Aptly named cinema cop

Usage examples of bullitt.

It's this job or none, and so Bullitt uses a common obsession with classic 78-rpm recordings to launch a Trojan Horse friendship with Bobby K's ne'er-do-well brother, Jim.

But it does seem to have something in common with the lingo of the clandestine government agencies with which Bullitt works -- most of his contacts from that crowd speak in cryptic, contorted phrases, as though their covert habits have warped their brains.

In Going, Going, Gone, Womack gives us another supremely idiosyncratic narrative voice, but the effect is much the opposite: Bullitt celebrates the endlessly generative power of language, reveling in every opportunity to substitute colorful metaphor for straight-on blandness.

He had on several occasions warned the President about security on his transatlantic telephone conversations with Ambassador Bullitt in France and later with Churchill—a wise move, for, though he did not know it, the Nazis had already penetrated that scrambler.