Sentence examples for personation from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Following a report of possible personation at a polling station in Glasgow this evening, police are working with electoral staff and inquiries are continuing".
Four voters have taken legal action against him over a series of allegations, including personation in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering.
Later paintings like "A Man From the Desert" (1941), "Kokopelli" (1942), a fertility god, and "Kokopelli With Snow" (1942) move beyond the depiction of doll-figures into something more complicated; Mr. Rushing describes "Kokopelli With Snow" as a "painting of a sculpture of a performative personation of an ancestral spirit".
He describes, subtly and with suggestive insight, the development of acting away from rhetoric towards what Thomas Heywood called "personation" (individual characterisation), and how Shakespeare's art and the art of acting developed in a dialectical relationship to each other.
Certain customs also have enjoyed wide acceptance; for example, the role of trophy heads, the use of masked personations, and winter solstice New Fire ceremonies.
