Sentence examples for its suspense from inspiring English sources
It takes its suspense seriously.
Only the most ardent conspiracy theorists would argue that the Super Bowl has already been decided and filmed, so it retains its suspense.
But in modern times, literary fiction presents a conundrum: The more craftily constructed its suspense, the more it tempts its advocates — in the interest of airtime — to reach into a serious tale and pull out something resembling a tabloid headline.
The movie, "A Sight for Sore Eyes," adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel, plays pretentiously arty games of narrative hide-and-seek and dotes with such fetishistic insistence on visual metaphors (like empty white houses) that it squanders much of its suspense on chic frills.
"Texas Killing Fields," a serial-killer study inspired by an actual case, takes its suspense for granted, which leaves it weak where it should be at its most chilling.
A good thriller earns its suspense by building toward it.
Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" has been praised for its graceful writing, its fully imagined characters, its narrative suspense, its vivid evocation of life in England at the time of World War II.
The results for the map task are consistent with this assertion, since viewers who did well in the task came away after watching the clip with a non-normative representation of it (centered on its spatial layout, rather than its suspense-inducing narrative).
The whole scheme is manna to a dramatist, but Jarrold's direction of the heist sequence was Hitchcockian in its suspense-building.
The Entire City is named after a Max Ernst painting, and Walling casts her metropolis as both comfort and threat; the safeness and succor of Concrete Mother becomes suffocating claustrophobia on Nest, with its suspense-filled percussion, and the war-like rush of the eponymous track becomes stark isolation on Changelings.
The motor of the novel's intellectual ingenuity, its comedy and its considerable suspense is the transformation of the indicative into the conditional.
