And what do you think of Ayn Rand's protean figure John Galt, Mr Saatchi?

Matisse and Picasso are protean figures; we admire them as we admire obviously great things.

Mikey is created entirely with Flash technology; he stands out among the other protean figures here as the one who looks most consistent frame by frame.

The New York filmmaker, photographer and performance artist (1932-1989) was a protean figure and a hothouse exotic of a kind too seldom encountered today.

Mr. Parks is a protean figure.

Taylor was one of those protean figures who vex campus life - a perverse and provocative thinker, a guru and a troublemaker.

Edwin Muir described him as a protean figure, "whom we can all shape to our own liking".

Scarcely known two years ago, Mr. Lacroix is now a protean figure in the fashion world.

Or else they are dimly aware of a restless and protean figure who amid the ripening of a career sampled, and often mastered, other genres and styles.

Consistent Strategy: Saying Less Is Better By 1994, New Yorkers had wearied of Mr. Cuomo, the protean figure with the mile-wide agenda.