Hordern
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The first play he saw was The Tempest, with Prospero played by Michael Hordern.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
For the theater, he used his medical experience to direct Michael Hordern as a senile King Lear and elicited a major performance from Olivier himself as a Shylock intended to resemble a 19th-century Rothschild.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
“Who Bought the Most Expensive Album Ever Made?” by Devin Leonard and Annmarie Hordern, Bloomberg Businessweek The worst person in pharma bought the world’s most expensive album.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015
Hordern is marvellous, mumbling his way through Whistle with a detached arrogance, either oblivious to, or in denial about, the creepy events the whistle has summoned.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2012
Mr. Hordern was down with dysentery for between five and six weeks, Mr. Macpherson eight weeks, Mr. Tuckey had Natal fever for three weeks, and all of them were left very enfeebled.
From From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by Allen, R. W.
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