For Fincher, I would guess, the identity of the killer is less important than the vast effort of almost (but not quite) finding him.
And when viewers do make excuses for fictional criminals, it's usually because those characters inhabit distinctive, hermetic worlds — the Jersey mafia on "The Sopranos," West Baltimore on "The Wire" — in which becoming a killer is less a decision than an inheritance, which we can root for them to escape from or rise above.
The younger killers are less emotionally detached and more susceptible to peer influence, experts said.
While the goalie and captain got the headlines in Game 4, other key contributions were less conspicuous, as Lynn Zinser writes in today's Times: "Strong performances from centers Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky and the team's penalty killers were less obvious.
It isn't just courts that have recognized that, because of different brain chemistry, adolescent killers are less culpable than adults.
The effect of natural killer cell deficiency on other pathogens is less clear, although they have been shown to protect against murine malaria (12 ).
Previous studies showed that aged human and murine natural killer cells are less cytotoxic in vitro and contain reduced proportions of mature NK cells (Nogusa et al., 2008, 2012; Fang et al., 2010; Almeida-Oliveira et al., 2011; Beli et al., 2011, 2014; Hazeldine et al., 2012; Chiu et al., 2013).
Amazon, however, is less a killer it merely provides a way of doing something faster and cheaper.
Amazon, however, is less a killer it merely provides a way of doing something faster, better, cheaper.
Atomization of holy war comes at a price, Stratfor added: The would-be killers may be less skillful than trained ones, and less committed.
Of course, many startups are already tackling some of these areas, which is why Wilson thinks the real killer apps will be less obvious until they hit us.
