What's the difference between demeanor and persona?

Demeanor


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Management; treatment; conduct.
  • (v. t.) Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her strategy was fairly simple: show Trump as not fit for the presidency, defend herself without seeming defensive or evasive and, most important, maintain the demeanor of an all-but-president.
  • (2) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
  • (3) Sodium bicarbonate solution administered intravenously effectively raised blood pH and improved demeanor, ambulation and appetite.
  • (4) Rebecca Martinez (@BeckyGMartinez) Romney's demeanor feels stronger...and given that Americans don't listen to actual words, this is a problem for Obama #debates October 4, 2012 Updated at 4.18am BST 3.13am BST Oh great Mitt Romney has another list!
  • (5) Carson, whose mild demeanor and provocative commentary have propelled him ahead of Trump in the early-voting state of Iowa , cited “the many stories of people who have led very useful lives who were the result of rape or incest”.
  • (6) I’m not running against him or against anyone else.” How long Rubio can maintain the sunny demeanor that has personified his candidacy thus far is unclear.
  • (7) Boehner was referring to a Wall Street Journal report quoting an unnamed "senior administration official" as saying: “We are winning…It doesn’t really matter to us” how long the shutdown lasts “because what matters is the end result.” Boehner says he's known for his affable demeanor and fair-mindedness.
  • (8) But those very same qualities could also overshadow the former first lady , whom some regard as lacking a personable and relatable demeanor.
  • (9) And the conspiracy theorists also have pictures of a third person – someone whose general demeanor and outfit make the theorists believe he is an officer of some sort of military or militarised organisation – with just that kind of black backpack with a white square on its handle that can also be seen in the second set of photographs.
  • (10) As he speaks, he guides hospital beds through doors with the relaxed demeanor that comes after 30 years removing bullets, suturing knife wounds and watching people live or die on his watch.
  • (11) Short, energetic and with a sunny demeanor, he is fond of button-up shirts in muted colours and khakis.
  • (12) For the first time, the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropped his blank, impassive demeanor on Monday and cried as his sobbing aunt briefly took the stand in his federal death penalty trial, before she was asked to step down and compose herself.
  • (13) The Australian’s on court demeanor has attracted praise and opprobrium in equal measure, split between those who think the game needs more characters and those who find his behaviour unbecoming.
  • (14) His Facebook profile showed him pictured with others at Disney World, with the caption: “True friends who become family.” High school friend Eddi Anderson told the Tampa Bay Times that Vielma was known for his pleasant attitude and warm demeanor.
  • (15) Given Romney's affable demeanor in the first debate, the contrast could be considerable.
  • (16) New Jersey’s Christie has the lowest favourability rating of any candidate except Trump - a product of his in-your-face demeanor – and faces possible indictment over his involvement inthe so-called Bridgegate scandal.
  • (17) Even clad in casual clothing and past retirement age, she retained a businesslike demeanor.
  • (18) Such dramatics can be observed not only in the demeanor of neurotics, but also in their symptoms.
  • (19) Zuley’s demeanor all changed, Boyd says, after he agreed to let the detective search his apartment: Zuley returned to the interrogation room, Boyd remembered, using racial epithets.
  • (20) In pursuing diagnostic procedures, the behavioral adjustment and responsiveness of the child during the examination proceedings may be optimally managed through an appropriate atmosphere and demeanor.

Persona


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Person, n., 8.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (2) Prince was named after his father's own stage persona, and when his parents split up he became determined to better his dad on piano.
  • (3) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (4) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (5) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (6) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
  • (7) "For us he is persona non grata," said Panos Kammenos, leader of the vociferously anti-austerity Independent Greeks party as the 300-seat house debated the job losses.
  • (8) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
  • (9) So convincing is this act – if indeed it is an act – that I became intrigued: was the “real” Lee quite as prickly as his performance persona?
  • (10) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
  • (11) In the book’s preface , Hager explains how Key was desperate to continue his success by constructing a charming public persona while pursuing “ more personal attacks and negative politics than any in living memory.” I asked Hager to tell me more: It is about political PR and particularly what the US Republican party strategists have called a two-track approach.
  • (12) De La Rosa mapped out what he saw as the dramatis personae of execution in Juárez.
  • (13) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (14) I’m talking about persona, I’m not talking about look,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday morning.
  • (15) Walker also began the summer as a strong favorite in the early-voting state of Iowa, where voters seemed inherently drawn to his midwestern persona and retail politics – which have often included traversing from one county to the next on a Harley Davidson.
  • (16) Even before the verdict the court case shattered Harris's public persona as a cuddly family entertainer, one maintained over six decades of stardom.
  • (17) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
  • (18) Even then, analysts who should investigate the link between the business and its persona seem swept away by utopian dreams and look where the company suggests they should be looking (mainly the future.)
  • (19) The enforced absence of Karim Benzema, deemed persona non grata for his alleged role in the “sextape” scandal, and the sad disappearance of Mathieu Valbuena, the only true victim of the affair, mean that Didier Deschamps has been obliged to do what many hoped he would do to start with: put his trust in youth, particularly up front.
  • (20) These statements reveal outrageous malevolence regarding the values that define this European Union and, if pronounced by an official representative of the United States, they would have the potential to undermine seriously the transatlantic relationship that has, for the past 70 years, essentially contributed to peace, stability and prosperity on our continent.” Trump's focus on UK trade could sideline EU, Democrats fear Read more A letter from the leader of the Socialists and Democrats group, Gianni Pittella, describes Malloch’s statements as “shocking” and urges the EU institutions to treat him as a “persona non grata”.