| But if reality has become porous and unstable, Rushdie is not simply celebrating the protean, metamorphic nature of things. |
| George Orwell once described England as a protean creature, stretching ceaselessly into the past, forever changing, forever the same. |
| Becky, as director and actor have conceived her, is a protean character who seems to alter with each costume change. |
| Augustine is a protean thinker, a man whose major works range so widely as to defy the summary and commentary we can present for Athanasius. |
| Rembrandt was a protean artist, creating a Shakespearean range of subject and mood in his paintings, drawings and etchings. |
| But Stravinsky was – like his great contemporary Picasso – a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. |
