Words similar to detective

Example sentences for: detective

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Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.
As Detective Bud White, Crowe is a beefy thug with a compulsion to rough up wife-beaters.
Properly done, with little violence and much detection, a TV detective story is the ideal nonirritating, guilt-free interactive program.
And I'm not sure what Whoopi Goldberg is doing there as a lesbian detective with about as much verisimilitude as Goldberg's 500-year-old alien bartender on Star Trek: The Next Generation . But in the nebulous middle section, the movie develops layers, and Schiff and director Ulu Grosbard achieve something extraordinary: They dramatize the undramatized--the latent.
Andrew Kevin Walker, the screenwriter of Seven (1995) and of the new snuff-film thriller 8MM , must have grown up watching hundreds of hours of kinky detective shows.