archetype

Tesla is the modern archetype: a car company with much broader ambitions and a never-ending story about vast success on the way…soon.

Like many of her peers, Smart-McCabe grew up envisioning home gardeners as conforming to a very particular archetype: usually wealthy, often white and always women.

The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.

Mr. Gould convincingly argues that the British Invasion encoded “a distinct strain of art-school sensibility into the archetype of a ‘rock group.’”

Gein’s simmering psychosis coupled with the barbarity of his crimes made him an ideal horror archetype.