The years of casual inscriptions bored into its surface have recast it as a kind of monument, or at least document, for social exchanges.
And, as Mark Steyn once pointed out, comparing what Bart did with Dickens to what Disney did with Kipling's Jungle Book, the composer took the source material and recast it in another form, consistent in its own tone.
To see the photo this way does not undermine its environmental relevance — but it does recast it.
I take something familiar, intuitive and ubiquitous and recast it in a manner that will redefine its use to drive profound change".
To try and clarify Summers's thesis and illuminate its strengths and weaknesses, I'll recast it in a way that should be more familiar: in terms of supply and demand.
Recast it or break it up.
"Would you change 'Gypsy,' or would you just recast it?
He recast it instead in his own image: bold, bumptious, fun and feisty.
Now, revised and recast, it has reopened at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
Today, the town's boosters have recast it in the role of telecommunications superpower.
It was the Victorians who recast it as an altogether more upright activity.
