Sentence examples for stock situation from inspiring English sources

And she gives freshness to a stock situation".

The stock situation has only worsened since March.

Din has taken a stock situation, a friends' annual reunion, and reinvigorated it through sport and social commentary.

Take this Richard Decker cartoon, from 1935: After the Second World War, cartoon flood victims perched on their cartoon houses became a stock situation.

Mostly, he acted in stock situation comedies — comedies with no comic roots, like "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947), in which Myrna Loy is a judge who works out a deal.

But Brian Friel's 1964 play, beautifully directed by Lyndsey Turner, lends fresh life to a stock situation in two ways: by giving voice to the hero's alter ego, and by focusing on the power of unarticulated feeling.

That is to say, he used the story to set up the stock situations on which bel canto relied.

Mr. Beatty's genre-busting technique, his mingling of parody with naturalism, seems aimed at avoiding stock situations, ghetto stereotypes.

In his novels, Doctorow usually relies on historical situations and personalities; in "Sweet Land Stories," he embellishes and improvises on stock situations and personality types.

The first two episodes are a wildly uneven mix of stock situations and fresh comic moments, spotty but full of potential.

While other songs portray stock situations, Ms. Jackson and her longtime producers, James Harris III Jimmyy Jam and Terry Lewiss, approach them in songs so baroquely sumptuous that they're virtually experimental.