Sentence examples for key personages from inspiring English sources

Sharon Thesen (The Beginning of the Long Dash, 1987; Aurora, 1995; A Pair of Scissors, 2001) and Don McKay (Field Marks, 2006) spin evocative poems out of historical events, key personages, the natural world, and the quotidian.

Readers began putting real names to the personages and compiling keys to them, but La Bruyère denied that any was a portrait of a single person.

They are these massive and archaic personages which are, for the Douanier Rousseau, key symbols absolutely necessary to his creativity.

Grains et issues was accompanied by Personage d'insomnie ("Personage of Insomnia"), which went unpublished.

When, for the fullest appreciation of a work of fiction, it is necessary for the reader to consult the real-life personages and events that inspired it, then the work is a roman à clef, a novel that needs a key.

The two personages size each other up.

What, then, of the personages involved?

There are also some reliably droll personages.

They are personages, beings, ghosts - they live.

One of these royal personages did not really exist.

"Nob" is an informal term for aristocratic, wealthy, influential personages.