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Example sentences for: detective

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The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).
The Central Intelligence Agency was widely known as the “Inside Detective Bureau”; we eventually started to use it ourselves.
Aside from bit parts in B movies, his only major role was as Detective Beau Felton in NBC's acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Street . Hollywood always touts 35-year-old William (or Billy, as he abhors being called in the press) as the Baldwin most likely to break through to major stardom.
Detective Young was able to indulge in his cheap moralizing four centuries later because back then, everything about sugar was suspect--its novelty and potency, its exotic origin in Moorish Spain, its pure pharmocopoeal whiteness.
It's a single, 20 minute tracking shot that holds on Atlantic City Detective Rick Santoro (Nicolas Cage) as he bounds around the arena that's the site of a heavyweight championship fight.