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- proper noun A
surname "ofDanish origin".
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Judi Dench is ... just so damn good at everything.
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Jason Clark in Slant: "Dench is the best thing about this deliciously overheated melodrama, directed with too-brisk economy by Richard Eyre (Stage Beauty) and scored with typical whiplash by Philip Glass, whose orchestral headaches actually work in this context."
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Judi Dench is dying to get to know you better, yet you’ve not returned her many emails.
April 2006 2006
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Judi Dench is dying to get to know you better, yet you’ve not returned her many emails.
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Any one who may be curious enough to consult Rev. Elias Nason's book, called "Sir Charles Henry Frankland, or Boston in the Colonial Times," will see there a full description of the old manor-house which in this story is called the Dench House.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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The newspaper report says Theophilus Parsons called Dench to order (1185), but Parsons’s own notes say Dana called him to order and that he, Parsons, intervened against a subsequent speaker (1198).
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The newspaper report says Theophilus Parsons called Dench to order (1185), but Parsons’s own notes say Dana called him to order and that he, Parsons, intervened against a subsequent speaker (1198).
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The newspaper report says Theophilus Parsons called Dench to order (1185), but Parsons’s own notes say Dana called him to order and that he, Parsons, intervened against a subsequent speaker (1198).
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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As great and as beautiful as all of these actresses are, Judi Dench will steal the movie.
The women of 'Nine' don't look like they've been eating four-hour dinners... | EW.com 2009
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The impressive cast includes Judi Dench as a fashion critic, Steve Buscemi as a photographer, Eddie Izzard as a mogul, Dianne Weist as a fashion house manager, and John Leguizamo as a bodyguard.
Jude Law in drag and other fashion fun from Sally Potter | EW.com 2009
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