archetypal
Example Sentences
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Archetypal endings can also be twisted to great effect.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2013
Archetypal and specific, good and bad, Disney is, in other words, an ideal operatic character.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2013
A Theory of Archetypal Ingénues and Third-Wave Feminists in Their Youth“Pretty Woman” and “Thelma and Louise” flanked my first postcollege year like a couple of quick-draw gunfighters in a Wild West showdown.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2011
Archetypal Dowser MacLean, who still works as a chemical engineer in Portland, claims he can divine the arrival of oil tankers even when they are still far beyond the horizon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Archetypal Idea was manifested in the flesh under divers modifications upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species which actually exemplify it.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
Vocabulary lists containing archetypal
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