stock character
Example Sentences
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It’s a balance she strikes most astutely on “Good Wife,” on which she’s torn between thinking that title role is a worthy goal and seeing it as a tragic stock character.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
When I was working, I wasn't happy because I was playing stock character parts.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2021
“He’s also very funny. It could have been a stock character but the writers were smart enough to craft a character that could show all the colors that Glynn has.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
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
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 Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton
