type cast

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Are you afraid of being type cast as the romantic hero?

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2012

Because of excessive ornamentation in his earlier work, Yamasaki's critics have tended to type cast him as an "exterior decorator," or cosmetician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just once Winston caught a phrase— “complete and final elimination of Goldsteinism”—jerked out very rapidly and, as it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid.

From "1984" by George Orwell

The foregoing refers more particularly to type cast by the regular foundries.

From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by Stewart, A. A.

The man who came to meet him was a soldier too, but of a different type, cast in another mould—a Frenchman, emotional, easily excited, quick in gesture, rapid-speaking, with a restless, fiery eye.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur