"yarn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Sanders clearly delights in playing up the bumbling, spoof aspects of this detective yarn, especially during its climactic but unavoidably funny denouement.
- As Mr. Spence's story unfolds, it takes on the qualities of a detective yarn and a picaresque tale involving a strange cast of characters.
- But in dealing with the death of my uncle I must begin at the other end from where our old detective yarns began.
- Intricate and self-contradicting, the narrative has the addictive pull of a detective yarn, a cosmic version in which the clues do and do not add up to a clear solution.
- Any viewer with a slight knowledge of old detective yarns can supply his own lines and incidents for such a caper.
- It's an amusing and engaging romp through the spurious borders of the detective yarn.
- But the story unfolding around Mr. Kotler, who Mr. Litman said has made a living as a commercial diver, seemed both tantalizing detective yarn and battle over science.
- The typical detective yarn, for example, provides a trace of unpredictability--who-dunnit?
- In a way, a Robison story is a high-end game, like a detective yarn, in which we collect clues - offhand remarks, half-conscious gestures - that betray the occulted wounds in her characters' lives.
- "Tell me, Jean-Luc, I know you have a childish fondness for hard-boiled detective yarns."
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