Sentence examples for dash of suspense from inspiring English sources

The baton never made it to Dix, which was a pity for those who like their relays with a dash of suspense.

But all styles, even the most unadorned, tend to stiffen into mannerism, and lately the Dardennes, as though wary of that risk, have begun to pep up their spartan realism with a dash of suspense.

She chirrups to the reader that her challenge was "to make this reworking come alive, with a sprinkling of wit, and a dash of dramatic suspense".

The other would-be princes are there, it seems, to sustain a modicum of suspense, while an apparently mute serving girl named Imogen dashes in and out of the narrative, to serve and warn the hero, in the manner of ambivalent servant girls since Karamaneh in Sax Rohmer's "Fu Manchu" books.

And to the extent that this year's Oscars will uphold this tradition, supplying a dash of sentimentality, sweet (those "Slumdog Millionaire" kids) or bitter (Heath Ledger), a spoonful of suspense (Mickey Rourke or Sean Penn?) and perhaps even a surprise (Melissa Leo!), they may exceed the low expectations that surround them.

You practically die of suspense.

There is a cunning control of suspense.

This should strike a chord of suspense.

Frankly, not a lot of suspense ensues.

The Art of Suspense He loved art.

There is a moment of suspense.