archetype
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“I can’t think of any archetype of man that fits that description more today than capital allocators that put it all on the line every day in the markets.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The unifying archetype of the femme fatale, however, elevated Laferte’s songbook to a new level of cinematic noir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
When it was time for my solo outing, I chose an archetype much closer to my heart: the cozy crime solver.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
In part, this archetype, as Fiedler dubs it, reflects our literature’s recurrent failure to deal honestly with adult heterosexual love and its attendant responsibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
And now I wish I hadn't said anything about this archetype dude because I hate looking up stuff in his stupid dictionary.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
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“A lot of them were exploring otherness and self-discovery through the archetypes of the genre because it was a way to express it at a time when those ideas were taboo,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
In his telling, two distinct social archetypes rooted in the era of England’s 17th-century civil war—the Cavalier and the Puritan—were symbolized by the ships of his title, the White Lion and the Mayflower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The personnel we follow in “The Pitt” are archetypes, while J.D.,
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
"Despite both athletes sharing similar racial backgrounds and first-generation immigrant experiences," Prof He says, "they have been cast as opposing archetypes in a narrative they didn't write".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
Titian's courtesans are our archetypes of dignified womanhood; we might fancy Portia or Isabella with such calm, florid beauty, so wholly unmeretricious and uncankered.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Vernon Lee
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