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Example sentences for: vanessa

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Her "overwrought prose has gone grotesquely rococo," says Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman.
Well, actually, yes, about a million things (car chases, ocean liners taking on water) when the words are Virginia Woolf's and the face is Vanessa Redgrave's.
The New York Times ' Ben Brantley calls this production of the Shakespeare play, directed by Vanessa Redgrave, "jaw-droppingly bizarre."
The other story is the love affair between a luckless torch singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a luckless ex-fisherman (David Strathairn), in which the two--through a series of melodramatic contrivances that testify to Sayles' lack of ingenuity as a storyteller--end up together with the singer's brilliant, desperately unhappy daughter (Vanessa Martinez) on a remote island, where they're prey to cold, starvation, and drug smugglers with shotguns.
Early in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me , the stumpy, snaggletoothed British secret agent (Mike Myers) survives an assassination attempt by his new bride, Vanessa (Elizabeth Hurley), who turns out to have been a "fembot" programmed by his nemesis, Dr. Evil (also Myers), to blow up the couple's honeymoon suite after 15 rounds of zealous humping.