stock figures

He felt as though he'd come to in the middle of a movie and looked about for stock figures.

But stock figures are not unique to film and television.

The main players here are, for the most part, little more than stock figures of romance.

The characters are such stock figures that there is little for the dancers to work with.

The people were tiny stock figures who came with gestures to match.

There are no statistics on public or private stocks, until some commercial stock figures were kept in 1943.

It continued to rise Friday on encouraging stocks figures.

The secondary characters tend to be stock figures.

These stock figures' purpose is to make David realize how much is irrevocable about race, religion and history.

In the pantheon of widely appealing stock figures, "you have dogs, babies and monks."

Alma's men are reduced to stock figures, and the talents of several fine actors are wasted.

Somehow, that makes it even harder to keep these stock figures straight in one's mind, especially since their dialogue is both homogeneous and banal.

Few stock figures are more easily recognisable than that of the Civil War cavalier.

"Wings" had grand scale, stock figures and plenty of action - qualities it was to share, down the years, with many other top Oscar winners.

His Tub People are plain stock figures.

Machiavelli uses stock figures as a way of explaining political themes and satirizing familiar societal elements.

The use of such stock figures diminished in popularity after World War II.

The young people who come to New York City to be actors and end up slinging hash are more than stock figures.

A totally manual system was labour intensive, but it was accurate and the stock figures held in the control office were seldom too far out.

Some character pieces may have represented stock figures from the New Comedy of Menander and other writers.

Ms. Ganek's characters are stock figures in the art world but relatively exotic ones for chick-lit fiction.

Stock figures, Ms. Ganek's characters nonetheless ring true.

Aluminium followed copper up, despite disappointing stocks figures, closing at 1,375 dollars per tonne for an increase of 22 dollars.

These are intelligent, sophisticated, emotionally mature individuals rather than stock figures or caricatures and this lends the film a credibility it otherwise wouldn't have.

Typically written in pidgin English, they portrayed stock figures like houseboys, coolies, laundrymen and white slavers.