If Saturday's stage seemed devoid of suspense, it was because of Wiggins's performance in the first time trial of distance, a 25.8-mile test held July 9. On a hilly course that finished in Besançon, near the France-Switzerland border, Wiggins opened up considerable time.
A boxing tale, an interracial love story and a prison/mob drama devoid of suspense, spark or grit, the ambitiously genre-crossing yet disastrously executed "They're Just My Friends" is hands down the most excruciatingly inept film to creep its way into theaters in some time.
In the end, Federer's 3-6, 6-2 (4), 6-3, 6-0, 6-3 victory was, despite the thriller scoreline, strangely devoid of great suspense.
The Huskies won, 79-56, in a game devoid of any expected suspense, advancing to the national championship game on Sunday.
This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot.
One of the many turning points in "The Blind Side" — a movie made up almost entirely of turning points and yet curiously devoid of drama or suspense — comes during a Memphis high school football game.
This highly derivative, poorly directed caper, that's devoid of a sliver of suspense, parades a gaggle of cardboard characterizations through their paces to never-less- than-annoying effect.
But this odd potential match between big multihulls is hardly devoid of charm or perhaps suspense.
The director, Benoît Jacquot, renders the characters fleshless and mindless, without memories, inclinations, or ideas, reducing them to propellants of suspense in picturesque settings devoid of context.
Philip Pullman, a writer known for his originality and command of suspense, has written a new book almost entirely devoid of either.
But with its grasp of suspense and character, it hits the mark as a portrait of openhearted determination that's devoid of desperation.
