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What does casting mean?

casting

the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel (= molding) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold (= cast) object formed by a mold

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Simple sentences

Censorious people delight in casting blame.
It is like casting pearls before swine.
This development is casting a larger and larger shadow over the chemical industry as well.
The casting of the statue was delayed.
I'm not casting a spell over their children.
The young witch was casting a spell, when Tom rushed towards her, grabbed her, and interrupted the ritual with a passionate kiss on her mouth.
He stood from the wall, his slender figure casting an elongated shadow across the hallway.

Movie subtitles

A workman informs the astronomers that if they would ascend to the roof, they will witness a splendid spectacle: the casting of the gun.
In this old naive drawing, a sorcerer and a witch are casting spells, setting a village on fire.
We're casting a funny shadow.
That's a very agreeable mouth, you're casting before these swine.
Keep going around to those casting offices. I'm sure you'll click.
I've been in every casting office in this town.
Your Honor, I accuse the government of casting a cloud of suspicion. on the integrity of my wife, the Baroness Sofia de Peralta-Reavis.
Writers without a job, composers without a publisher, actresses so young they still believed the guys in the casting office.
But I have been foolish, casting my pearls before.
Come and see the casting room.
We've lost more stuntmen on these pictures. lt'll take hours to get a new one from Central Casting.
Mr. Simpson's thinking about casting you as Zelda's sister.
And, Mike, after this, if Mr. Cordova tells you he's casting Tallulah. for Little Eva, believe him.
You're casting a shadow.
What happened regarding the planned casting of Boris Karloff in the title role?
Gloria Stuart was playing in The Seagull at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932 when Phil Friedman, then Universal's casting director, saw her and asked her to make a test.
Casting me adrift 3500 miles from a port of call.
And here I thought you were. casting sheep's eyes at a pretty girl.
Give it a rundown with casting officers, booking agencies.
Writers without a job, composers without a publisher, actresses so young they still believe the guys in the casting offices.
Why don't you try for it? I'd call that good casting.
It'll take hours to get a new one from Central Casting.
Maybe it was bad casting.
Give this slip to the casting director.
My talent isn't for the casting couch!
Look her up in the casting directory I'll tell you what I told the police.
I can't imagine any witch of a woman. casting a spell over you.
We've lost more stuntmen on these pictures-- lt'll take hours to get a new one from Central Casting.
Oh, Smee. The way of a man with a maid. Taking the best years of her life and then. casting her aside like an old glove!
We're casting' off!
I'm casting a play now.
Mr. Grady, my agent, took me in to see Mr. Denver. when he was casting the Duncan play about two years ago.
So someone somewhere is casting out a net for Lillian?

News and current affairs

Whatever the case, casting the fight against terrorism as a war has led American policymakers to multiply violent military operations that have absolutely no chance of winning hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
Yet, at the same time, the US supports Abu Mazen, trying to undermine the Hamas government, thus casting a shadow on the credibility of its own commitment to democracy.
Moreover, by casting every problem as mainly caused by global warming, the solution almost automatically becomes cutting CO2 emissions, though this often is the slowest and costliest way to achieve the least good.
But casting aspersions on a nominee's patriotism was the norm in the McCarthy era; it is less common today.
The court was already casting an eye at Zadari by examining the deal between former President Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto.
Continental European students who used to come to Britain now join their British colleagues in casting their eyes across the Atlantic.
Now it is casting its spell over developing countries, making a powerful play to rewrite India's past, as Deepak Lal suggests.
The Stability Pact holds another important lesson: casting in stone institutional arrangements designed to address the problems of the past is a recipe for failure in the future.
Indeed, the figures have been repeatedly revised, even over quite short periods of time, casting strong doubt on the validity of the economic models being used.
Today, some policymakers in Latin America, worried that the same thing could happen to their countries, are casting about for policy tools to prevent it.
Moreover, re-casting the World Bank's mission in this way taps the Bank's distinct comparative advantage relative to the dozens of bilateral aid agencies and hundreds of non-governmental organizations that work in developing countries.
Clinton remembered. seeing some poor fisherman casting their lines..
In effect, this means that Russia seems to be casting aside its accession to the WTO - a major reversal of Russian strategy.
In the US, we can already see signs that the downturn that started in 2008 is casting its shadow on the future.
But the superb sunshine in Davos these days cannot avoid the shadows of the financial crisis that have enveloped the world, casting an atmosphere of gloom and doom on this year's meeting.
Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India's politics.
Finally, casting a long shadow over everything, is Menem.

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