Sentence examples for levels of suspense from inspiring English sources

The first half of the film (which recycles riffs from Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang) is a deftly executed blend of psychological intrigue and growing tension, with preparations for the raid achieving nail-biting levels of suspense.

And his finale lives up to the level of suspense he has created.

It thereby ended on a high level of suspense and menace.

The level of suspense in the new British prison drama "Starred Up" is extraordinarily high — "crackling," in the journalistic language of years ago.

Then it gets jacked up to a high level of suspense by the Scarecrow's sinister powers in the Internet's darker reaches.

Dewberry manages to sustain a high level of suspense about what's real and what's not in this imaginatively conceived story about the social dynamics in a rich and powerful but woefully unstable family.

The threat of urban anarchy raises the level of suspense, and although its outbreak provides some of the film's most vivid and troubling scenes, the explosion produces a dramatic stalemate.

There were no accidents in the pit lane exit, and it added a level of suspense for the spectators as cars slipped off line negotiating the tricky portion of the track.

Portions of this novel are plain agonising to read through; when the level of suspense reached its peak, I had to physically restrain my own fingers from betraying me and flipping to the last few pages so I'd finally be free from the misery of the constant guess the killer game I had going on in my head.

Specifically, it is considered a virtuoso example of creating and maintaining a high level of suspense throughout a three-minute opening of a film (D'Angelo, 2012).

Is it challenging to maintain that level of suspense throughout the season?