tropes
- plural of trope.
Example Sentences
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These tropes course through in Alex Haley’s “Roots” TV miniseries and Oscar-nominated melodramas like “Glory” and “Amistad,” as well as acclaimed 21st-century films like “Django Unchained” and “12 Years a Slave.”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
Spoon-feeding this critical bit of dialogue early in the film allows Barker to heap as much violence, trauma and tropes onto Nikki’s character as possible, under the guise of thematic callbacks.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
Though the Johnny Cage figure is a walking embodiment of cheesy Hollywood tropes, his presence seems not to embarrass the film into abandoning its schlocky ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Empire, meanwhile, adds that the film "serves its characters with a fresh story instead of relying solely on the tropes of its predecessor" but does note "this high-fashion tale could have benefitted from higher stakes".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
