protean
ప్రోటియన్
definition
adjective
it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject
tending or able to change frequently or easily.
example
Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive 'protean' self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
Such values are flexible, 'protean' in nature, varying even from film to film.
His 'protean' ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.
Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a 'protean' character who seems to alter with each costume change.
He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and 'protean' subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey.
This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as 'protean' as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing.
George Orwell once described England as a 'protean' creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
We are all in search of ways of approaching this 'protean' subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
The emergent self is 'protean' , shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the 'protean' body through all its changes.
Sexuality appears to be a 'protean' , shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even 'protean' .
The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is 'protean' and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
Nature is more 'protean' than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the 'protean' life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and 'protean' nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies.
Rembrandt was a 'protean' artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the 'protean' , metamorphic nature of things.
However, I am pursuing a different sense of the 'protean' term Machiavellian in what follows.
Augustine is a 'protean' thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, 'protean' actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent.
They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become 'protean' and subject to unpredictable change.
These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the 'protean' , notoriously late blooming painter's many guises.
It is a 'protean' creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure.
This internally inconsistent narrative derives its 'protean' fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
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