Only one – rather key – role repeatedly defied our casting efforts.
The pro-regulatory critics, however, cast such efforts as "anti-democratic" and an effort "to take control over the Internet".
For all the cast's efforts, there is no guarantee that the show will make it past Easter.
Unfortunately, in spite of the cast's efforts to play up the characters' campiness — in their beautiful costumes, on the two-story set — it's not all that funny.
Such human touches, of course, are part of the legal strategy Mr. Olson and his law partner on this case, David Boies, who have cast their efforts to overturn Proposition 8 as a seminal civil rights struggle.
Mr. Obama spoke about his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, and cast his efforts to retain the presidency in historical terms, talking about "the belief that in America, change is always possible".
Beyond the mocking tone of the Reuters report, Iranian officials seem to have been most angered by the fact that the initial script cast the efforts of the women to learn the martial art in terms of a potential conflict with Israel, despite the fact that the dojo has been in operation for more than two decades.
When Mr. Bellow tries to give the book more of a plot, to flesh out Chick's relationship with Ravelstein and more minor members of the cast, his efforts feel peculiarly tentative and flaccid, as though he wasn't entirely sure what he wanted to make of his hero's story.
That is not to cast aside efforts undertaken by the research and academic community.
