archetype
The dioramas at the natural history museum were archetypal old-style exhibitions.
With his thin moustache and well-tailored clothes he is the archetypal image of a screen villain.
Some people saw him as the archetypal science nerd.

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Examples of archetypal

archetypal
This myth is the archetypal masculine role hallmarked by mastery and power.
It does not offer an 'alternative' geared towards cure of extreme maladies, but is perhaps the archetypal 'complement'.
The bis(amidinium) agents, with modest antiviral and antibiotic potency, represent the simplest archetypal class of groove-binding ligands.
The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures, prefiguring modern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
Space-ambiophony explores the global perception of space, which is derived from the archetypal perception of surrounding environments.
It is the nature of the diffused ambience that defines its archetypal character.
In the contemporary imagination, the nun was a figure of fun - the archetypal foolish woman.
The way forward is for the performative/ performing self to place emphasis upon an old, close friend with archetypal form but also real personal significance.
With often undefined locations for the action, we have to assume the archetypal.
The power of opposites is also identifiable with that of the square - the archetypal pattern of order.
In contrast, a school teacher from a working-class family background offered a narrative which challenges the archetypal representation of female social aspiration.
The second aspect has archetypal character and is rigorously independent of the means with which a work is composed.
Instead, it is convenient to use an archetypal language, standing as a suitable abstraction of a whole class of programming languages.
Archetypal situations and energies are all important since they resonate throughout all cultures and in the life of every individual.
It is, of itself, the archetypal remains of another time.
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