trope
Example Sentences
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“Scary Movie” is a genuinely hilarious parody of horror tropes, while its sequels are merely decent clip packages, stitched together by increasingly weak narrative threads.
From Salon
It’s sprinkled with the faintest touch of spice but happily lacks the tired tropes of most romantasy.
Directors don’t have to sprint to cover a whole existence, and they can present their movie as a fresh twist on an old form, even if they still rely on many biopic tropes.
The hive mind is one of genre fiction’s most reliably unsettling tropes, embodying our native fear of being overwhelmed by a force organized around a singular purpose.
From Salon
A triumphant return to the sound of her debut album, Abracadabra takes all the Lady Gaga tropes – Nonsense lyrics!
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
