Meanings of stock character in inglês

Jack Black plays a less socially successful variation on his stock character.

She is a stock character on the stage.

Photograph: REX A stock character in the annals of national stereotype is the "English" eccentric.

In fact, at this point, that sort of onscreen character feels requisite, like a sort of stock character.

The bad guy who is just plain evil is a stock character of Hollywood films and works of literature.

This new stock character soon became fair game for all, since cartoonists often compete to ring new changes on an established theme.

Woody Allen waited 30 years before hiring actors such as John Cusack, Kenneth Branagh and Owen Wilson to play variations on his stock character.

Playing barely conceptualized stock characters, the actors provide rudimentary performances.

None of the stock characters of Dickens, the Coronation Street-style plot twists and big reveals.

The screenplay, featuring much portentous voice-over narration by its lead character, is filled with stock characters and cliched dialogue.

Hallucinating violently, one of the stock characters from her books, Minnie, comes to life to lend a sisterly hand.

However, it is a mark of the media's desire to shoehorn our heroines into their stock characters that all figures are estimated up.

Although the screenplay has its amusing moments, the stock characters and situations, not to mention a certain air of familiarity, ultimately detract from its effectiveness.

That tension is maintained is quite a trick given the presence of stock characters and a script that telegraphs where it's going at the midpoint.

In the Mahuika Theatre Company production at Auckland's Q Theatre, the stock characters range from a greedy corporate businessman to a crafty K Road streetworker.