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
When I was working, I wasn't happy because I was playing stock character parts.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2021
“He’s also very funny. It could have been a stock character but the writers were smart enough to craft a character that could show all the colors that Glynn has.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 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 Gracieuse et Percinet is of an essentially "stock" character is not in the least against it, for so it ought to be: and the "stock" company that plays its parts plays them well.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
