Sentence examples for confidential style from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES — It had all the makings of another turbulent moment for the Los Angeles Police Department, an agency once notorious for an "L.A. Confidential" style of heavy-handed policing, hostile relations with minorities and corruption.

A joint effort by the Times columnist Thomas Friedman and the Johns Hopkins professor Michael Mandelbaum, and written in a cozy, confidential style (there are frequent references to what "Michael" has written elsewhere and what "Tom" has seen in India and China), it accepts that the post-9/11 obsession with the Islamic threat and the War on Terror was a catastrophic national distraction.

While she's mastered the short-­attention-span form, Wizenberg can be wincingly twee, writing in a confidential style that flips into blog mode and addresses the reader directly: "I learned that kissing a man while leaning against a warm dishwasher is a lovely, lovely experience.

"And tell me," he wrote to Burger, "when one is being frogmarched by life, does one giggle or does one try to maintain as much dignity as possible?" If Vonnegut's German experience shaped his folksy, confidential style, which made readers feel he was looking them in the eye, it also created the gaps in his spirit that were filled by addictions – alcohol and nicotine – and by bouts of depression.

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The movie holds you, but it's like "L.A. Confidential" without style.

Henderson says that if confidential files were leaked, "a RAT-style malware attack which allowed exfiltration of documents" may be responsible.

Okay, so we've all heard of hackers bringing corporations to their knees with viruses, leaking confidential info and even attacking government websites but setting style trends?

His manner is intense, confidential.

But I counter that sometimes the language of film can capture the texture of a text, or a style of a book's prose -- as with "L.A. Confidential," adapted from the novel by James Ellroy.

In Utah, Confidential follows the director's quest to find the perfect movie-style backdrop to one of the most ambitious scenes to date.