Sentence examples for modicum of suspense from inspiring English sources

In any case, A. J. creates a modicum of suspense after he meets and appropriates Franny.

Though incisive, the screenplay (by Mr. Bergman) resorts to some coy strategies to drum up a modicum of suspense.

There was a modicum of suspense as the rest of the draft unfolded at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.

The series offers a modicum of suspense, but little satisfying action and absolutely no sense of humor.

Steven's hair's-breadth escapes from the police and from prison are Keystone Kops-worthy escapades that involve only a modicum of suspense.

The other would-be princes are there, it seems, to sustain a modicum of suspense, while an apparently mute serving girl named Imogen dashes in and out of the narrative, to serve and warn the hero, in the manner of ambivalent servant girls since Karamaneh in Sax Rohmer's "Fu Manchu" books.

You practically die of suspense.

There is a cunning control of suspense.

This should strike a chord of suspense.

There is a moment of suspense.

And with an element of suspense.