After his death, Dore Schary, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, said, "There can be no question that he was the best and most protean actor of our screen."

A little more than a century after they were invited, movies remain the most protean and surprising of the arts.

Mr. Marcus also has an eye for strong, simple visual effect, transforming the city's prettiest and most protean dance theater into an equally lovely but almost unrecognizable space.

The injunction has become the motto of iconoclastic directors itching to leave their mark on what may well be the most protean allegory in the Western canon.

Robert Palmer of The New York Times has lauded them as "probably the most protean and exciting new jazz band of the 1980's."

The past few days offered reminders both of how strong that bond remains, and how, in the most protean city in a changeable culture, it is inexorably weakening.

By sheer force of vision, the "Cremaster" opus shows the most protean imagination in art today.

But the history of this, perhaps the most protean, in its scale, of all my father's works, does not end here.

The World Saxophone Quartet has been praised as "probably the most protean and exciting new jazz band of the 1980's."

Theodorescu-Sion was probably the most protean Romanian oil painter.