Meanings of familiar trope in English

The faces of children are a familiar trope in our visual culture at this time of year.

It's a remarkable new twist on a familiar trope, the coming of age story, the sexual coming of age story.

Admittedly, her character is a familiar trope many would understandably like to see go away -the baby mama from hell.

Near the beginning of South Park: The Stick of Truth you're given the choice between four character "classes", a familiar trope in role-playing games.

Jane Eyre also displays the familiar tropes of the gothic novel.

Other familiar tropes were also on show across the league in the opening fortnight.

Freedom, impracticality, fragmentation -these are familiar tropes in debates over internet regulation and governance.

Hero Pop is an app puzzle game that uses familiar tropes in a kooky way.

This being a drama set in the 1960s, there are familiar tropes to contend with.

Her debut takes a swirl of familiar tropes and reframes them; it's a gutsy and sonorous start.

The familiar tropes were trotted out, one after another, words that Bourgeois had rehearsed dozens of times.

The rest of the time, like fishing itself, there's something soothing about the familiar tropes of the workday format.

Arsenal have a particular way of losing games and all the familiar tropes were there in abundance on Wedn(...)

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dead Lucky's plot harvests familiar tropes from the nightly news and squeezes them into an urban crime drama.

Each represents an effort to gussy up the raw economics of land development with the comforting, familiar tropes of the knowledge economy.

This week saw a return to the high-octane politics and rapidly changing news agenda that have become familiar tropes of the Trump presidency.