trope
Example Sentences
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A triumphant return to the sound of her debut album, Abracadabra takes all the Lady Gaga tropes – Nonsense lyrics!
From BBC
Ms. Hannah stays faithful to Christie’s tropes—the Belgian Hercule, for instance, sometimes speaks English “the upside-down way of wrong around.”
Spy thrillers have also long featured prominently, often portraying Pakistan as the biggest threat to India - a familiar trope rooted in decades of geopolitical tension between the two countries.
From BBC
The documentary echoes the protagonists of Jack London novels — men up against the wild, grappling for survival — a trope Woliner enjoys.
From Los Angeles Times
And yet his abandoned undertaking is also a mischievous explosion of a storytelling format, a knowing critique of this most-wanted genre’s longstanding tropes: the eerie credit sequences, montages and music cues.
From Los Angeles Times
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