prototypical• At its worst, this might sound like a circularmethod of analysis, setting up a prototypical chicken-and-egg dilemma.• "All I Want for Christmas" is the prototypicalcomedy for 8- to 12-year-olds.• There are laughs to be had in putting James at odds with his own Americanness, and indeed his own prototypicalmodernity.• It honed in on the prototypical shape that was behind all the degraded images.• With his broken-downtruck and borrowedelectricity, Carvel was the prototypicalsoleproprietor.• Several authors of early and / or prototypical works are listed below.