archetype

Like many of her peers, Smart-McCabe grew up envisioning home gardeners as conforming to a very particular archetype: usually wealthy, often white and always women.

The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.

Mr. Gould convincingly argues that the British Invasion encoded “a distinct strain of art-school sensibility into the archetype of a ‘rock group.’”

Gein’s simmering psychosis coupled with the barbarity of his crimes made him an ideal horror archetype.

At his September workshop, Stringer shrugged on the art teacher archetype like an old sweater.