Examples of persona

• As it emerged in the first years of the twentieth century, his scenario presented him in different national personas.

• These partners viewed the person's ' dysfunctional ' behaviours as indicating helplessness and confusion rather than seeing them as presentational cues to the person's preferred persona.

• There are hints, however, that help us to associate the vocal persona with the fluctuating emotions in the accompaniment.

• This delicate relationship could all too easily have been destroyed through the application of an unsympathetic performance persona.

• Rock singers are actors, after all - they portray the persona represented as speaking through the song lyrics and different personae through different songs.

• In the next stanza she takes on the persona of a victim who wakes up to find flood waters at her door, preventing her escape.

• It was a persona both cultivated by her and thrust upon her.

• The judges are influenced by their upbringing, persona l prejudices, and all sorts of extralegal whatnot.