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Example sentences for: archetype

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The bracero experience has been written about in novels and depicted in numerous movies, and although the image presented is often a negative one, like other Chicano folk heroes the bracero has become an archetype of the culture.
The bato loco is tantamount to an archetype in Chicano culture; he is that crazy guy who isn’t afraid of life.
But in an evocative (if self-serving) piece in The New Yorker , Raphael notes that his original script was ultimately "blanched of all the duplicity that made it alive" for him, that at every turn Kubrick took out details of personality in pursuit of an underlying archetype.
Isn't it time to retire this archetype?
A third-rate mystery tricked out with a great cast and some tony cinematography, the movie unspools like an elderly director's swan song--a bitter, late-Romantic threnody for the lost integrity of an American archetype, co-opted by the evils of a shabbily materialistic culture.