archetype

Hiding behind the colorful Southern archetype that she described as “overdone” was a renaissance woman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The country superstar, who died Tuesday at age 80, presented a charming Southern archetype behind which she was a media and musical powerhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

When it was time for my solo outing, I chose an archetype much closer to my heart: the cozy crime solver.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

The original features “an all-American archetype of a virtuous family pitted against a monster,” while Scorsese depicted a “broken and dysfunctional family and the monster is even more extreme, he’s like a swamp creature.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

And now I wish I hadn't said anything about this archetype dude because I hate looking up stuff in his stupid dictionary.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

The visuals, the action and the character archetypes were enough to figure things out and enjoy what you saw.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

This does not forbid us to ascribe the grace of his verse to an inward principle of poetry, which supplied him with archetypes of the beautiful and splendid to work by.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones