archetype
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The unifying archetype of the femme fatale, however, elevated Laferte’s songbook to a new level of cinematic noir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Charles Murray used Fishtown as his archetype for the decline of the working class in his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
In part, this archetype, as Fiedler dubs it, reflects our literature’s recurrent failure to deal honestly with adult heterosexual love and its attendant responsibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
The new warehouse chief looked like the Englishman archetype Obinze carried in his mind, tall and spare, sandy-haired and blue-eyed.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The sessions went so well that Morali asked Willis to front the group, which adopted campy archetypes of masculinity — cop, cowboy and construction worker among them — in their stage costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
As both the new “Vanderpump” and the still-shuttered “RHONY” suggest, viewers don’t come to Bravo’s programming for character archetypes and pervasive yet incomprehensible “drama.”
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
It seems to contain in it the potentiality of all thoughts, and to stream in upon us from some Platonic "beyond-world" where the high secret archetypes of all created forms sleep in their primordial simplicity.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
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