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
He also issued in 1767 an edition of the Psalms in metre, one of the earliest books printed from type cast in America.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)
Linotype Baskerville is a facsimile cutting from type cast from the original matrices of a face designed by John Baskerville.
From This Simian World by Day, Clarence
