Literary notes about typical (AI summary)
In literature, the term “typical” functions as a succinct marker of something characteristic or emblematic of a broader trend or quality. It serves to draw the reader’s attention to representations that epitomize certain styles, conditions, or behaviors—a tone scheme in a painting’s description ([1]) or the plight of human experience ([2]). At times it denotes a standard or expected pattern, whether referring to the design of a household object ([3]) or the conventional conduct of societal figures ([4], [5]). The word is also employed in more abstract contexts to convey a sentiment of inevitability or irony, as seen when it subtly underscores the predictable nature of events or attitudes ([6], [7]). Overall, “typical” becomes a literary shorthand that bridges concrete description with social commentary, inviting the reader to recognize a familiar pattern or quality throughout the narrative ([8], [9], [10]).
- This is a typical example of Corot's tone scheme, 216 and little need be added to the description already given.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed - It speaks for a typical human will chastened by a typical human experience.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - [872] is a typical house lamp, though rather a small specimen.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Much more so than her husband, though he is a typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent. lady chiltern .
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde - He saw it now as he looked at Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant in his rags, graceful, well-fed, and joyous, a typical Russian nobleman.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - This conclusion is false, but it is typical of the reverents.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of the way that waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker - This particular day on which he announced his ennui to Tom had been quite typical.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - It is the entelechy of the living individual, be he typical or singular.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Christianity, with its prospect of "blessedness," is the typical attitude of mind of a suffering and impoverished species of man.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche