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(adjective) of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms / (adjective) displaying great diversity or variety; versatile

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Neoliberalism is a protean project, not reducible to a single blueprint or institutional architecture, or achievable by a single pathway.

—p.85 The French Road to Neoliberalism (83) by Chris Howell
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You may understand the combinational principles of such a protean game, but you cannot experience it yourself.

—p.184 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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11 months ago


Author of a protean oeuvre, in which reference to theology plays a key role, Agamben is influenced by thinkers such as Heidegger

—p.134 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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7 years, 1 month ago


In this fraught and protean political culture, the pride and shame of the oppressed are inextricable.

—p.26 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville
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An uneasiness, a dangerous ill temper escalated among soldiers, workers, and, most dramatically, peasants. For the most part it did not, yet, take explicitly politicised forms, but it was protean, destructive and very often violent.

—p.132 May: Collaboration (127) by China Miéville
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7 years, 1 month ago


his literary voice was so protean (variable, mutable, _labile)

—p.ii Foreword (ii) by Rick Moody
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7 years, 1 month ago


towards a limitless protean malleability contingent only on the state of technological change

—p.218 None Shall Pass: Trans and the Rewriting of the Body (217) by Richard Seymour
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the transcendent nature of sex -- its opportunities for cross-cultural communication, its ability to rise above the specifics of language and embrace the universal with its protean physicality

—p.80 French Kissing in the USA (75) by Graham Caveney
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every "real" thing in the world was as shabbily protean, underneath, as this electric chair

—p.315 by Jonathan Franzen
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In the gallery of the old photographs she was always the same, staring out, while everyone else seemed disgracefully, protean, kaftaned Messiahs, sideburned Zapatas.

—p.8 by Martin Amis
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Appiah’s is a protean, rigorous, generous, and elegant mind

—p.153 The Art of Nonfiction No. 10 (150) missing author
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2 years, 8 months ago


failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning

—p.109 "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication (93) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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7 years, 4 months ago


Silicon Valley is far from the first society sprouting from protean quests.

—p.327 Seventh Interlude: Limits Are For Mortals (325) by Jaron Lanier
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7 years ago


Marx writes wonderfully in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of the protean, shape-changing, alchemical nature of money

—p.122 Chapter Five (107) by Terry Eagleton
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7 years, 1 month ago