Sentence examples for matter of suspense from inspiring English sources

The overpublicized matter of suspense has been whether Godard (who apparently hadn't been reached by the Academy) knew of the award (of course he knew — he doesn't live in a cave) and whether he'd attend the ceremony.

It's not a matter of suspense: the swaths of elaborate writing, multifarious implication, magic realist butterflying and two subplots -- both connected to Earl's death -- muffle any mere narrative expectations on the reader's part.

This sputtering drama about a man and a woman who wake up one day with matching cases of amnesia is ultimately so, er, forgettable that its resolution ceases to be a matter of suspense long before it arrives.

The answer to the book's chief matter of suspense -- the source of the Zycron stories -- answers itself so obviously and early that Iris, while disclosing the truth in the book's last pages, feels obliged to concede to the reader, "You must have known that for some time".

Whether Dagny will opt out of the dying real world and settle herself in humming Galt's Gulch is one of the novel's many foregone conclusions masquerading as matters of suspense.

But the novel's most attractive feature is its matter-of-fact suspense: Furst vigilantly restricts Nicholas's perspective, refusing to allow him anachronistic insight into the history being made around him, and this strategy helps reinvigorate one of the century's frequently told stories.

The court's response to the Constitution had been a matter of some suspense.

In baseball, it's a matter of high suspense to see whether the arm of Boston's Bret Saberhagen, 36, recovering from its third surgery, can pitch its way off the disabled list this season without flying off into the grandstand at Fenway Park.

McEwan is often called the master of suspense.

The master of suspense did not care whodunnit.

You can be the master of suspense, say.