The main players here are, for the most part, little more than stock figures of romance.

We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person.

The professional correspondent became a stock figure in farces and films.

Which is not to say that the bombshell must be a stock figure, immune to broader cultural change.

On paper, Rajani is another stock figure: the lonely woman left at home with the children while her husband marches forth to his great works.

The people were tiny stock figures who came with gestures to match.

What would be the effect on the profit if goods costing £6,000 were excluded from the opening stock figure?

There are no statistics on public or private stocks, until some commercial stock figures were kept in 1943.

He felt as though he'd come to in the middle of a movie and looked about for stock figures.

But stock figures are not unique to film and television.