Sentence examples for a complex persona from inspiring English sources

Contrary to what was for decades perceived to be the prescribed project of radical feminism, namely the depiction of womens' victimization with an actress or role defying the pleasure of men, Burkhart elaborates a complex persona who knows that the pleasure of heterosexual women come in sharing the pleasure of men.

These early life experiences he mythologized into a complex persona, often referring to himself as part savage.

But like his personas, they reflect a complex character, part George Clinton, part Marquis de Sade.

But what distinguished Drake was a sense of shameless guile, a confidence in his complex persona that was due partly to his background as an actor.

Second: Pessoa: A Vision (Perdika Press) a slim volume by Simon Jenner which does that extraordinary thing, evokes the complex persona of an earlier poet who took on a hundred different heteronyms.

He is entranced by Rosario Flores's Lydia, particularly her exotically complex persona as a female bullfighter.

With her first two albums, "Whoa, Nelly!" in 2000 and "Folklore" in 2003 (both on DreamWorks), Ms. Furtado started building a complex pop persona.

In paintings, she dovetails the figures of Sita from the "Ramayana" and Medea -- the one an ideal of submissive self-sacrifice, the other an emblem of destructive fury -- to propose a complex female persona beyond controlling stereotypes.

The movie defines the violent, complex persona that would make Marvin a star, and he's cast alongside the irresistibly alluring Angie Dickinson, anticipating the femme fatale role she plays opposite Marvin's remorseless avenger in John Boorman's Point Blank.

Nixon's highly complex persona also has led to books that probe his psyche--a hazardous and widely debunked practice, though that hasn't discouraged further attempts.

His circus series seems to reflect his curious and complex persona best.