Sentence examples for called thriller from inspiring English sources
Indeed, the event's first round of applause went to a man called Rod Temperton, who was probably unknown even to the audience, but was responsible for writing the world's bestselling song last year, a certain number called Thriller.
"From Under the Cork Tree" and "Infinity on High" were released by a major label, Island Records; the first song on "Infinity" is called "Thriller," after the biggest-selling album of all time.
The scene then cuts to a modern-day movie theater where Michael and his date, along with a repulsed audience, are actually watching the scene unfold in a movie called Thriller.
Also at the Waldorf-Astoria on Sunday will be an afternoon tea at 4 called "Thrillers With a Capital Tea," with Joe R. Lansdale, April Smith, Andrew Vachss and Donald E. Westlake.
But espionage stories are not for nothing called "thrillers". They need to worry us by putting their protagonists suspensefully, menacingly in harm's way.
In June 1955 Raymond Chandler was visiting the poet Stephen Spender in London when he was introduced to Fleming; Fleming subsequently sent Chandler a copy of Live and Let Die and in response Chandler wrote that Fleming was "probably the most forceful and driving writer of what I suppose still must be called thrillers in England".
Anthony Shaffer, who has died aged 75, called his thriller Sleuth "the main event" - and he could never escape it.
Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this thriller, directed by James Watkins and based on the novel by Susan Hill, "a creaking, shrieking haunted-house amusement and a solid addition to the recently resurrected Hammer Films — the company where Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing once reigned".
Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis called this thriller from Ang Lee, based on the short story "Se, Jei," by Eileen Chang, "a sleepy, musty period drama about wartime maneuvers and bedroom calisthenics, and the misguided use of a solid director".
So were the films and TV shows in the category Netflix called "political thrillers".
What we need are what might be called electoral thrillers, the kinds in which the passions of crowds matter most.
