Example sentences for: scarpetta

How can you use “scarpetta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Lacking the self-monitoring skill that's crucial to a really good writer, she projects ugly fixations onto Scarpetta, remarking constantly--and with embarrassing, naked approval--on her blond, "Teutonic" looks.

  • Medical examiners in fiction (Kay Scarpetta) and television (Dr.

  • Scarpetta was the American counterpart, in a way, to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison of the British TV series Prime Suspect . As sales skyrocketed, Cornwell hired a staff of researchers to help work up her autopsy nightmares.

  • The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.

  • But the plots have evolved to an abstract level--a kind of metaphorical mist--and Scarpetta has acquired two archenemies: Temple Gault, an evil-genius, white-trash skinhead, and his accomplice, an attractive young psychopath named Carrie Grethen.


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