Sentence examples for basic suspense from inspiring English sources
I think that sometimes the plot and story can be a bit predictable, but it still definitely fits the genre and includes a lot of basic suspense and mystery, great for a younger audience, but I feel that sometimes it is lacking in depth.
Mr. Levinson has many skills as a filmmaker — he is past having anything to prove on that score — but the basic techniques of dread and suspense don't seem to interest him very much.
Tartt shared with the two greatest English novelists of our age - Graham Greene and John le Carré - the sine qua non for all those who seek to write compelling suspense fiction: the basic flair for slapping the paint on thick.
Given the limited cast of characters, Downing must draw on almost Dickensian reserves of coincidences and close calls to sustain the suspense of his basic hide-and-seek story line.
Peter Strickland's 2012 cult film, "Berberian Sound Studio," used the basic form of old Italian suspense films to explore one man's loneliness and paranoia, and now his excellent follow-up describes the common give-and-take of romantic relationships via the story of a kinky lesbian couple who've stepped right out of 1970s European erotica.
It is lucky that just enough of the basic story survives to give the movie a touch of gravity and suspense.
At its most basic level, "Lush Life" is a police procedural, and it possesses all the gut-level suspense of a detective story.
Without forsaking her all-purpose heroine or altering the basic plot dynamics for placing her in peril, this savvy author always comes up with something unexpected to give her standard suspense formula a new kick.
Not action, but suspense.
