Sentence examples for cast straight from inspiring English sources
This is a cast straight out of the funny papers.
Instead of the usual interrupted erotic but wordy idyll between Tristan and Isolde, Wagner has the lovers cast straight into a torture chamber by unforgiving mafioso King Marke.
He resumed training a few days ago but is he ready to be cast straight into an African Cup of Nations semi-final where he'll have to mark Samuel Eto'o, the most prolific scorer in the competition's history?
"It was nice, but this is nicer," said Mr. Nichols, who is 80. "You see before you a happy man," he continued, thanking playwright Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca and "a cast straight from heaven," led by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman.
Even Louis Agassiz Shaw, a murderer and a snob who inhabited a book-lined suite in Upham Memorial, and Carl Liebman, a paranoid schizophrenic unsuccessfully analyzed by Freud, are cheerfully presented in the context of a cast straight out of a 30's screwball comedy.
My rods don't look straight but they cast straight".
Party officials worry that if Ms. Rogers prevails, Democrats will not be able to encourage voters to cast straight-ticket ballots for their party in the general election — already an uphill battle in the Houston suburbs.
There is an ongoing debate in Hollywood about whether or not gay actors face discrimination when it comes to casting straight roles, but in the world of HBO's new comedy-drama Looking, things are slightly different.
It's also important to note that while musicals, both new and revived, have recently shown a greater willingness to diversify their casting, straight plays have proven more resistant, whether out of a lack of imagination or a fear of alienating audiences, who expect a greater level of realism in drama, or so producers may assume.
But isn't stocking the staff of gay bars with straight boys a bit like always casting straight actors in gay roles, leaving gay actors out of work and gay audiences still not seeing themselves truly represented onscreen?
There are relatively few movies in the mix with large black casts — "Straight Outta Compton," the summer hit about the rap group N.W.A, is one of the few contenders that could make a splash, and many experts have it on the bubble.
