An actor's portrayal of someone in a play

Usage examples of persona.

Giovane ancora ed avvenente della persona, il principe prevenuto della reputazione meritamente stabilita delle venete bellezze, non mancava di certo prurito, di certo desiderio di voler fare una conquista.

Time and again Lot had urged her to trance, to block out all sensation from her body, to let her core persona coast in an atrial blind cave, where the air would be as cool as she desired.

Then he died, was reborn -- after a fashion -- as a cybrid persona, and died again as a man.

Planck-space transit and humans need never have learned of the experiments if other elements of the Core had not revealed this fact to the first John Keats cybrid persona four centuries ago -- but I agree with those humans and those Core elements who consider this act as unethical, a violation of privacy.

They devised the cybrid creature known as John Keats -- a human personality imbedded in an AI persona carried in a human body connected to the Core via Planck-space interface.

Dramatis Personae might have a dodgy reputation, but no one had ever accused them of killing a member of the audience.

But now her original self and the false persona were both gone, swept aside by Jenny Psycho, who had been touched by greatness, her esp boosted beyond hope or reason.

Jim Conyers explained about hoaxes in fandom, and how a fan might assume several personas in letter writing, since early fans seldom met.

Il mendico teneva avvolto intorno alla persona lo sdruscito mantello tanto da nascondere anche la parte inferiore del viso ma alle scarse sembianze che rimanevano svelate scoprivasi una di quelle fisonomie che vedute una volta ti restano impresse per tutta la vita.

The wise old immortal gunned down by the out-of-town thug, just because he happened to take on the persona of a murderous fugitive?

The writer said that the slanderers had got the ears of the king, and that I was no longer a persona grata at Court, as he had been assured that the Parisians had burnt me in effigy for my absconding with the lottery money, and that I had been a strolling player in Italy and little better than a vagabond.

El movimiento de la hamaca es igual al vuelo, porque la persona esta suspendida en el aire como un pajaro.

But now as she gazed into him she thought she saw some spark there, and a more horrible possibility occurred to her: Hauck was not out of his mind, not insane, his persona not erased.

Armenian Foundation Library, right near the onion-domed Watertown Arsenal, Poor Tony Krause hunched forward in a stall in his ghastly suspenders and purloined cap, his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands, getting a whole new perspective on time and the various passages and personae of time.

She herself was maintaining her silk-blouse-and-pink-nails persona, just as she had for several other keyboardist auditions, but Devi did not appear to notice such superficialities.