Archetype, (from Greek archetypos, "original pattern"), in literary criticism, a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation.
His moral profundity is crystallized in the Little Tramp, nature's nobleman, and the film's concluding Christian symbolism suggests the archetypal force that made this character the primordial icon of the twentieth century and of the cinema itself.
According to Thoreau, the well-ordered soul belongs neither to him who merely indulges in the primordial elements of his character nor him who merely renounces them, but rather to the man who harmonizes his primitive and polite sides once each has been allowed to flourish.
Objectifies and collects friendships with Blacks and Asians because they are possessive of a kind of primordial "cool" and "exotic" character.
During a roughly 90-minute presentation that name-dropped Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Herodotus, John Locke and Dostoyevsky, the parents heard about a liberal arts curriculum steeped heavily in the Western classical canon that tackled the "primordial human questions," nourishing intellect and character.
There was a kind of primordial fierceness to the worlds the characters inhabited, and a homeliness to the language they used.
For the ToPs, we declared 0 (minimum value) as the ancestral character state assuming that the primordial proteome had a simpler organization and there was a progressive trend towards organismal complexity.
The Daodejing is also referred to as the Daode zhenjing (True Classic of the Way and Virtue), the Taishang xuanyuan Daodejing (Classic of the Way and Virtue of the Highest Primordial Mystery), and less formally the "five-thousand character" text, on account of its approximate length.
Simple, fablelike tales unfold to the beat of quotidian rhythms — the morning bustle and noontime stillness of Roman streets; the implacable movement of the tides on a primordial stretch of coastline — and the faces of characters show not only emotion but also the natural reserve of people whose dignity is at stake.
The objective of this study was to investigate the expressive character of PAR6 and its role during primordial follicle formation in mice.
