Sentence examples for considerable suspense from inspiring English sources

Some minor modifications to the system will continue, but this year's system has added considerable suspense.

His decision, which held the state's political establishment in considerable suspense over the past month, does not affect the state's presidential primary, scheduled for April 24.

And although it is a foregone conclusion that this effort will succeed, Mr. O'Callaghan's performance and Tom Ormeny's lively direction work up considerable suspense and occasional outrage.

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character who does not immediately grab the reader.

Steele manages to wring considerable suspense from this scenario, which reads like an updated version of Sinclair Lewis's antifascist novel of 1935, "It Can't Happen Here".

The motor of the novel's intellectual ingenuity, its comedy and its considerable suspense is the transformation of the indicative into the conditional.

At around the 90-minute mark, all of the considerable tension and suspense drain away, and if the film ended at that point, you might walk away shaken and perhaps stunned.

Not the most instantly attractive of Stockhausen's early works, perhaps, or the most vivid, but it's still intensely fascinating, and as Schick and his colleagues show, it's a piece than can produce effects of considerable grandeur and tingling suspense.

History buffs can already answer those questions, so it's to Robert Harris's considerable credit that he wrings some suspense from them, producing a fact-based novel that's deliciously juicy and fleetly paced — maybe too fleetly, all told: the comically foreboding title foreshadows Harris's principal intentions, which are to make you gasp, titter and turn the pages.

For beyond the outright suspense here -- and it is considerable, especially in a better-than-fiction episode involving a race to beat a train -- is a meditation on the very essence of crime.

Nor is it by any stretch a "thriller," as the American edition's dust jacket would have it: considerable rhetorical skills have been employed to nip any possible suspense in the bud.