trope
Example Sentences
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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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
