"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mark Wahlberg plays an angry firefighter who, like Albert, becomes a client of husband-and-wife "existential detectives" (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) who cure angst by going through people's garbage.
- After seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times, Albert contacts two existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe (Hoffman and Tomlin).
- One such was Tommy Oblivion, the existential detective, who specialised in cases that might or might not have actually happened.
- I had a few useful tricks up my sleeve, but I was interested to see what the famous existential detective could do.
- "Well, it depends what you mean by happy, and by ending," the existential detective began.
- "This is Tommy Oblivion, the existential detective," I said.
- I Heart Huckabees (2004) offbeat philosophical comedy involves two "existential detectives" (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) hired to uncover the meaning of life.
- David O. Russel's I Heart Huckabees (2004) incorporates CGI effects to visually demonstrate philosophical theories explained by the existential detectives (played by Lily Tomlin and Dustin Hoffman).
- And smiling calmly back at us-Tommy Oblivion, the existential detective, and Sandra Chance, the consulting necromancer.
- Each of these characters suffers from some form of spiritual malaise and will hire Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin, a pair of "existential detectives," to investigate.
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