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

No one embodied the rot of the Eastside politico more than Huizar — and no one better personifies why this political stock character must finally die.

From Los Angeles Times

The actress even injects new life into a sci-fi stock character — the alien whose connection to emotion is theoretical.

From New York Times

The distress of such critics, as Mr. Kriegel was well aware, was hardly surprising: They would have much preferred him to play the role of the stock character he called the “Charity Cripple” — epitomized by pliant, pitiable literary figures like Dickens’s Tiny Tim.

From New York Times

DiDi, whose world was filled with bad sex, sleazy men, cocktails and extravagant decorating, was a sendup of a certain kind of suburban stock character, but she was rendered with both affection and compassion.

From New York Times