This has given rise to the suggestion that he is a transitional figure at the museum, actually seeking another role in Government.

He is considered an important transitional figure leading to future generations of Danish artists.

He was then 74, seemingly too old to be anything but a transitional figure.

In time, we may come to see Gorbachev as a transitional figure.

She is deemed an important transitional figure between old and new Singapore.

Hicks is a transitional figure between old and new Singapore.

The species seemed to have all the marks of a key transitional figure in human evolution.

"In the merger, he certainly appears to be a transitional figure."

He is remembered as a largely benign transitional figure in modern Chinese political history.

But whether he will be more than a transitional figure is uncertain.