Sentence examples for defuse suspense from inspiring English sources
All three Others are holdovers from earlier books, supporting characters or guest stars bumped up to villain status - though, like many a mid-series writer, Lukyanenko has a tendency to defuse suspense through his reluctance to tamper with earlier happy endings.
The novel's crux is the potential dissolution of Jack and Deb's marriage, yet, daringly, Pierpont races forward in time mid-book, defusing suspense and allowing readers to relish instead her garish but pleasurably textured New York, "like one of those living history exhibits, commemorating an old war".
The wisecracks and farce moments don't defuse the suspense or the horror, or devalue the high-running passions of the characters.
Sure, Piazza could have defused this suspense by saying Estes and the Mets do not have to retaliate.
Arnold felt that instead of developing this mystery, the filmmakers defused the potential for suspense by shifting away from the search of the Enterprise.
Defuse tension with grace.
Not action, but suspense.
That suspense has dissolved.
