protean

How To Use protean In A Sentence

• The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
• Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with. Hamster; Dance – The Bleat.
• 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.
• Protean-like kings, these people raise and they may likewise level.
• The borders of this new world will remain protean, subject to change over time. The New World Order
• Nature is more protean than Bacon dreamed: Proteus merely assumes different shapes; nature shifts between whole realities.
• The drama takes place at noon, motionless noon crouched into negative capability, when the world is worlding, and forms pulse in a combinative protean grammar. The Best American Poetry 2008
• Traditionally, the tempurature of Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) is predigested as invariableness and uniformity, but the protean and unhomogeneity of tempurature are rarely involved.
• We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
• He is a protean stylist who can move from blues to ballads and grand symphony.