Sentence examples for conventional suspense from inspiring English sources

All this was not conventional suspense.

The battle scenes avoid conventional suspense and sensationalism; they disturb not by being manipulative but by being hellishly frank.

Lessing deliberately anticipates at times, tells us what will happen before it happens; she is not pursuing conventional suspense.

Here it wasn't conventional suspense but the Aquarian-type mysticism of "2001: A Space Odyssey" that drove the show.

Mr. Daniels is much more interested in sensation than in conventional suspense, so the murder mystery is pushed into the background.

The only conventional suspense is whether Brydon and Coogan will return to their families or remain among the young women of Sorrento and Positano, catching octopus and squid.

Through flawless character work, Rendell transforms what could be a conventional suspense story into a close, and at times cruelly funny, psychological study of domestic disorder.

Rather than creating conventional suspense, Straight seems to be intent on inspecting the fragments of broken lives, constructing scenes that loop back on one another to show us the action from different angles.

The challenge in producing a movie like this is to find enough conventional movie elements — suspense, realistic characters, convincing dialogue — without selling out the scriptural source.

There is a big bag of money to be heisted, as well as some nasty characters to contend with, and the psychological nuance gives way to the more conventional machinery of suspense.

With the exception of one genuinely breathtaking, blood-curdling ambush, "Annihilation" has little interest in the conventional mechanics of suspense and surprise, as evidenced by an array of flashbacks and flash-forwards that reveal at least one outcome of Lena's journey (she lives!) in the very first scene.