archetype

Hiding behind the colorful Southern archetype that she described as “overdone” was a renaissance woman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

The original features “an all-American archetype of a virtuous family pitted against a monster,” while Scorsese depicted a “broken and dysfunctional family and the monster is even more extreme, he’s like a swamp creature.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Charles Murray used Fishtown as his archetype for the decline of the working class in his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was as if instead of entering a house she was entering the idea of a house, some archetype brought to life here before her.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

That was a way of getting a bit of Christie in because she does so well showing you what’s beneath the facade of all these archetypes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“And it’s just interesting to me that those archetypes are so rarely women and candidates of color.”

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 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

The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

He imagined a world of real existences, invisible, incorporeal, eternal, grasped only by thought, prior to the objects of the physical universe, and the models or archetypes of them.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich