protean
متلون
definition
adjective
it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject
tending or able to change frequently or easily.
translation of 'protean'
adjective
متلون
example
Born in 1948, he remains for many the heir to Gabin and Belmondo, a versatile, 'protean' actor whose rugged looks are belied by his sensitivity and talent.
Such values are flexible, 'protean' in nature, varying even from film to film.
This is not an easy task, not least because the distance on their subjects that historians value is not realizable when examining a subject as 'protean' as globalization, and one that is both now expressing itself and still changing.
Such contradictions generally enhance the text, for they present an attractive 'protean' self, one willing to learn and change when confronted with new knowledge.
We are all in search of ways of approaching this 'protean' subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
However, I am pursuing a different sense of the 'protean' term Machiavellian in what follows.
Sexuality appears to be a 'protean' , shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is 'protean' and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even 'protean' .
Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the 'protean' life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
These served to introduce a group of works from the 1940s, mainly not exhibited at the Addison, but characteristic of the 'protean' , notoriously late blooming painter's many guises.
George Orwell once described England as a 'protean' creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same.
Rembrandt was a 'protean' artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings.
His 'protean' ability to assume different roles in his poems is often described as theatrical.
The emergent self is 'protean' , shifting, cunning, humorous, unencumbered, sometimes angry, but equally capable of accepting its own absurdity and inconsequentiality.
Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a 'protean' character who seems to alter with each costume change.
Nature is more 'protean' than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
They begin by turning the motion on its head, asserting that a reactive foreign policy dangerously ignores the reality of a post cold war world in which the lines of conflict have become 'protean' and subject to unpredictable change.
His respect for ‘evidence’ is both an acknowledgment of its multifaceted and 'protean' nature and an expression of gratitude for the materials it supplies.
Just as the actor animated different trappings in different situations in the same play, and in different plays at different times, the soul animated the 'protean' body through all its changes.
He never lets his learning cloud his enthusiasm for this wide and 'protean' subject and his writing shares the awe of the poets who preceded him on this journey.
It is a 'protean' creature, an uncertain character capable of fluctuating under pressure.
But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the 'protean' , metamorphic nature of things.
This internally inconsistent narrative derives its 'protean' fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
Augustine is a 'protean' thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius.
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