Word: protean
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...accepted a professorship in the Law School in 1910, after teaching law at Nebraska, Northwestern and Chicago Universities. He became dean of the school in 1916. Last June, when the University gave him the honorary degree or LL.D., he was described by President Lowell as "judge, teacher and writer, protean in interest; vindicator of the expansive power of the common law, who has also taken all jurisprudence as his province and mastered it." Dean Pound is also a distinguished botanist...
There is nothing in the world more elusive than culture. One cannot define or circumscribe it, for it has no precise bounds. One cannot analyze it, for its components are infinite. One cannot describe it, for it is Protean in shape. An attempt to encompass its meaning in words is like trying to seize the air in the hand, when one finds it is everywhere except within one's grasp. Culture is like what the ancient Hebrews called wisdom in that it has no fixed habitation, but is all-pervading and imponderable in its essence. Everyone who has experienced...
...They are Protean in their natures," my guide replied. "They can assume any form, counterfeit any emotion, mock any expressions of feeling. Thus it is that they deceptively adapt themselves to the world, and their duplicity is never discovered. Too many there are that are like this author, but they are growing less and less in number. Silently the celestial policemen, among whom I am one, are carrying them to their reward. They are called the Lotos-Eaters of Earth.- But the East is brightening; the day is near. I must be away...
...olive-brown, bronze, protean-hued, aesthetic plush costume of the lady violin soloist at the symphony concert Wednesday evening, was exquisitely precious...
...Subtle Protean form; illimitable...