But the cast of characters is stocked with overly familiar types: not just the rake and the ditz but also the naif and the wisecracking gay man.
One would hope so, but it's not a business for overly retiring types, not ideal for one who reviewed his life's work and concluded that the bulk of it ought to be consumed by fire.
Even if the characters are overly obvious types (the entrepreneur, the bitter dreamer, the alcoholic), the play is so well-plotted that we are drawn into a plausible story of disillusioned Irishmen abroad.
"I think it's a response to overly-aggressive types.
Kristen Stewart has tried to rationalise why some young women might reject the label of 'feminist', saying that it could be a "response to overly-aggressive types".
John Lassetire, the wood-paneled pickup truck character, a movie-pitching, overly enthusiastic creative type.
The show had enormous fun too in undermining its famous faces: Lincoln is a perpetual ditherer, Joan of Arc an overly earnest clicktivist type, JFK a lunkheaded jock and Gandhi a party-bro desperately seeking the validation of his peers.
A week in advance, he made a rather unexpected request to hang out with me without Liz and my roommate Mia around, and given my previous experience with this overly self-assured type of guy, I was bewildered.
I don't teach fiction, but I am one of those overly serious, academic types (apparently, even in cocktail attire I convey this).
The scene is a dinner party, where five overeducated, overly moneyed Ivy League types pummel one another and the audience with literary, historical and sociopolitical references while drinking rather a lot of wine.
It's so entrenched by now and there is so much money at stake, not to mention the ambition and passion of overly influential booster-types, that there is scarcely a college president in America with the nerve or the will to change it.
