flat character
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Babbitt is a flat character, and that is exactly how Broderick plays him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
Suddenly, a familiar and somewhat flat character gains a new dimension, as Wilson transforms a stock type into someone dynamic and real.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2021
Having no sides is certainly one characteristic of a totally flat character!
From Slate • Nov. 15, 2018
It is easy to make him a flat character and laugh as he continues to play the “I’m as shocked as you” card.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2017
Finally, the river led them amongst plains gaping with fissures, grassless and waterless, where the only change in the flat character of the country was the sandhill formation, that exactly agreed with Sturt's description.
From The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Favenc, Ernest
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