Example sentences for: archetypes

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

  • In the pulp fiction of Burroughs, as in pulp fiction of any period, timeless archetypes rub shoulders with the vulgar prejudices of the writer and his audience.

  • Or consider Pee-wee's Playhouse . Pee-wee Herman minces about and becomes obviously infatuated with other male characters who conform to gay archetypes.

  • And "TRB" ridicules secretary of state candidates Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell as "archetypes of the Washington Male"--self-important, humorless, and not as smart as they think.

  • We now have a panoply of archetypes we know and are, I think, already responding to.

  • Carl Jung once observed that it is easier to discern the presence of archetypes from the collective subconscious in works of pulp fiction by writers such as H. Rider Haggard than it is in literary masterpieces.


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