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n. (stock character English)
Usage examples of "stock characters".
In his literary criticism, he disdained the use of formula and stock characters while unabashedly using both to his advantage in his highly popular fiction.
These bands developed stock characters in standard masks and costumes, and one of the most popular of the stock characters was called Pantaleone.
Ismene's childish, helpless sister, her angelically handsome cousin, her dark, surly suitor the doctor, the elderly madwomandon't you see, they are stock characters of Gothic fiction!
In each of Shakespeare's plays there is generally such a character, a carryover from the touring companies which had such stock characters in all their plays.
That the bad guy in Barb Wire (played by Steve Railsback) looks and acts just like a Holly-wood-version SS officer is an early indicator that this film will be chockfull of stock characters.
But even history has characters, and a personal history like yours must include a few people whom it would be stupid to call stock characters, even though they appear in almost all complete personal histories.
He painstakingly wore his hair in a quarter-inch bristle, his shirt collar open and his trouser leg ankle-short, in faithful imitation of the newsmen who were stock characters on TV shows.
The British Pantomime consisted of several stock characters whose relationships were defined by convention, varying only slightly from tale to tale, or more precisely, from play to play.
His mind had been translating the language and actions of Sir Brian into the fuzzy, quasi-Victorian image of a stage English- man that most Americans carried around in that part of their mind reserved for stock characters.