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  • Chiron calls them archetypes.†  (source)
    archetypes = typical examples of different types
  • The second concept for our consideration is archetype.†  (source)
  • I have never seen anything in the real world to suggest the Ancient Mysteries are anything other than legend—a recurring mythological archetype.†  (source)
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  • This is in some ways the archetypal Lois Weisberg story.†  (source)
  • I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype.†  (source)
  • And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or thatpolitical kitsch.†  (source)
    archetypes = typical examples of different types
  • He looked like the archetypal sinister magician that seems to be a requirement in so many bad Aturan plays.†  (source)
  • It was the archetype of archetypes; Paralon was the reality that the legend of Camelot aspired to be.†  (source)
  • As if by a carpet of magic, he transported them through the lands of illusion, raising up palaces of colored smoke upon pillars of water and of fire, escalating the benches at which they sat down canyons of stardust, striving with coral and myrrh to bend their senses beyond themselves, bringing onto them all their Aspects, wherein he held them, rotating about the archetypes upon which they had based their powers, as Shiva danced in a graveyard the Dance of Destruction and the Dance of Time, celebrating the legend of his annihilation of the three flying cities of the Titans, and Krishna the Dark moved through the Wrestler's Dance in commemoration of his breaking of the black demon Bana, while†  (source)
  • Though untrained as an architect, he came up with a design that was simple, memorable, and archetypal.†  (source)
  • This"—she paused for emphasis—"is the archetype of an inclined plane......You'll not find its equal anywhere.†  (source)
  • It was the archetype of archetypes; Paralon was the reality that the legend of Camelot aspired to be.†  (source)
  • They are archetypal images—judging, punishing, pitiless.†  (source)
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