Example sentences for: stereotypes

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

  • "Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.

  • Flynt says he was parodying these stereotypes, but the film carefully avoids raising the issue.

  • However, in many real-world situations, it is possible to represent diversity adequately for illustrative purposes and to obtain the benefits of this application: helping readers feel, hear, see, "be there" when this kind of surrogate site experience is necessary to undo stereotypes or explain a situation otherwise inaccessible for most people.

  • She wouldn't praise a film she found offensively treacly or that trafficked in positive stereotypes because she thought it would ennoble the folks in rural America who saw only a handful of pictures a year.

  • Yet the movie sets up the basic theme of Hughes' subsequent--and I would maintain all successful--teen movies, which is to overthrow the stereotypes that comprise the basis of adolescent identity.


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