How to Use casting couch in a Sentence

casting couch

noun

• By now, the idea of the casting couch should shock no one.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Apr. 2022
• One of the earliest known instances of casting couch behavior was not in the movies, but on Broadway.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• In 2017, Ben Zimmer analyzed the origins of the phrase casting couch in an article for The Atlantic.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2018
• There’s even a cozy euphemism: the casting couch, a metaphor that observers say has helped to normalize the practice and blur the lines of responsibility and blame in a way that promotes silence.
  — Noelle Swan, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2017
• Over three years ago, a woman was on the radio saying that Halle Berry’s manager was her worst casting couch experience ever.
  — Essence.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The evil behavior of Harvey Weinstein, in other words, goes far beyond the Hollywood casting couch.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• The phrase casting couch became linked to the Shuberts, at least in retrospect, as the etymologist Peter Tamony discovered.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
• Unlike other aspects of Jane’s routine, which includes menial yet haunting tasks like scrubbing stains off her boss’s casting couch, the Froot Loops don’t relay anything about the toxic behavior pervading her workplace.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020
• The moment, we’re given to understand, represents a dozen others like it, but while the casting couch isn’t news, the drama here is in seeing Marilyn’s special navigation of the toxicity of Hollywood’s harassment-meets-sugar-daddy culture.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024