Sentence examples for a stock scene from inspiring English sources

Dick Caramel's conversation with his uncle is no longer a stock scene: the writer has become a "professional" with a tenured academic status, a certified technician of language; one would ask him for advice, as one would a doctor, rather than tell him how to do his job.

A lightning bolt generated by Strickfaden's equipment has become a stock scene, appearing in any number of films and television shows.

Polaris Global Value (PGVFX) is a consistent performer in the world stock scene.

Western artists often cast a black figure as one of the magi when painting the stock scene of the Adoration of the Kings (Jan Gossaert's Renaissance altarpiece on this theme in the National Gallery in London is a good example).

Conjure this stock scene from any television medical drama: Four doctors are trying desperately to save a patient in distress, with defibrillation, mouth-to-mouth, injections of this and that.

Even my memories of my mother had begun to break apart in the three and a half years since her death, the thousands of days I had spent with her reduced to a handful of stock scenes.

Using talking heads, still photographs and generic stock scenes (a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty to indicate arrival in America) to illustrate dry biographical data, "Ayn Rand: a Sense of Life" traces the rise of its subject and her philosophy.

Much of Asian dance and theatrical activity comprises improvised arrangements of stock scenes, movements, and speech.

Domestically, the novel spends some time cycling through stock scenes of American life-crisis: Tim being coldly rebuffed by his daughter, Jane abruptly developing a drink problem.

They absorb such stock scenes as the lament, the pastoral, the lullaby, the rage aria, the tempest.

Stock scenes such as "person stranded on tiny island" and "person talking to psychiatrist" are all well and good.