What's the difference between dern and secrecy?

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  • (3) Dern, all windblown white hair and stubble, is often entirely silent and withdrawn, and all the more compelling and poignant for that.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 .

Secrecy


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
  • (n.) That which is concealed; a secret.
  • (n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
  • (n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
  • (2) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
  • (3) The secrecy worries me if those decisions are being made without giving us the ability to hold them to account,” says Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff.
  • (4) National newspapers and the BBC have joined forces to oppose Hague's secrecy application and on Friday expressed their dismay at the ruling.
  • (5) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
  • (6) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
  • (7) The company was “owned” by four bearer shareholders, which gave it an extra degree of secrecy.
  • (8) Secrecy was encouraged and bribery, threats, and peer pressure used to induce participation in sexual activities.
  • (9) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
  • (10) It's believed to be the first time an appeals court delayed an execution based on the issue of drug secrecy.
  • (11) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
  • (12) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
  • (13) Their secrecy and diminished footprint make them harder than conventional wars to oppose and hold to account – though the backlash in countries bearing the brunt is bound to grow.
  • (14) These efforts don't solve the problem of government surveillance and secrecy.
  • (15) The engineer said he was concerned that the nuclear industry and local political system had a reputation for considerable secrecy that would not make it easy to discern what had gone wrong.
  • (16) The practice of HIV-tests for exclusion purpose promotes a tendency to secrecy, which is unfavourable to the social and medical control of the epidemic, especially because medical secret relatively to insurances is insufficient.
  • (17) "What the Guardian is highlighting is the vital role of secrecy in offshore abuse.
  • (18) Speaking on his LBC 97.3 radio show, Clegg said he strongly supported the need for secrecy by the intelligence agencies but there needed to be proper accountability as current regulation was quite opaque.
  • (19) In effect, we need all leaders to move health and social care organisations from fragmentation to integration; from tribes to interdisciplinary and inter-organisational teams; from internal focus to external focus; from domination and control to enabling collaboration; from secrecy to transparency; and from conflict and conflict avoidance to working through.
  • (20) • Apple has been able to draw a secrecy veil over its Irish operations by making extensive use of unlimited companies, which are not required to file company accounts.