He read the alphabet book, that staple of childhood learning.
Bread, that staple of French cuisine and culture, seemed doomed to a Pepperidge Farm-like uniformity.
(He has charmingly reinvented that staple of melodramatic villains, the sustained insane cackle).
Where was that staple of economy cooking, lentils, either tinned or dried?
Ah, the mother-in-law, that staple of stand-up comedy routines.
Are they really selling that hydroponic grow light -- that staple of dorm-room marijuana cultivation?
Even romantic mishaps – that staple of sitcoms – do not escape the lack-of-cash nexus.
Then she alighted on a blue denim jacket, that staple of Eastern Seaboard insouciance.
To create it, he first took a snapshot of a mountain landscape, that staple of German Romanticism.
The rags-to-riches story — that staple of American biography — has over the years been given two very different interpretations.
Midway through, we meet that staple of the camp narrative, the truly sadistic officer, in this case the well-named Uglik.
