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Example sentences for: stereotype
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His performance as Frank Horrigan, an aging Secret Service agent, in In The Line of Fire (1993), was the most affecting he has ever given--a fallen stereotype, a glimpse of the human caught in the pose.
A smattering of reviewers griped about Jar Jar Binks, and the Village Voice was offended by the "blatant ethnic stereotype" behind Watto, "the hook-nosed merchant insect."
The stereotype was so pervasive and pejorative that even at RPI, one seldom actually saw a belt-mounted slide rule, a pocket protector, or glasses repaired with tape.
(A recent example of how this stereotype gets perpetuated is the article by garden-shop entrepreneur Paul Hawken in the current Mother Jones . I'm sorry to say that some of the people at Redefining Progress published an impressively ill-informed diatribe along the same lines in the Atlantic back in 1995.)
Insult was added to injury when Todd Purdum in the Sunday New York Times took out after us for our lack of excitement, resuscitating the "laid-back" stereotype that I thought had been shipped off to Seattle a decade or so ago, along with our laid-off aerospace workers.
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