Sentences with phrase «only real crime»

The Clutch G1 is a perfectly competent mouse with a reasonable price tag; its only real crime is that other mice have taken the exact same concept and done it better.

Indeed from Wall Street's and Bay Street's viewpoint getting caught was their only real crime.

Not exact matches

Until any poster actually a commits a real crime the only thing you can do is get all huffy and cry about it, which we all know works so well in any school yard.

«I think that not only are Cameron and Osborne two posh boys who don't know the price of milk, but they are two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others — and that is their real crime.»

«As a city where more than 300 languages are spoken, London has a proud history of tolerance and diversity and to suggest there are areas where police officers can not go because of radicalisation is simply ridiculous... Crime has been falling steadily both in London and in New York - the only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump»

«And that's not just New York, it's a problem all across the country and it's a problem in reality and it's a problem in perception and if it's a problem only in perception, it is still a real problem because people have to trust the justice system and the trust has to go both ways,» Cuomo said, speaking about police and community, but also referring to the oft - cited conflict of interest around police and prosecutors who regularly work together but can then be at odds when an officer is suspected of a crime.

«That's because they weren't really using their memory of the culprit's face, they were just picking the only plausible option — the only one with the scar that they remembered from the crime video — and this made it difficult for people to tell the difference between the real culprit and an innocent suspect who had a similar feature.»

The Ballad of Lefty Brown Rated R for violence and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 80 % Available on Disc and Streaming Yet another decent Western this year, The Ballad of Lefty Brown stars Bill Pullman as the titular character: a cowboy who witnesses the death of his partner, only to be blamed for the crime and forced to both prove his innocence and bring the real criminals to justice.

How this all happens is absolutely fascinating, beginning with the arrival of the FBI and Special Agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon), who uses a warehouse to re-create entire city streets and the crime scene; Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman), who runs the show with nerves of steel; Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese (JK Simmons), the Watertown cop who finds himself in the middle of a shootout with the culprits; Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (Michael Beach); Dun Meng (an excellent and scene - stealing Jimmy O. Yang), the young Chinese man who was carjacked and kidnapped by the pair, only to turn the tables on them; and of course the Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (Themo Meilikidze) and the younger Dzhokhar (Alex Wolff), who both look and act so eerily like the real thing it is positively chilling to watch them.

Meaning that the only thing «based on true events» about Prey at Night is that the general idea of «strangers» committing random crimes was loosely based upon a true event from Bertino's own childhood — as well as an infamous string of real - life murders that shocked America.

A delicious if unexamined subtext that recalls the underbelly denouement of Tod Browning's Freaks is the only real selling point of the picture, a crime drama about a robbery gone awry that leads to an encounter at a circus led by a hooded lion tamer (Lee).

Umberto Orsini looks right as the thickening blond heir to the crime boss's throne, but the only real juice in the film is provided by the endearingly bellicose Ted DeCorsia — and his role is only about thirty seconds long.

Encountering a typical gallery of Rudolph eccentrics — jaded, booze - soaked lounge singer (Nathan Lane), inept lothario (Dermot Mulroney in the Keith Carradine role), boorish real estate tycoon (Will Patton)-- she soon picks up threads of crime and coverup that lead all the way up to a lecherous, cant - spouting senator (Nick Nolte, pulling out all the comic stops as only he can).

The Masked Saint (PG - 13 for violence and mature themes) Adaptation of the Chris Whaley best seller of the same name chronicling the real - life exploits of a professional wrestler - turned - pastor (Brett Granstaff) who decided to not only return to the ring but to moonlight as a crime - fighting vigilante.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS All Good Things (R for drug use, violence, profanity and some sexuality) NYC crime saga, set in the Eighties, about the real - life case of the son (Ryan Gosling) of a real estate tycoon (Frank Langella) who falls in love with and marries a tenant (Kirsten Dunst) over his father's objections only to have his wife subsequently disappear under mysterious circumstances.

The billionaire would hate the man, if only he weren't so appreciative of the Batman's work and the only real possibility that the city could have a legitimate hero who would take on crime through the proper legal channels.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Eddowes and Tom Conway, a mysterious time - travelling writer, stalk this gripping and bloody Victorian crime novel that explores the real identity of Jack the Ripper, only weeks before he set out for London, to carve his name into history.

At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.

Carr, aka Phillip Tourian, would have been a great character for a real crime writer — but this novel will be of interest only to Beat scholars (and the occasional breathless undergrad).

While you're awarded with a rare item upon the completion of each case, these mysteries often require far too much running around Paris to solve a crime that you could easily piece together after only a few telling clues — or, if you're really lazy, you can just Google the answer, since many are based on real - life events.

The game not only contains a lot of references to films like L.A Confidential, Chinatown, The Untouchables, and The Black Dahlia, but it uses some real crime incidents based upon real life cases reported in 1947.

John Smith (it's my real name) opines «JC's only crime as far as I can tell is saying «not enough good data — we don't know»»

The only real difference between the crime (s 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997) and the tort (s 3) is standard of proof: to prove the civil wrong of harassment it is necessary to prove the case on a balance of probabilities.

Many people think that the law and «real life» rarely intersect, and that the law only affects them when they get charged with a crime, or get divorced, or get sued, which is why they get in touch with you.

That tendency toward caution may help explain why the podcast boom is only just making an impact in the Canadian legal community, two years after the launch of Serial, the real - life crime drama widely credited as the catalyst for the genre's explosive growth.

The eyewitness identification may be the only real evidence linking a defendant to a crime.

Lord Justice Jacob accepted that the impugned conduct must be grave before the offence or tort of harassment was proved and also accepted that the only real difference between the crime of s 2 and the tort of s 3 was the standard of proof.

Effective from Jan. 30, authorities imposed rules which allow only real - name bank accounts to be used for cryptocurrency trading designed to stop virtual coins from being used for money laundering and other crimes.