Sentence examples for improbable crime from inspiring English sources

There are heist pictures that offer careful and detailed accounts of criminal procedure, generating suspense by focusing on the precise arrangements necessary to bring a brazen and improbable crime to fruition.

The trial wove together the lurid details of a savage mob murder, the victim's clumsy dismemberment in a supposedly haunted Victorian mansion and an improbable organized crime associate whose MySpace page listed his occupation as "death".

There is a moment in "Adam's Rib" — in which she plays a lawyer married to Tracy, a lawyer opposing her in a case about Judy Holliday's being accused of a comically improbable and touching crime passionnel — when she bends down with the greatest intellectual dignity to look at her husband under the lawyers' table from the opposite end and shows him her petticoat.

In trying to make a traditional weekly drama out of the activities of Mr. Boyd (here named William Banks) and his team of interventionists, the producers have concocted an improbable hybrid of crime procedural and uplifting soap opera, a sort of "Mission: Intervention".

As long as crime is improbable for the average address, and somewhat dispersed across a jurisdiction, large areas will always have less concentration than tiny areas.

Several "confessed" to an improbable range of political crimes, including treason.

To explain his crime, Acevedo related an improbable-sounding story: members of a drug gang kidnapped him and his cousin, then told him that they would kill his cousin unless he killed Martin.

Conley's four affidavits each new statement renouncing the last developed the elaborate and, by all accounts, improbable story of his participation in a crime he attributed to Frank.

It is also thought not improbable that she hoped to blackmail him after the crime.

O'Malley needed to show crime reduction stats that were not only improbable, but unsustainable without manipulation.

"O'Malley needed to show crime reduction stats that were not only improbable, but unsustainable without manipulation," Simon said.