Sentence examples for gripping suspense from inspiring English sources

THE long cycles of agriculture are seldom associated with gripping suspense.

Mr. Scorsese's camera sense effectively fills every scene with creepiness, but sustained, gripping suspense seems beyond his grasp.

Fortunately the many existential twists provoked by this notion and their resolutions are always inventively engineered, and the gripping suspense truly makes time fly.

The young mother, known to us now as Paula Benichek, reappears, as she must, and there is genuine, gripping suspense about how the child's custody will be resolved.

With excellent supporting turns by Max Von Sydow and Cliff Robertson, Condor delivers gripping suspense all the way.

With excellent supporting turns by Max Von Sydow and Cliff Robertson and great Manhattan location flavoring, "Condor" delivers gripping suspense all the way.

The most powerful means of gripping attention is suspense.

Before she loses her nerve in a way that a true queen of the night (like Ruth Rendell or her alter ego, Barbara Vine) never would, Minette Walters spins a gripping tale of suspense in THE CHAMELEON'S SHADOW (Knopf, $24.95).

It's you-are-there, fly-on-the-wall, and though we now know the story's ending — the students were finally let in — the suspense is gripping.

Yet positioned in a chilly netherland between Boy's Own yarn and quasi-Nietzschean tract, The Grey manages to juggle morbid metaphysics with well-orchestrated battle scenes and borderline supernatural suspense to surprisingly gripping effect.

Bong Joon-ho's Mother is a suspense thriller, a gripping psychological study and, like his 2003 movie Memories of Murder, a witty subversion of the forensic-procedural genre.