Sentences with phrase «not as a detective»

The cover is blown here, in a sense; Rust is found out, albeit not as a detective.

Now this person can kill him and they're common in the book, but not as detectives.

Not exact matches

«Detectives maintain a «running report,» which is exactly that, a report that they continue completing as the case progresses and is not available for distribution until the detective has closed a case out, which may not be right away,» Segui wrote in an email to Business Insider.

He was not a talented CPA and then he failed just as bad as a gumshoe detective.

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• There are a lot of problems with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, not least the fact that, as he later admitted, he made up the climactic graveyard conversation between a detective and the murdered girl's best friend.

(Not that clergy have never before been portrayed as detectives — think of C. K. Chesterton's humble Father Brown, Ellis Peters's canny Brother Cadfael, or Brother William of Baskerville in Umberto Eco's marvelous The Name of the Rose.)

The characters of Comrade Detective voice the propaganda of communist superiority, but they know — as the ostensible 1980s audience would have — that it's not really true, and this reality drives the plot.

They wouldn't be so glib if they read P. D. James as a detective who doubts the human capacity «to be good without God.»

Be a detective, asking questions about what is upsetting her, although steer away from «why» questions with younger children, as they don't usually have answers to that even if the reason for the hit is apparent to you.

As a result of their objection, the Office of the Chief of Detectives advised that this analysis should not be conducted.»

Former Republican and now independent Bo Dietl had been seeking the Republican Party nod, but party leaders recently stated they would not be giving the former NYPD officer and private detective the Wilson - Pakula authorization needed to run as a non-Republican on the party's ballot line.

Labour launches a new poster campaign depicting David Cameron as the 1980's TV detective Gene Hunt accompanied by the slogan «don't let him take Britain back to the 1980s».

Stringer often lets his wife, Elyse Buxbaum, hitch a ride to and from work in his own detective - driven car — as long as he's also inside so they don't break any rules, sources have said.

«If you told me two - and - a-half years ago it was so screwed up, I wouldn't believe it,» Mr. Trotta said last week, referring to when he became a Suffolk County legislator after being a Suffolk Police officer for 25 years, most of these as a detective.

Brooke Simmons at the University of California in San Diego, who was not involved in the study, described the research as «careful detective work».

She's up for the challenge — so long as she doesn't break the first rule for disease detectives.

The Angels, played by Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Farrah Fawcett, fought crime as ably as men — and they were the first to do that on 70s prime - time TV, where detectives usually packed guns, not ovaries.

The clarity of dialogue is such that you don't feel as though you're eavesdropping on the conversations, you feel like you have an «access - all - areas» privilege to listen in to the detective's investigation and private lives.

As the world's greatest detective, Batman figured out that Lex Luthor was manipulating public opinion against Superman — and directly caused the bombing of the U.S. Capitol Building with all the death that entailed — yet still decided to go ahead with his plan to kill Superman because, I du n no, he'd already gone through all the prep and it'd be a shame to let those cool SFX go unused.

Detective Pikachu, as a character, is really quite special - but the game itself is unfortunately just not very much fun to play.

Pikachu is shown as an assertive man who can't live without his espresso, loves to crack jokes and speaks in deep baritone of a hard - boiled detective.

(Pretty cool to see Detective Carter from «Person of Interest» let her hair down...) It's definitely better than the 2nd and 3rd Hangover movies, though not as good as as the original or Bridesmaids.

However, as the detectives interview the participants and get each individual's perspective, they learn that Granny isn't so helpless, Red may have been doing more than just visiting relatives, the Wolf isn't the predator he's been cracked up to be, and the Woodman doesn't have much of an intellectual advantage over the trees he chops down.

Jack Nicholson stars in his first picture since his 1997 Oscar win as a retired detective who can't let go of a case.

[font = Century Gothic] «Le Petit Lieutenant» starts out with Antoine Derouere (Jalil Lespert) graduating from the police academy and chooses as his first assignment the detective squad in Paris, much to the consternation of his young wife, who does not want to leave her teaching job in Le Havre.

Their hopes of catching the killer are slim, as the detectives can't find a single shred of evidence.

The Nice Guys is a prototypical Shane Black film, saturated with all his earmarks as a filmmaker: Southern California, Christmas, private detectives, slapstick violence, explosions, people falling off of things, and a loosey - goosey plot that won't really hold up if you look too hard at it.

HBO had another stellar year of programming with offerings including «True Detective,» «Game of Thrones» and the final season of «Boardwalk Empire,» but fear not subscribers, 2015 might be just as good, if not better.

Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective - avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category.

The story and journey of «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» isn't cohesive as elements, like a police detective investigation, are never realized, built upon, or returned to.

The detective, played by a 19 - year - old Asian Argento, not only falls victim to the very man she is tracking but to a rare sickness known as Stendhal Syndrome.

dragged into a horrific murder, and Barnett as Dirk Gently, the eccentric, British «holistic detective» (don't ask) who shows up in Todd's apartment to insinuate himself into the case.

Even though his name is on the box, I didn't expect Detective Pikachu the character to be as good as he is.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

While the ending wasn't as fulfilling as I'd hoped, it does leave the door open for Detective Pikachu 2, something I am already looking forward to.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.

While the detective is ambitious in wanting to stop the criminal, he is still contending with his own disappointment for not stopping Jacob when they first crossed paths, as well the frustration from his superiors for not following orders during the robbery.

Hirsch is best known as being the creator of Disney's the cult favourite «Gravity Falls,» so with him and Perlman both being in the mix, should they do end up writing it, Detective Pikachu might just wind up being a film worth watching for those who aren't Pokémon fans, as well as the ones that are.

This is why we love Simon Pegg; not only is the man hilarious but he even fooled Cumberbatch (perhaps most well - known for his role as detective Sherlock Holmes on British TV - guess none of that rubbed off on him, eh?).

The producers used to refer to the series as «a novel», and she makes the brilliant point that: «Not only does The Wire demonstrate the ingenuity of dealers and detectives as they elude each other, but surveillance itself becomes the show's metaphor for what drama does in listening in on the world.»

It doesn't quite find that link, leaning more toward the Sherlock character, while Gnomeo and Juliet's relationship is seen as a reflection of the tenuous bond between the detective and his professional partner.

This brave appraisal of fear and uncertainty elevates The Stranger above any run - of - the - mill detective story, qualifying it as a horror - tinged film noir, even if it doesn't always evenly line up with the genre.

He's no Morgan Freeman and he's hard to buy as a police detective, so when having to wield a big gun or turn into Charles «now it's personal» Bronson mode, it's hard not to giggle.

Although Poitier did not receive a nomination, he reprised his role as Detective Tibbs in two other films, They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories...

One of the more interesting things about the show is how Stahl seems to resent her supposed perfection, as she feels like she hasn't earned her high - ranking detective position, because of it.

Admittedly, Martin's turn as the bumbling French detective wasn't as bad as Roberto Benigni in Son Of The Pink Panther, but the idea of him taking another stab at the dodgy Gallic accent fills us with dread.

Healy is hired by porn actress Amelia (Margaret Qualley) to protect her after fellow porn star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) was recently involved in a car accident, which leads Misty's aunt to hire private detective Holland March (Gosling) to find out whether her niece is actually dead or not as she claims to have seen her.

I still remember my astonishment, sustained throughout the film, at his feature debut The Element of Crime — this blasted black - and - white world served up in curry - sauce monochrome, with an obviously English detective making his way through an obviously not - English city trying to solve a series of crimes — a climate of crime, really — which as I recall never did reach any identifiable conclusion.