Sentence examples for stock character from inspiring English sources
noun
Any fictional character drawn from some stereotype who is instantly recognizable.
"He's a stock character," Time says.
The brilliant outsider has become almost a stock character.
Capitano, stock character of the Italian commedia dell'arte.
"I didn't want to be a stock character".
(He is also a "stock" character, an archetype).
But if there is a narrative, the closing automobile plant is a stock character.
Almost overnight, Carson became both a national hero and a stock character in pulp fiction.
In "Political Animal," McGrath evokes nearly every stock character in American political life.
The embezzling rascal hero of Canqun ("The Military Counselor") became a stock character in later plays.
THE hapless, bumbling father is a stock character in product marketing.
Wright's main inventions are a crusading young priest who serves as the nuncio's aide-de-camp and a sweet stock-character prostitute who "smelled like coffee and cinnamon" and struggles to provide for her sweet stock-character children.
