The phrase "a growing suspense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing feeling of tension or anticipation in a narrative or situation.
Example: "As the story unfolded, a growing suspense kept the readers on the edge of their seats."
Alternatives: "increasing tension" or "mounting suspense".
There is definitely a kind of growing suspense that is intensely claustrophobic and which leaves you feeling quite helpless.
Story takes dominance over issues through intriguing characters [End Page 362] and growing suspense, thus avoiding the play's becoming a preachy piece of ecocriticism, but nevertheless directing our attention onto real ecological issues by rooting the story firmly in place.
Amid the growing suspense, the movie, which seems ready-made for a Hollywood adaptation, gives you the uneasy thrill of rooting for this subversive pair to succeed.
He's allowing his characters to develop more fully and the pacing of the story provides steadily growing suspense punctuated with moments of deadly peril or humour.
As Sunday's date for this year's Academy Awards approaches, and with it the growing suspense over who will win what, Nick Clooney follows from his Augusta, Ky., home (near Cincinnati) with special interest.
The irony is that Ethan Hawke's Tom Egan, patrolling Afghanistan from a Portakabin in the Nevada desert, suffers a growing impotence: in tense, crafted suspense sequences, we see him watching, helpless, while children stray into target range and a rapist runs amok.
Berg is part of a growing labor movement by Hollywood writers — the people primarily responsible for on-screen drama, jokes, stories and suspense — pushing back against a fundamental change in the entertainment business.
He said he had been "surprised" by the number of people who turned out in St Peter's Square to watch the first smoke on Tuesday night, and said the crowds would surely grow as suspense mounted.
Though it can be charming, "The Mask of Moriarty" doesn't grow in suspense, never picks up steam; nor do the jokes get loonier, with the exception of a late-breaking visual gag concerning Watson's wardrobe.
The suspense grew more agonizing in its final hours, when the family received a call on Sunday night from an Associated Press reporter who told her a body had washed up near Greenpoint in Brooklyn wearing black corduroy pants.
