archetypically love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an archetypal manner; after the mode or plan of an archetype.

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  • adverb In an archetypical fashion.

Etymologies

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archetypical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "Dead Man Blues" seems archetypically New Orleansian in its mockery of funeral rites and its use of music to defy death.

    Rolling With the Rhythms Will Friedwald 2011

  • Digging in, shutting down, playing out our "roles" which need not be archetypically suburban ones; people seem to know how to instinctively "pair off" when pressed, no matter what the cultural space — letting time pass, indulging in nostalgia for our wild, young days, fitting our personalities & previous experiences into palatable dramatic loops which can be replayed at will, comfortable in their familiarity?

    Portland Vagabonder [Card #8: Strength] [WORK-IN-PROGRESS] Christopher Snyder 2011

  • It seems archetypically American to want to deal with work-like stress, competition, struggle for control, and criticism in every situation, including dinner.

    How To Send Back Restaurant Food | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • I love women writing women characters hello, Gail Simone on Wonder Woman but I loved seeing a woman handed the reins to one of the most archetypically male characters in comics.

    Women in Comics 2009

  • Still, few films I have seen, made in Hollywood or Japan, have had such a sumptuous but exacting imagination on display in re-creating the archetypically manga-ish imagery of a young girl fused with machinery.

    GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts, fests, etc. 2007

  • Furthermore, to me it seemed to carry many of the almost archetypically numinous tropes of a fundamental clash of opposing paradigms.

    Argument and monologue 2009

  • Monroe's character, unnamed and archetypically called just "The Girl," is indeed like an elemental force of nature that blows into Ewell's life with little regard for conventionality or ordinary social relations.

    1/27: Kill, Baby... Kill!; His Girl Friday; The Trouble With Harry; The Seven Year Itch Ed Howard 2008

  • Monroe's character, unnamed and archetypically called just "The Girl," is indeed like an elemental force of nature that blows into Ewell's life with little regard for conventionality or ordinary social relations.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • I think the movie would have been enormously improved if the studio producers had shoved the auteurs aside, sometime during production, and imposed on them some archetypically cigar-chomping, cynical old Hollywood script-fixers who didn't give a damn about Pullman and his masterpiece and were willing to cut great swathes of plot and entire chunks of worldbuilding and add a sappy Hollywood ending.

    The Golden Compass Theodora Goss 2008

  • The classic dissolute author scene has, of course, been chronicled for decades, archetypically by Charles Bukowski in the '60s and then by numerous imitators.

    Books: It's My Party 2007

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