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Example sentences for "persona"

Lexicographically close words:
persistently; persisting; persists; persolvere; person; personable; personae; personage; personages; personal
  1. Article 23(h) seems to require the Signatory Powers to the convention concerned to legislate for the abolition of an enemy's disability to sustain a persona standi in judicio.

  2. To do so, he spun a gigantic web of irony controlled by a persona whose complex purpose was concealed by a mien of hyper-righteousness.

  3. This is in many ways the same persona who barely suppressed his guffaws in the earlier work.

  4. But though the persona could not accept Whiston's program, he was not a mere negativist.

  5. After being protected for a long time by all the twists and turns of his creator's irony, the persona finally reveals himself for what he is, a man totally insolent and totally without remorse.

  6. He told me what a fruitless year and a half he had had there and how he was made to feel he was persona non grata.

  7. He became persona non grata to the council and charges were preferred against him.

  8. Kirkwood was successful, and those men who had sought his defeat were, naturally, persona non grata with the state government.

  9. For an unacceptable individual he is to the farmer,--persona non grata, as kings say of ambassadors who do not please their majesties.

  10. This was sufficient reason to believe that he would not support Van Buren's candidate, and that his predilections would incline him to take a President from the North, provided Adams was persona grata to the old Federalists.

  11. The former secretary of war had not mustered with the Free-soilers, but his attitude at Baltimore made him persona non grata to Dickinson.

  12. A note informs us that this was originally sung by 'Messer Braccio Ugolino, attore di detta persona d' Orfeo.

  13. I had never called on him, as he was not a 'persona grata' to the king or his relations.

  14. The Head of our Military Mission, Hanbury-Williams, was a persona gratissima with the Emperor.

  15. The dramatis persona are as follows:--[See Page Image] On the news of the death of Mithridates the inhabitants of Nymphaea deliver up the keys of the town to his son Sifares.

  16. This lady was a much poorer actress, but was a persona grata with Monsieur Hostein.

  17. Distrusting his own powers of persuasion, he enlisted the good offices of Barbier, the late partner of the Rue des Marais printing-house, who was a persona grata with the novelist.

  18. Consequently Pope, who insists on standards of excellence, is seen by the persona as the great enemy of modern poets.

  19. Miller adopts the persona of a modern Grub Street poet who scorns the classical values.

  20. Lighter offences committed by the lord could not give rise to prosecution, but the persona standi in iudicio was admitted in a general way even in this case.

  21. There is a fellow-countryman of yours here in Mecco who is persona grata with the Authorities," said Villele, "but he is rather a dark horse.

  22. What is true of the doctor is also true of the lawyer known to be persona grata to the government.

  23. The persona created is that of a woman who always tells the truth as she sees it, but it is made clear to the reader that what the narrator sees is very seldom exactly the objective truth.

  24. The passive verb has the ablative for its agent (persona agente); e.

  25. Special correspondents telegraphing to influential foreign newspapers, particularly if they were English and American newspapers, were always persona gratissima with German dignitaries, even of the blood royal.

  26. Once again the gates leading out of Germany seemed barred to me, for my status at the German Foreign Office, as the afternoon had established, was not exactly that of a persona grata who had but to ask a favor to have it granted.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persona" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    personal character; personal characteristics; personal communication; personal consciousness; personal estate; personal experiences; personal freedom; personal history; personal immortality; personal influence; personal interest; personal liberty; personal magnetism; personal matters; personal name; personal names; personal nature; personal pronoun; personal pronouns; personal recollections; personal relations; personal religion; personal responsibility; personal service; personal services; personal staff