As Jacobs writes in "Her Own Woman," her "contradictory personality -- ardent, whiny, arrogant -- informs every passage".
Some of her best qualities are like the best of Broadway: an outsize personality, she is authoritative, ardent, funny and exhilarating.
He also offers suggestions on how best to deal with these cults of personality and their most ardent supporters.
"Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a polarizing personality motivated by personal ambition whose conservatism and nationalism threaten to stop the development of Poland," said Krzysztof Iszkowski, a senior member of Ruch Palikota, a leftist party opposing Mr. Kaczynski's ardent conservatism.
France's uneasy and occasionally loud confrontations with the world tend to obscure a national personality deeply private and peculiarly ardent in its veiled and melancholic way.
And that's not even counting all the extracurricular drama that attended the show in its rehearsals and previews -- tabloid tales of battling egos and last-minute fixes overseen by no less a personality than Rosie O'Donnell, its ardent co-producer.
This week's poem, Living, is a psychological meditation that is as fluid as Monro's personality, and gives voice both to the death-haunted depressive and the ardent, life-hungry idealist.
But Dick Cheney I don't know any more".In one way, the idea that Mr Cheney has undergone a personality change is unfair: he was always a belt-and-braces pessimist and an ardent conservative.
In "Le Brasier Ardent," however, Mosjoukine often suggests a Slavic Buster Keaton, with his deadpan performance, fascination with multiple personalities (Mosjoukine plays no fewer than 11 roles here), and skill in constructing complex, mechanical sight gags.
Yet for the president's most ardent supporters, the lack of results on his most prominent promises, and his hyperbole, may not matter given the cult of personality Trump has created around himself.
