Sentence examples for mounting suspense from inspiring English sources

Putting Stuart's story on rewind provides distinct advantages, among them mounting suspense.

Ribchester provides the dual structure, mounting suspense and roster of suspicious characters typical of a traditional whodunnit.

Passages of mounting suspense — the riveting preludes to the Painter's suicide in the first act and Lulu's own demise in the third, for example — had a furious energy.

This book's gradual upward trajectory leads it toward mounting suspense, a hall-of-mirrors finale and a coda that is supremely inspired.

Instead of following them through an inventive plot, one must simply watch them endure time's passage; instead of feeling a mounting suspense, one merely waits for Matthews to tell the complex secret of his detainment.

Another trio led by a pianist, Michel Reis, tempered its impressionism with mounting rhythmic suspense.

There was a lot of weight on that leg, and suspense mounted as Mr. Kersels, who is usually labeled a sculptor or an installation artist, chipped away.

He said he had been "surprised" by the number of people who turned out in St Peter's Square to watch the first smoke on Tuesday night, and said the crowds would surely grow as suspense mounted.

Suspense had been mounting for weeks over Swissair's fate.

It is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety: what terrible things are going to happen to Cee, and how will Frank save her, when he can't save himself?

Since Katrina, the suspense has mounted: Would ABC executives broadcast this spooky glimpse at a storm's aftermath while the Gulf Coast is confronting the far-too-real equivalent?