Sentence examples for nail-biting scenes from inspiring English sources

"Daniels doesn't just perfectly "queer the capes," she delivers a book that's tightly packed with brilliantly rendered fights, nail-biting scenes of peril, emotional authenticity, and a perfect first kiss.

FOR more than a year the euro zone's debt drama has lurched from one nail-biting scene to another.

He is relentlessly pursued by Inspector Javert in a nail-biting yarn, with better chase scenes than anything in a James Bond movie.

Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Helen Mirren, with Alan Rickman in his last performance for the screen, this nail-biting drama, a behind the scenes look at what it takes to fight terrorism could not be more relevant, and Siegal feigned taking credit for planting the story to support the film opening this week.

Other nail-biting set pieces include an aerial prison break, and a scene where Milan and his ambitious boss Zlatko watch an out-of-work doctor sew diamonds into a tranquillised dog's neck.

Kabul lies in a basin of the Hindu Kush range, which makes for a nail-biting spiral down into the city on flights in, and also means that nearly any street scene in the city has a dramatic backdrop.

REBECCA MEAD: Alex — nail-biting finish, naturally.

It was a nail-biting game.

Yet the contest is nail-biting.

It will be a nail-biting finish either way.

We should have a nail-biting finale to the series.