Three episodes into the new series, cast members have assumed archetypal roles.

All feature the same stock characters, in similar archetypal roles.

Even when Hindi cinema moved into contemporary settings, the films largely remained morality plays with actors in archetypal roles.

His head sends different signals than does the rest of his body, which may explain why he handles such an archetypal role so well.

The women take on archetypal roles as a child, a young woman and a mother; there's also a red-headed diva.

However, at the end comes an unexpected inversion of the characters' archetypal roles.

He was also cast as a lawyer or journalist and occasionally played a gangster, but his archetypal role was as a wise and compassionate physician.

As a surrogate family, the Beatles took on archetypal roles.

Augustine is assigned the archetypal maternal role: she's a placid, silent monument.

It was an archetypal role.