stock character
Example Sentences
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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
Because Neeson is so adept at rendering this stock character, he doesn’t always work very hard at it.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
“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
That Gracieuse et Percinet is of an essentially "stock" character is not in the least against it, for so it ought to be: and the "stock" company that plays its parts plays them well.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
