stock character
Example Sentences
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The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022
When I was working, I wasn't happy because I was playing stock character parts.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2021
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
Horvath never becomes much more than a stock character, an unfulfilled mid-century suburban husband.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2019
And what is most comic of all is to become a category oneself into which others will fall, as into a ready-made frame; it is to crystallise into a stock character.
From Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry
