How to Use dramatis personae in a Sentence

dramatis personae

plural noun

• The back of each zine includes an index with the species’ names, like a dramatis personae.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2020
• But can't the dramatis personae at least try to conceal themselves in the hide-and-seek garden scene?
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2019
• Thrilling though the dramatis personae may have been, the protagonist came to a sad end.
  — Peter Nicholas, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019
• Zeller is not the first director to jumble his dramatis personae, and to maintain a cool composure in the process.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
• Despite Melle’s deep cuts — including to the dramatis personae — the plot is left pretty intact.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• What the evening lacked was theatrical electricity from, and among, the dramatis personae.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Readers could be assumed to know much of the background and the dramatis personae already; no need to spend much time introducing Tony Fauci.
  — Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• The dramatis personae of the novel are listed at the start, with shorthand descriptions normally reserved for plays.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• The book opens with a dramatis personae of sorts — a list of 10 millennials who have had early political success, all of whom Alter has interviewed.
  — Danielle Kurtzleben, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• The dramatis personae look in different directions, nursing their own thoughts.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Even as conspiracy theories play at spider-web vastness, their dramatis personae are as compact as a tag-team match.
  — Robin Sloan, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
• The exhibition’s opening room features a wall full of reproduced portraits introducing the dramatis personae in the Nabi artworks, enabling viewers to keep track of who’s in love with whom, and who’s having a bad day.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 July 2021
• Lined up in tubs were the dramatis personae: gerbera daisies, alstroemerias, leucadendrons, thistles, bear grass, sweet william.
  — Michael Schulma, The New Yorker, 31 July 2021
• Neither her laugh nor her dramatis personae are merely for entertainment, though.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• Wulf and her publishers have gone several extra miles to help the reader keep them all straight: informative chapter titles, a careful index, and a dramatis personae with minibiographies.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Speaking of which, Walton even put together a commemorative playlist, the range of which mirrors the amiable mutability of her dramatis personae.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2022
• The chapters on the quantitative revolution in professional sports scouting and gambling are more lively, with more loving attention to the dramatis personae.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2012
• The dramatis personae of this investigation are thus numerous, high-profile, monied and multi-national.
  — Nick Hewlett, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
• In segments written by Tom Abernathy, Natasha serves as host, introducing situations and dramatis personae, and interacting with the audience.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2021
• Its title gives away little, but the accompanying list of dramatis personae provides several hints, including characters named Seward, Lucy, Harker, and van Helsing.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024