Sentence examples for procedural in which from inspiring English sources

We've all read (and reread) the police procedural in which a morose cop with a bad conscience becomes fixated on a case that reflects on his secret guilt.

We have moved from the regressive logic of the sitcom, in which nothing really happens, to the recursive logic of the police procedural, in which the same thing keeps happening — the same detectives, solving and re-solving the same crimes.

Regrettably, the imbroglio may draw the media and the public into complex details of a Washington procedural, in which, as in a "House of Cards" plot, there is presumed to be no moral center.

Lewis was coming off "Life," a decisive failure of an NBC police procedural, in which he'd played the lead character, a homicide detective with a passion for fresh fruit.

A real-life police procedural in which a graduate of Hell's Kitchen who kills two men to settle an argument is run to earth by patient legwork and an appealingly straight-arrow investigator.

For a good part of the movie, we're watching a C.I.A. procedural, in which an official played by Chris Cooper screams at personnel tracking Bourne's progress across Europe on computers and maps.

LIGAYA: In general, the Scandinavian thrillers that have made it to our shores have been police procedurals, in which a brooding, melancholy detective struggles, without much optimism, to solve a crime the polar opposite of the sexually nimble semi-action hero Blomkvist.

LIGAYA: In general, the Scandinavian thrillers that have made it to our shores have been police procedurals, in which a brooding, melancholy detective struggles, without much optimism, to solve a crime — the polar opposite of the sexually nimble semi-action hero Blomkvist.

A police procedural story in which the procedures are totally different from those in the United States can make things tough to follow, and "The Interview" is perpetually in mid-twist.

The scene lays down a marker for the film's status as something like a forensic thriller and in its way a procedural thriller, in which the covert procedure itself is the crime.

This is followed by the procedural stage in which knowledge is incorporated into the procedures for performing the skill.