Sentence examples for stock elements from inspiring English sources

As the story progresses, the reliance on stock elements starts to show.

All the stock elements of the genre are included: scorned women, psychotic servants, venal cardinals, the obligatory bloodbath.

The art is in taking the stock elements, characters and set-ups, and marrying them to modern themes.

Thirty years after Memphis's debut, heavily hyped parties, elaborate publicity campaigns, mediagenic portraits and expensive, impractical furniture are stock elements of the design scene.

But the movie provides these stock elements and many others, including too-cute therapy scenes, lyrical montages and a wisecracking young girl (Abigail Breslin), playing the heroine's orphaned niece, Zoe.

Picasso's cynical wisdom (minus his driving genius, of course) is common sense now, as artists like those in "Comic Abstraction" mix and match stock elements, with ever less drama and with intensity dwindling away.

That's where the stock element gets very attractive".

But Kraft's weak results last week have eroded the value of the stock element of the offer.

Mrs Bush's speech last night was expected to dwell on personal insights into George Bush's character in times of pressure, a stock element of speeches by candidates' wives, that Mrs Kerry skipped at the Democratic convention.

But the Stockwood directors say they have received official confirmation that those investing in the loan stock element of this scheme are eligible for a new tax break, Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR), almost identical to EIS.

There's a stock element too.