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Example sentences for: gangster

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Larger-than-life figures from the annals of organized crime--Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone--are often drafted into service when Hollywood decides to make one of its perennial gangster flicks.
Exploring a more mundane milieu, it serves as the missing link between us and The Godfather --a gangster movie for a mingier, more cynical era, when even doing good comes with a terrible cost, and where every family tie is a snap of the wrist away from a garrote.
For all its comic exaggeration (almost no gangster or Freudian cliché is left unparodied), Analyze This ends up affirming the efficacy of psychoanalysis more than any picture since Spellbound (1945).
Cagney's slow fade is especially surprising when you consider how much the genre he helped to invent, the gangster film, thrives.
Master P hits all the clichés of gangster rap: the elegy honoring murdered homeboys, the chronicle of his rise through the drug-dealing ranks, the tribute to marijuana, the paean to his gun.