type cast
Example Sentences
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Are you afraid of being type cast as the romantic hero?
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
Because of excessive ornamentation in his earlier work, Yamasaki's critics have tended to type cast him as an "exterior decorator," or cosmetician.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just once Winston caught a phrase— “complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism”—jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid.
From "1984" by George Orwell
The foregoing refers more particularly to type cast by the regular foundries.
From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart
From the type cast for Kipling's edition, which give a good idea of the manuscript.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
