"broad stereotypes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to generalizations that are overly simplified and are often based on false assumptions about people or groups of people. For example: Despite our society's broad stereotypes of senior citizens, many elderly people remain active and engaged in their communities.
The characters Ms. Feldshuh creates are very broad stereotypes.
The movies trafficked in broad stereotypes, but they were, for the most part, good-natured stereotypes.
The three alters are broad stereotypes, but Collette makes the moments of transition surprisingly touching, and sometimes subtly comic.
The broad stereotypes and fridge-magnet philosophy grate on reflection but somehow, amid the dross, Cooper's performance endures.
Most of the novel's characters are broad stereotypes, and most of their stories feel like contrived compilations of melodramatic incidents garnished with large heapings of self-pity.
They're from all parts of the globe, and the ethnic and sexual spectrums (albeit with recourse to some fairly broad stereotypes) – a veritable rainbow nation.
But it's hard to get away with such broad stereotyping without coming across as crass or cynical.
You can watch her talking about her work on the biblical Eve in advertising here—a charming academic with, yes, a northern accent.Now imagine a person with another bit of biographical background black, Jewish or a lesbian, say meeting someone else, only to be greeted with a broad stereotype disguised as good-natured getting-to-know-you.
Indeed, they may have redeemed the role from the original conception of "Butterfly's" originator, the American writer David Belasco, whose Cio-Cio San is a figure of such broad stereotype, speaking in pidgin English, that she is literally difficult to read, on more than one level.
Another broad stereotype, that of the boozy hedonist, is lustily delivered by Kirsten Chandler as Joy, whose sexual preferences encompass both sides of the street.
On one hand, it's Brooks's film that most betrays his TV sitcom roots, thanks to its one-liners, the cutaway-reaction style of its shooting and cutting, and moments of broad stereotyping, particularly by Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr.
