Example sentences for: archetypal

How can you use “archetypal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At MGM, Louis B. Mayer produced the bourgeois counterpart, the obscenely successful Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, later teamed in the archetypal teen pix Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway . Universal made a likewise profitable series with Deanna Durbin, and over at RKO in the '40s, the teen-age Shirley Temple starred in movies like The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer . It is in 1949 that the echt misunderstood teen film Knock on Any Door was made, starring John Derek as the misfit who wanted to "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."

  • Before climbing the steps, make a small detour farther along Kongens Gade, past the Lutheran Parsonage (1725), to reach Government House, an archetypal colonial mansion.

  • He doesn't need to force his actors to caricature their behavior in the name of some "archetypal" truth because those masks are already so marvelously archetypal.

  • Those existential speculations don't derive from the screenplay's source, an archetypal but otherwise down-to-earth 1962 novel by James Jones (who also wrote From Here to Eternity ) about the American invasion of the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal.

  • The archetypal uncontrollable creation-gone-amok is Frankenstein's monster , commonly familiarized to Frankenstein by the incognizant who thus disserve Mary Shelley's Baron Frankenstein, the monster's creator.


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