stock character
Example Sentences
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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.
From New York Times • May 24, 2023
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
The quality and variety of the stories told in them are both very considerable, even without making allowance for what has been called the stock character of mediæval composition.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
