Commissioner. com was sold to SportsLine late in 1999 for $ 31 million in cash and stock in a watershed moment for the fantasy industry.

Baba Yaga is used as a stock character by authors of modern Russian fairy tales, and from the 1990s in Russian fantasy.

While wendigos have been referred to in literature for many decades ( most notably in Algernon Blackwood's 1910 story " The Wendigo ," which introduced the legend to horror fiction, and in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary ), recently they have become something of a stock character in horror and fantasy films and television, along the lines of werewolves and vampires, usually bearing very little resemblance to the Native American legends.

It uses stock fantasy races such as humans ( The Empire, Bretonnia, Kislev ), Elves ( Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elves ), Dwarfs, Undead, Orcs and Goblins, Vampires, as well as some more unusual types such as Lizardmen, Skaven and the daemonic forces of Chaos.

The dominant Erkynlanders resemble the medieval English, with Anglo-Saxon / Biblical-sounding personal names in addition to the usual castle-based feudal / agrarian setting of stock fantasy.

A player first creates a character from stock medieval fantasy archetypes and starts in the town, shown from aerial perspective and rendered in 3D.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

A comedy of manners film satirises the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.

The label of formula fiction is assigned because of the reuse of plot, plot devices and stock characters.

The Wanderer, found in many Gothic tales, is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment .” Below are classified different stock characters of the Gothic Novel along with examples from popular fiction in the genre.

Reflecting French society, as well as employing stock character associations, many of the lesbian characters in 19th-century French literature were prostitutes or courtesans: personifications of vice who died early, violent deaths in moral endings.

The production set a pattern for the remainder of his theatrical output, most of which can be considered as 20th century reworkings of stock characters and situations from the Italian traditional Commedia dell ' arte.

Plautus ’ characters — many of which seem to crop up in quite a few of his plays — also came from Greek stock, though they too received some Plautine innovations.

Plautus ’ range of characters was created through his use of various techniques, but probably the most important is his use of stock characters and situations in his various plays.

He incorporates the same stock characters constantly, especially when the character type is amusing to the audience.

These two are perfect examples of the stock characters of the pompous soldier and the desperate parasite that appeared in Plautine comedies.

Later playwrights also borrowed Plautus's stock characters.

The British TV sitcom Up Pompeii uses situations and stock characters from Plautus's plays.

He used stock characters, and the roles were filled with untrained people from the appropriate classes ; he avoided casting stars.

** Comedy of manners – satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.

Featuring stock characters such as the noble hero, the long-suffering damsel in distress, and the cold-blooded villain.

The opera, in the tradition of opera buffa, harks back to the stock characters of the commedia dell ' arte.

VH1 executive vice president Michael Hirschorn wrote that the plots and subject matters on reality television are more authentic and more engaging than in scripted dramas, writing that scripted network television " remains dominated by variants on the police procedural ... in which a stock group of characters ( ethnically, sexually, and generationally diverse ) grapples with endless versions of the same dilemma.

Gli Innamorati ( Italian: " The Lovers ") were stock characters within the theatre style known as Commedia dell ' arte, which appeared in 16th century Italy.

The Lovers never wear the masks which are characteristic of most of the other stock characters in the commedia dell ' arte.

Since the Lovers are stock characters, the names of both the male and female lovers are used over and over again:

This character, an idealized portrayal of " Nature's Gentleman ", was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism, along with other stock characters such as, the Virtuous Milkmaid, the Servant-More-Clever-than-the-Master ( such as Sancho Panza and Figaro, among countless others ), and the general theme of virtue in the lowly born.

High-flown language was generally avoided in favor of dialogue that the lower class would relate to, often in the local dialect, and the stock characters were often derived from those of the Italian commedia dell ' arte.

His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured a cast of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth ( who knew more Latin than the villain ), the noble, mysterious stranger ( whom the poor boy rescued and by whom he got rewarded ), the snobbish youth ( cousin ), and the evil squire ( uncle ).

Western films commonly feature as their protagonists stock characters such as cowboys, gunslingers, and bounty hunters, often depicted as semi-nomadic wanderers who wear Stetson hats, bandannas, spurs, and buckskins, use revolvers or rifles as everyday tools of survival, and ride between dusty towns and cattle ranches on trusty steeds.

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware were to be enjoined from acquiring stock in or exercising control over General Motors ; ;

Fromm's analysis of alienation in the sphere of production centers around the concepts of the bureaucratization of the corporation, the separation of ownership from control, and the broad ( and thus from the point of view of corporate control, ineffective ) dispersion of stock ownership.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

And from that the stock moved right on up until it was trading Thursday morning at around $22 a share.

Indeed, from the moment the reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

* 1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

All humans in the novel ( except Pham ) are descended from Nyjoran stock.

For example, "$ 10, 000 to be paid from the sale of my GM stock.

The movie includes stock footage of Bronx housing projects from 1990, as well as some other scenes shot in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Plant breeders have produced annual cultivars of several biennials that will flower the first year from seed, e. g. foxglove and stock.

The mid-1950s saw the rapid introduction of diesel and electric rolling stock but the expected transfer back from road to rail did not occur and losses began to mount.

With the acquisition of Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, Bombardier Transportation emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of railway rolling stock in the world.

Only a very small number of Mark 1 stock was fitted with the B4 bogie from new, it being used on the Mark 1 only to replace worn BR1 bogies.

The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand ( the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad ; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market ).

Cooking often involves water, which is frequently present in other liquids, both added in order to immerse the substances being cooked ( typically water, stock or wine ), and released from the foods themselves.