In his personations of Hamlet, Iago, and Cato, Mr. Vandenhoff is also preeminently great, if not unequalled.
We can give the reader no better idea of his ability and manner, than by saying, that he effects all with his pen which POWER achieves in his admirable personations of his countrymen.
This left me free to study the manifestations purely as materializations, or personations by the medium.
The whole thing lay in a nutshell: either the forms appearing were confederates, or personations by the medium; perhaps both.
The forms that came from the cabinet were either personations by the medium, or they were what they purported to be--materializations.
These personations represent to the Hopi mind their idea of the appearance of these katchinas or clan ancients.
The spirit beings represented in these personations appear at certain times in the pueblo, dancing before spectators, receiving prayer for needed blessings, as rain and good crops.
It is an almost universal idea of primitive man," says Fewkes, "that prayers should be addressed to personations of the beings worshipped.
All these personations were unusually fine, but the actors could not always merge themselves in the characters, because there was always the partition of theatrical necessities and precedents in the way.
We are accustomed to compare the personationsof other actors.
If we accept his abstract personations merely as the names, and not the qualities of the dramatic personages, "Magnificence" approaches to the true vein of comedy.
In those personations which he has long since made his own, he displayed the same excellence which ever characterized his performance.
This fact sufficiently bespeaks the character of the personations of these two popular performers.
She went through her personations timidly, the wild forest her background, the open air and blue Straits her scenery.
Her ideas of Juliet, of Ophelia, of Rosalind, and Cleopatra were her own, and she never varied them; the very earnestness of her personations made the effect all the more extraordinary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
