"I believe a painting is successful when it has the power to not be a stagnant object but holds personality that can shift and keep you wondering and uncovering," Papademetropoulos says.
While these are personality traits, they are also deeply held personal philosophies of mine.
Yet his music held its personality when classically trained musicians performed it on Friday night as part of the Composer Portraits series at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
This is a striking result, since the conventional wisdom in psychology holds that personality is usually fixed by age thirty and thereafter is unlikely to substantially change.
Mrs. Helmsley's lawyer, Gerald A. Feffer, did not deny the truth of such testimony but told jurors not to hold her personality against her, saying, "I don't believe Mrs. Helmsley is charged in the indictment with being a bitch".
Romney's speech, which marked the culmination of a five-year quest for his party's nod, was at times personal, as the former Massachusetts governor responded to those who said he needed to show more of himself to narrow an advantage Obama holds in personality polls.
The characters in Every Man in His Humour are based on the four humours of medieval physiology, bodily fluids that were held to influence personality or temperament.
This latest uproar came about a month after prominent Republicans excoriated Mr. Obama for supporting the building of a mosque near ground zero and just a few weeks after Glenn Beck, the television personality, held his faith-based rally on the National Mall.
His personality held the Tamil Tigers together over the years, but his critics likened him to a cult figure grasping for power, and he is not known to have groomed a successor.
Since winning the national elections in 2008, Mr. Berlusconi has by force of personality held together an unruly and ideologically incoherent center-right coalition that includes the powerful Northern League, known for its strength in the north and its anti-immigrant stance, and the group led by Mr. Fini, who has said that immigrants are an asset to Italy.
