Sentence examples for lacking suspense from inspiring English sources

Unlike their tight-lipped approach of previous years, executives of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had allowed telecast details to pour onto blogs in the days leading up to the telecast, setting up the prospect of a show lacking suspense.

Wahid, at the time an active Islamic intellectual with the Nahdlatul Ulama, wrote in 1980 that Kubah had poorly realised its potential; he characterised it as a beginner's work: lacking suspense, overly moralistic, and predictable.

Donald C. Willis, a writer who wrote about horror and science fiction films, described the horror scenes as completely lacking suspense, and said the film was "so flimsy that its three co-plots seem to be operating independently of one another".

But it will somehow lack suspense.

The race for control of the House may lack suspense — a continued Republican majority is all but a certainty.

To say that these stories often occur past the point of choice might suggest that they lack suspense.

A delayed broadcast will be available later, but Major Biggerstaff noted that the rerun might lack suspense.

He and his aides had hinted at it moments after he lost to Mr. Romney in the last series of primaries that lacked suspense.

The book sometimes lacks suspense, owing, in part, to the limitations imposed by its framing device, a transcript of a prisoner's statement.

But the field is as tilted as anywhere; for the puny opposition the goalposts are continually moving.The sport also lacks suspense.

Even the most dour, campaign-hardened veteran is not immune to the hoopla, to having a role and access to an event that often lacks suspense but is not short on lasting implications.