Sentence examples for crime style from inspiring English sources

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Zinnemann honed his detached, documentarylike style with shorts like "Help Wanted" (1939), starring Tom Neal as a temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket, and impressed Chertok so much that he produced Zinnemann's first feature, "Kid Glove Killer" (1942), a crime thriller with Van Heflin as a scientific investigator very much in the "Crime" style.

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Both have decided to write in the true-crime style, which entails occasionally telling us what people may have thought or felt, or presenting as quoted dialogue unrecorded private scenes from long ago — an unfortunate decision, given how much the story turns on the trustworthiness of journalism.

Mr. Simmons and Mr. Ozah mostly let these voices carry the load, throwing in an occasional animated sequence or true-crime-style effect to recreate events.

It sounds very much like there is some Holovaty-esque Chicago crime-style Google Mappage on the cards too: development director Ian Davies said this will allow new types of reporting because 'the newsroom will be able to refer back to all the crimes that have been reported on one particular street'.

The second is a crime against style.

In "The Last Hipster" Brennan Bestwick regards the zombie hordes as a crime against style, a ghastly parade of clichés.

The program analyzes the crime "CSI" style, and from Bulgarian and Soviet files picks out some likely culprits.

When it comes to crime drama style, The Killing heroine Sarah Lund and The Bridge's Saga Noren have long slayed the prime-time competition.

Sadly, she is a fictional being, lodged in the world according to Shane Black — a livid, pulpish environment where failure to possess a gun is, if not a criminal offense, at least a crime against style.

The idea behind it was to help fight crime (Batman style) by inhibiting the method of delivering ransom and extortion calls.

When Saddam Hussein fell in Iraq, or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, that great moment of national catharsis when their palaces were stormed revealed not just crimes against the state, but crimes against style.

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