stock character
Example Sentences
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It’s a balance she strikes most astutely on “Good Wife,” on which she’s torn between thinking that title role is a worthy goal and seeing it as a tragic stock character.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Jharrel Jerome does what he can to add some shading to Smush, to make this stock character his own.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2020
Besson’s filmography mirrors the descent of this stock character so precisely, it could well all be his fault.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2019
That left pretty much just the face, which was all Rubens would have been interested in: a stock character for future works.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2017
But that was evidently a convenient quotation of a stock character in controversy, just as πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο was even more commonly.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
