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If you have, well then, your only dilemma is which cast to book for.
But thanks to that letter, Edel is able to cast the book as illustrative, essential to our understanding of James.
Readers who find the first chapter dry – as many may well do – are strongly urged not to cast the book aside, but to press on, and keep using it as a guide.
Yet the ghost turns out to write with such substance that any churlish thoughts are swiftly cast aside.The book is not, in fact, chiefly about ghostwriting, but rather an extraordinary character whose presence almost wholly overwhelms the subtext of self-deception and of the blurring of truth and reality.
The opening chapter attempts to cast the book as a means to understand present high unemployment, which is a little unfortunate; most of current labour market weakness can be explained by weak growth, and weak growth is well explained by weak demand.
In the end, editors made a few predictable deletions — including a reference to the Tiananmen Square crackdown and a passage in which the artist Ai Weiwei criticizes the city's leaders — and a title change that sought to cast the book as a nostalgic love letter ("See You Again, Old Beijing").
It's a product demonstration,' " Mr. Schwartz recalled, adding that the agency found Mr. Horowitz in a casting book.
We've also cast extra books for the surface.
It is trying to cast its books as permanent library assets, ephemeral as they may seem in their digital format.
(Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 678) More than a century later, Gottlob Frege, who fortunately did not cast his books away in despair, expressed similar admiration, declaring that "in his writings, Leibniz threw out such a profusion of seeds of ideas that in this respect he is virtually in a class of his own".
