While all of Mr. Cavell's protagonists are tense young men, Mr. Alexie works with a broader cast of characters.

Could not disguise, either, the broad Mongolian cast of her countenance.

His teeth and wide, flaring gills gave his head a broad, stubborn cast.

This became apparent in the news broad cast from a South African Radio Station known as Lesedi.

The broadcast was just that, broad cast, not tight-beamed to the listening post.

He describes his broad cast of characters with insight and care.

An "excellent" history of the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland that details the "broad cast of characters with insight and care."

With a practised ease and careful gauge, she threw in a broad cast to left and right, watching and counting the thorn sprays to be sure she had triggered every bush.

In 1987-88 out of a total of 66 prime-time shows being broad cast there were no such shows where the network was either a producer or a co-producer.

Liberman is also the founder of (and frequent contributor to) Language Log, a blog with a broad cast of dozens of professional linguists.