stock character

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Likewise, underneath your CMO’s gendered moniker is a stock character we’ve seen throughout history in various guises: an arrogant, delusional, hypercritical bully, devoid of self-awareness or empathy, using a bombastic personality to either charm followers or bludgeon dissenters.

From Washington Post

Merely a stock character from what Lewis’s friend and mentor H.L.

From New York Times

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

One day, the director of the Perry Street Theater, knowing of his training in commedia dell’arte, asked him to make a mask for the stock character Arlecchino, also called Harlequin.

From New York Times

When I was working, I wasn't happy because I was playing stock character parts.

From Salon