Sentence examples for lousy detective from inspiring English sources
IT MADE a lousy detective story.
A lousy detective gets the phone book and interviews people starting on page 1.
A really lousy detective also considers space invaders and escaped baboons, and inquires with NASA and the local zoo to pursue those leads.
Marlene Dietrich said of Orson Welles's Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil that he was "a great detective but a lousy cop", a judgment that could equally be applied to Brendan Gleeson's corrupt but deeply lovable Connemara policeman, Sergeant Gerry Boyle, in John Michael McDonagh's The Guard.
Her first line in that picture, first in German then in English, was: 'Won't you go away?' She subsequently delivered a succession of unforgettable lines both on stage and off, including: 'It took more than one man to make me Shanghai Lily' (Shanghai Express) and 'He was a great detective, but a lousy cop' (Orson Welles's Touch of Evil).
From the now classic opening long-take to the final sequence where Marlene Dietrich contributes to the last exchange ("Hank was a great detective all right" – "And a lousy cop") the film grabs you by both lapels.
I went to work as an intern for a socially conscious documentary filmmaker, and did a lousy job of sorting footage of a lesbian detective, while Noah sat at home updating his invisible blog.
"It's lousy, lousy, lousy," Pucher said.
