Sentence examples for casting instead of from inspiring English sources

(Rods of some of the softer metals may be formed by extrusion or casting instead of rolling).

It is used for the casting of small precious-metal objects, so that essentially all of the metal goes into the casting instead of the gates and risers.

Because it was critical to find actors who could really give Penn what he wanted, Gene Lasko, the associate producer, did the casting, instead of leaving it up to a casting agency or the casting department of the parent company, as usually happens.

"For anybody who's gone to Joe Biden events and watched how voters connect with him," Mr. Wade said, "there's a pretty big gap between the expectations of the elite media who seem to crave scripted, blow-dried drones out of central casting instead of regular folks who want to see some honesty and candor.

Who, Kos-Read wondered, would the producers have cast instead of him?

They couldn't understand why she had been cast instead of Jessica Tandy, who appeared alongside them in the first Broadway production.

She and Flaiano jump-started the career of Sophia Loren when they refused to sell the screenplay for "Too Bad She's Bad" unless Ms. Loren was cast instead of Gina Lollobrigida.

Friel thought she'd hit the jackpot after her highly acclaimed Broadway stage debut 11 years ago as Alice in Patrick Marber's Closer, only for Natalie Portman to be cast, instead of her, in the role for the movie version.

In the movie, Shirley MacLaine, who had once had a dustup with Reynolds over the lead role in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"—Reynolds was cast instead of her played the mother ("I was such an awful mother... what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner?"), and Meryl Streep played the daughter ("These are the options? You, Joan, or Lana?").

So if you're upset that Matt Damon is the star of The Great Wall, your issue isn't that William is a whitewashed Asian character, Damon is playing an Asian character, or that an Asian actor should have been cast instead of Damon — it's that you want The Great Wall to have a different story that would necessitate an Asian lead character.

However, Laura Allen was cast instead; McManus obtained the role of Tara (for which Allen originally auditioned).