Examples of downcast

• As confinement is a downwards-closed property of the type system, downcasts cannot violate encapsulation.

• More somber than usual, he seemed thoroughly downcast and withdrawn.

• Facing it were four divisions, three of which were downcast due to the previous successive setbacks.

• The astonished fiancée stands with mouth agape, eyes downcast and shut, as she presses her left hand beneath her heart, as if to uphold it.

• Not only that, but the emphatically rising gesture is followed every time by downcast gestures.

• The painting's meaning, in turn, becomes more shaded, even as her half-shaded visage and downcast eyes screen the nun's emotions from the viewer.

• The downcast farmer went home but the accordion had come to stay.

• In a way, that makes me feel extremely sad and downcast.