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
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
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 Brereton, Cloudesley Shovell Henry
