单词 | stock response |
释义 | > as lemmasstock response stock response n. an automatic and superficial reaction to a literary device (see quot. 1939); also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace commonplace1560 household word1574 scholium1830 commonplaceism1831 banality1861 bromide1906 stock response1925 tag-phrase1933 1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xxv. 203 Against these stock responses the artist's internal and external conflicts are fought, and with them the popular writer's triumphs are made. 1939 C. Brooks & R. P. Warren Understanding Poetry 639 Stock response, the general uncritical response made on conventional or habitual grounds to a situation, subject, phrase, or word in literature. Advertisers frequently attempt to appeal to stock responses. 1957 A. Thwaite Home Truths 40 Or will it seem Merely the self-duped mind's harangue at Death, The stock-response still raging in the shroud? 1961 K. Tynan Curtains i. 8 The stock response of terror in the face of matricide has vanished. 1966 ‘K. A. Saddler’ Gilt Edge ix. 128 ‘Well,’ he said continuing, and just in time as I was running out of stock responses. 1975 Times 20 Sept. 6/3 If Agatha Christie works almost entirely with what the critics call ‘stock responses’, she knows..how to take advantage of our responding in a stock way to..stock situations. < as lemmas |
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