What's the difference between miscast and recast?

Miscast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast or reckon wrongly.
  • (n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Wall: "Mark van Bommel has been wrongly vilified and miscast as a serial fouler.
  • (2) I was miscast in the play of life, and it was urgent that I admit that, sooner rather than later.
  • (3) The remake runs on rails from A to Z, and what Wiseman gains in his grimy, ill-lit visuals he loses in the acting: everyone here is a name actor who bores me (Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale – AKA Mrs Wiseman), or an actor I love (Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy) being underused or miscast.
  • (4) Reviewing the film in the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw derided it as "a humourless slice of tourist gastro-porn" and claimed that Crowe was hopelessly miscast in the role.
  • (5) "I always felt that I had been miscast," he has said.
  • (6) The cityscape is an urban collage of late medieval squares, art nouveau masterpieces and (post)modern miscasts.
  • (7) I can't help feeling that as a former corporate tax lawyer, married to a corporate tax lawyer, and a chap who used taxpayers' money for stamp duty on his second home move , he is somewhat miscast as the Simon Wiesenthal of hunting down tax avoiders.
  • (8) It shot Terence Stamp to stardom but was a near-disaster, partly because to guarantee backing, Ustinov had to miscast himself as the idealistic but impotent authority figure, Captain Vere.
  • (9) Various stars are suggested, all miscast and not even stars.
  • (10) While earlier assessments had placed the number of Yazidis on Mount Sinjar in the tens of thousands, Kirby resisted assertions that US intelligence, aided by nearly 60 daily surveillance flights over Iraq, had miscast the situation.
  • (11) But the percentages are entirely out of whack; something is being miscast.
  • (12) Midnight – which was simply a terrible, badly written, howlingly miscast and miserably executed sex-and-violence potboiler – sank without a trace in a then conventional slow-motion, region-by-region release.
  • (13) Hughes is now approaching the fifth anniversary of his 2009 dismissal, minutes after Manchester City beat Sunderland 4-3, and when they had already lined up his successor, Roberto Mancini, and if he was miscast as a manager of a super-rich club with vaunting ambition, this was proof that he has often excelled with a lesser budget and a competitive group of players who savour their status as underdogs.
  • (14) Others thought it partly reflected a piece of miscasting.
  • (15) He thought he was miscast: he was from a farm in Indiana and had no street sense whatsoever.

Recast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw again.
  • (v. t.) To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.
  • (v. t.) To compute, or cast up, a second time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Independence will give us the chance to recast our social security system for the future," she said.
  • (2) This summer, if all goes to plan, the metaphor will be vividly recast: the Globe's stage will itself become a world.
  • (3) It is this sense of being helpless, of being forgotten, of having the social settlement recast in ways that takes away while offering nothing in return, and, above all, of not being heard that so inflames not just students but huge swaths of the British.
  • (4) Recasting is often a semi-colon now, not a full-stop.
  • (5) Perhaps the contrast should now be recast as that between the constitution’s embarrassable and unembarrassable parts.
  • (6) This much is all reassuring, as was his recognition that the whole mould of politics has been recast by the Liberal-Conservative deal, even though he did not spell out what he thought this meant for Labour .
  • (7) Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Abbott as prime minister in September and recast the national security debate by emphasising mutual respect , has responded by saying that it was important not to tag all Muslims with responsibility for the crimes of a few.
  • (8) Tokyo, like London, offers a city already established on the world stage the opportunity to recast itself in the eyes of the world and its own public.
  • (9) Downing Street itself billed the reshuffle, the only major recasting of government planned ahead of the 2015 election, as an attempt to promote ministers capable of delivering on policies already announced.
  • (10) On Monday Clegg brushed off a question about the timing of the review, which is expected to report around the time of Labour's special conference, when Ed Miliband will aim to recast Labour's relationship with the unions.
  • (11) That could recast the broader political outlook, potentially to the benefit of liberals alarmed by what they see as Bo's leftist tendencies.
  • (12) With the conductivity a different constant in different regions, the variational principle is recast in terms of the charge density on the surfaces of discontinuity.
  • (13) The next morning, as the Lib Dems tried to come to terms with a media that had, overnight, recast their leader from insipid also-ran to hero, poll results that Clegg could not have dreamed of 24 hours earlier were still pouring out.
  • (14) Obama's address comes amid his steady loss of ground on efforts to recast America's approach to fighting terrorism.
  • (15) Although Top Gear has been around for almost 40 years, it was completely reinvented by Clarkson, recast in the distinct mould of his formidable personality.
  • (16) More fundamental, however, is recasting the way in which we do business.
  • (17) Nonetheless, a recasting of relations is compelling for a secretary of state eager to reclaim territory after the foreign policy crises in the Middle East and Afghanistan were hived off to envoys.
  • (18) On Gillard’s account the entire battle is recast.
  • (19) Universal credit , the government's recasting of the welfare benefits system, has had to be reorganised so fundamentally that the government watchdog responsible for grading its implementation has judged that it is now an entirely new project.
  • (20) But a recast could see Labor campaign more aggressively against the perceived weaknesses of Tony Abbott, contradicting its promise to run a positive campaign.

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