Sentence examples for detective action from inspiring English sources

Nearly a decade later he returned, modestly, with his directorial debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a smallish, sideways take on the wisecracking detective action genre he'd spearheaded.

The defense lawyers cited early remarks by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that were critical of the detectives' actions that night.

The police have disputed that account, and a police official went further yesterday, providing more details of the detectives' actions.

The ruling specifically upheld the Siegels' copyright in the Superman material published in Detective Comics' Action Comics Vol. 1.

It is his son's connection to the mystery that forces the reluctant, now elderly detective into action.

Full disclosure of the facts and what led to the shooting will reveal that our detective's actions were justified.

"I have confidence that the detective's actions were appropriate and justified," said Michael J. Palladino, the president of the union, the Detectives' Endowment Association.

An official at the Brooklyn district attorney's office, which is investigating, said the detective's actions seemed justified.

The detective's actions came after Mr. Carton and his co-host disclosed Web postings by state troopers that threatened a "ticket blitz" in response to criticism of troopers' role in a car crash involving Gov. Jon S. Corzine in April.

But Conan Doyle appears to have conceived his detectives as action characters, too, alluding to Watson's military service, to boxing matches and gunfights, and to Holmes's use of the martial art baritsu (he most likely meant bartitsu).

He uses a bevy of TV reporters to recap the plot for the audience and a police detective to describe action that can't be duplicated onstage.