Sentence examples for gangster codes from inspiring English sources

That's no surprise, given that Mr. Woo has always been fascinated by gangster codes of honor and by the glimmers of humanity lurking in seemingly coldblooded killers.

On Thursday night, the host of "The Daily Show" riffed on Paula Deen's liberal use of both butter and racial slurs, chatted about journalism with Tom Brokaw and parodied the gangster code of honor that has been in the news in the Whitey Bulger trial.

The stripper was a low-life character, a drug-addled unfit mother, yet even by the gangsters' code she didn't deserve to die.

"He represents the rebellious lawbreaker that secretly resides in all of us," Louis Ferrante, a former mobster and host of Inside the Gangsters' Code, tells VICE.

His gangster's code of honor, he has insisted, does not countenance the killing of women.

In the indictment, prosecutors described how the gangsters used codes in an effort to avoid detection while conducting illegal deals over the phone.

For all Mr. Schickler's grand gestures and references -- one gangster's code word is Charon, as in the ferryman at the river Styx -- his book's biggest ambitions seem more tacked-on than innate.

The result is a muddy, indistinct, un-absorbing film that showcases nothing much besides the same old enthusiasm – maybe even nostalgia – for ancient and obsolete gangster rituals and codes, the very cliches that Whitey Bulger himself exploded.

-- this generation of young directors has turned to the creaky mythology of the Japanese yakuza, the tattooed gangsters whose elaborate codes of behavior once inspired filmmakers like Yasuzo Masumura and Kinji Fukasaku.

The most violent and controversial Pre-Code gangster film was undoubtedly Scarface.

Some critics have named Scarface (1932) as the most incendiary Pre-Code gangster film.