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Dern


Definition:

  • (n.) A gatepost or doorpost.
  • (a.) Hidden; concealed; secret.
  • (a.) Solitary; sad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
  • (2) It is not known which actors will make the final cast, though agents for Madsen and Dern were publicly accused of leaking the script by its architect in January.
  • (3) Dern, all windblown white hair and stubble, is often entirely silent and withdrawn, and all the more compelling and poignant for that.
  • (4) JF: Somewhere along in there, I thought, because it was becoming clear that this was becoming a love story: a triangle between a woman who was an officer's wife - and he was the kind of real gung-ho, I'm-gonna-go-I'm-gonna-be-a-hero; Bruce Dern played that part - and Jon Voight, who doesn't have the bottom part of his body.
  • (5) Starring Bruce Dern, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Kurt Russell in the story of eight 19th-century travellers trapped in a stagecoach stopover after a blizzard hits Wyoming, it is tipped to be part of the 2016 Oscars conversation.
  • (6) Dern seems to have subtracted half of his own mind and awareness for the part, and this draws the audience toward him to find out, or guess at, the things his old age incites.
  • (7) Television Best Series, Drama: Homeland, Showtime Best Series, Musical or Comedy: Modern Family, ABC Best Actor, Drama: Kelsey Grammer, Boss Best Actress, Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Laura Dern, Enlightened Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Matt LeBlanc, Episodes Best Miniseries or Movie: Downton Abbey (Masterpiece), PBS Best Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce Best Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Idris Elba, Luther Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Morgan Freeman
  • (8) Others have Bruce Dern as their dark horse, for Nebraska , but I’m not feeling any vibrations on the tracks.
  • (9) Tarantino planned a film in 70mm, an unusual and expensive format recently used by Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master , and there would have been plum roles for Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L Jackson, the site says.
  • (10) "Douglas," she tweeted, while attending HBO's after awards party, "still smarts from Dern's Cannes win."
  • (11) CAA , the agency that works for Dern, has denied suggestions it is responsible for the script's release into the public domain.
  • (12) Ejiofor is the runaway frontrunner for the best dramatic actor Globe, while 77-year-old Bruce Dern looks to have the edge in the neighbouring category thanks to his role as a desperate American dreamer in Payne's black-and-white Nebraska.
  • (13) In their place are four men, a Southern general (likely Dern), an alleged hangman, a Frenchman named Bob and a cowboy named Joe Gage.
  • (14) More pertinently, this year also marks the first Oscar nomination for British actor Sally Hawkins for her supporting role in Blue Jasmine , while Bruce Dern, nominated for best actor for Nebraska , last troubled the Oscar voters in 1979 for the Hal Ashby-directed Vietnam vet drama Coming Home.
  • (15) What an unadulterated joy it is to see Bruce Dern leading a movie for a change – and a good movie, at that.
  • (16) We have also repeated the transfusion experiment of Dern et al.
  • (17) Justified's Walton Goggins, Dexter's James Remar, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern fill out the other major roles.
  • (18) According to influential blogger Anne Thompson , Douglas also sees the Emmy as compensation for his performance being passed over at Cannes for the best actor award, in favour of Bruce Dern in Nebraska .
  • (19) Played by Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern respectively, David and Jason Staebler are the last gasp of an America that is visibly dying all around them.
  • (20) The script reading featured Walton Goggins, James Remar, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Amber Tamblyn and Bruce Dern, as well as Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson .

Dorn


Definition:

  • (n.) A British ray; the thornback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (2) Dorn, G. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y.), and W. Rivera.
  • (3) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
  • (4) Dorne, a part of the Seven Kingdoms, sends the second son of its ruling family to attend the upcoming Royal Wedding, as a calculated insult.
  • (5) The sedimentation potential or the Dorn effect occurs when heavy particles fall in a liquid.
  • (6) Previous studies in this laboratory have led to the identification of the 47-kDa cell binding protein of the AF, using the monoclonal antibody (mab) 5D2-D11 [Gramzow M, Bachmann M, Zahn RK, Uhlenbruck G, Dorn A, Müller WEG, J Cell Biol, 102: 1344-1349, 1986].
  • (7) A questionnaire was sent to diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics to determine changing trends in the treatment of endodontic emergencies since Dorn's survey 10 yr ago.
  • (8) In this paper the theory is used to interpret H. B. Dorn's data on the incidence of 21 kinds of cancer in both male and female Americans.
  • (9) This article describes a system of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting implemented at WJB Dorn Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina, which involves reviewing all inpatient charts by medical record technicians for possible ADRs and notifying the chief pharmacist for investigation.
  • (10) The oblique parasagittal diameter of the lumbar spinal canal at the L5-S1 level was measured in 49 employees of the Wm Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital using real time ultrasound in a case-control study.
  • (11) "Certainly the most destructive part of the Bush environmental legacy is not only his failure to act on global climate change, but his administration's covert attempt to silence the science alerting us to the urgency of the problem," said Jonathan Dorn of the Earth Policy Institute (EPA) in Washington.
  • (12) All spinach r-proteins that cross-reacted with antisera to chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins of C. reinhardtii are known to be made in the chloroplast (Dorne et al.
  • (13) In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity.
  • (14) A cohort of nearly 300,000 insured veterans (Dorn Cohort), experienced a much greater percent decline in CHD death rate over the period, 1954-1979, than the population of the U.S., while for stroke, the percent decline in death rate was virtually the same as the U.S. For CHD, greater percent declines were noted over the study period for non-smokers compared to cigarette smokers, for professionals compared to non-professionals and for persons with high socioeconomic scores (SES) compared to those with low scores.
  • (15) Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old.
  • (16) In a much-cited 2013 study , for example, economists David Autor of MIT and David Dorn of Spain’s CEMFI institute found that because computers could now be substituted for low-skill workers performing routine tasks (book-keeping, clerical work and repetitive production and monitoring activities) we were going to see a “hollowing-out” of middle-skilled, middle-wage jobs and “a corresponding rise in employment at both the high and low ends of the skills spectrum”.
  • (17) We analyzed the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey, a sample of 18,733 U.S. death certificates, and the 1954-1962 Dorn study, a follow-up study of approximately 250,000 holders of U.S. Veterans Life Insurance.
  • (18) Two german physicians, Andreas Röschlaub and Anton Dorn, were against this project; they realised the possible results to man's health.
  • (19) Hypotheses about the extent, persistence, and constancy for different causes of the healthy worker effect are evaluated using the data of the Dorn Study of Mortality Among US Veterans.
  • (20) As the Dorne prince menacingly says to Tyrion: "Tell your father I'm here!

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