Sentence examples for recognisable types from inspiring English sources

The characters are recognisable types, affording plenty of opportunity for cameo performances.

The (Man) Booker has been around long enough for at least 10 kinds of winner to have become recognisable types.

These are recognisable types of footprint that cannot be matched precisely with the species of animal that left them.

The taciturn Jane ("Still a chatterbox, then?") and doughty Pam Ferris ("Sometimes, you have to admit defeat and let the world turn as it must") are recognisable types, but the writing is good enough to save them from cliche.

British films often fall into recognisable types: the gritty social drama, the gritty "urban" movie, and the, er, gritty gangster flick.

Holland is good at summing up historical figures as recognisable character types, and presents Augustus as an "operator" with an "eye for the main chance", devoted to his company (the empire and the Julio-Claudian brand) but struggling to control his own family (including his wayward and adulterous daughter, Julia), and his succession.

This should have been comforting as we were clearly a recognisable type – but it wasn't.

The machinery of the tragedy depends less on character than on recognisable type.

If you came across Nigel Kennedy in a dance tent at a muddy festival, he would be an instantly recognisable type.

Case (forename redundant, like any good hard-boiled antihero) is a recognisable type purloined from detective fiction: hard-bitten, brave, apparently cynical but in fact humane.

Probably Morris, certainly her publisher, will not thank me for saying that Hav is in fact science fiction, of a perfectly recognisable type and superb quality.