Sentence examples for mixture of suspense from inspiring English sources

The novel proves to be a perfect testing ground for their mastery of a certain kind of gripping serio-comic thriller, and, with its mixture of suspense and bizarre violence, it put me in mind of their first movie, Blood Simple.

As it follows his tug-of-war between two ways of life, one brutal, the other refined, the movie stirs up a delicious mixture of Alfred Hitchcock-suspensespense, hard-boiled action and exquisite musical reflection.

"Few are the singers who can spin out a phrase as she does, with an equal mixture of emotional suspense, rhythmic flair and stunning dynamic control," commented the Washington Post of her performances.

It accomplishes this not by means of melodrama, but by a mixture of understatement and thriller-worthy suspense.

Fandorin is frequently in extreme peril, in cliffhangers that are both stylized and exciting -- if only our hero could reach the derringer hidden in his boot.... Akunin keeps a delicate balance between archly toying with the conventions of the genre and employing them to create that mixture of curiosity and anxiety known as suspense.

You practically die of suspense.

There is a cunning control of suspense.

This should strike a chord of suspense.

"It's a story of suspense," he said.

(a) No, because eliminates from ride element of suspense.

The element of suspense never comes into play.