archetype
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The horrible-boss archetype has been a Hollywood trope for generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The movie has invented its own intuitive archetype, so that now they all find themselves saying, “That’s so ‘wrong girls’” in certain situations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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
Many of the AI country tunes tap into the genre's archetype of the lone cowboy: a rugged, taciturn, plain-spoken man who, above all, refuses to apologize for simply existing.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
But for anyone who's more familiar with the strict-foreign-parent archetype in popular culture, let's break down the stereotypes associated with Persian moms and dads.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
If the box office is a fair, measurable indicator of how the public feels about these superhero archetypes, guess what?
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
The sessions went so well that Morali asked Willis to front the group, which adopted campy archetypes of masculinity — cop, cowboy and construction worker among them — in their stage costumes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
That fossils are mere models and archetypes, is his hypothesis, not theirs; and so it is he himself who is answerable, not they, for what he deems the impiety of the archetypal dung.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
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