Such detached traits, however, do not necessarily indicate that a culture is shamanistic, as the central personalities in such systems—sorcerers, medicine men or healers, and the like may, unlike the shaman, have attained their position through deliberate study and the application of rational knowledge.
He was one of the central personalities of the Lazic War (541 562).
Like the Dublin of Joyce's "Ulysses," the city itself becomes a central personality of the book.
In what stands out as the most surreal moment of Venezuela's presidential campaign — a race whose central personality is the deceased president — Mr. Maduro told the nation that Mr. Chávez's spirit came to him as a tiny bird that flew into a chapel where he was praying.
Olbermann was heavily promoted by the cable network as its central personality when he arrived in early 1999 to lead the attempt to challenge "Sports Centers" late-night sports news domination.
The aim of this article is to highlight the central role personality has for health psychology.
Idol's creator and its central personality, Simon Cowell, made his final appearance on the show Wednesday night.
Like its predecessors, it featured a central personality, OutKast musician Andre 3000, a neophyte traipsing along the campaign trail and receiving a political education--here from the likes of scholar Cornel West and the Bush daughters (the latter of whom discuss their favorite food: "beans!").
And one missed that sine qua non of successful revue: a gripping, outgoing central personality for whose every entrance one waits and on whose every word one devotedly hangs.
But a recent study by Magnhagen and Staffan (Behav Ecol Sociobiol 57 295 303, 2005) on young perch in small groups showed that boldness, a central personality trait, is also shaped by social interactions and by previous experience.
