Her strength, speed, and precision enabled her to perform Balanchine's works with an aplomb and relish beyond the reach of most Russian-trained dancers, while her radiant persona, pinpoint control, and famously pliant spine empowered explorations of new dramatic possibilities in such classic roles as the title character in Adolphe Adam's Giselle.
It's believed that the persona was controlled by an individual tied to Russian intelligence.
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.
Generation V members create multiple, often anonymous, personae to control relevant information flow into the community and businesses.
Rather than keep his persona under careful control, he risked naïveté and earnest anger.
Speaking in the wondering and adorable tones of a loved and privileged girl -- "Did you know, you can tell how lucky you're going to be when you look at those little white spots on your nails?" -- Ms. Gien adopts the persona that will control more than half the evening.
I did not outgrow this arrogant, controlling persona until college.
The persona can be controlled, but the anima often cannot.
It is not a scene that one might expect as the entry to the home of a client such as Anna Wintour, well-known for her rather controlled persona.
The real Dylan (to my mind, the best Dylan) is the one who presents himself as a national bard, a keeper of myth, but whose music, closely observed, is the extension of a tightly controlled persona.
