Sentence examples for novel tension from inspiring English sources

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But regardless of Tolkien's protests, his own era cannot be ignored, even in the way it shapes the novels' tensions.

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The novel's tension increases as Jamie is called away by the government to oversee and coordinate penicillin projects in laboratories throughout the nation.

Our reviewer, Margot Livesey, said D'Erasmo "boldly undercuts the obvious thriller formula" and "gives us a novel whose tension is almost entirely domestic".

The novel's tension derives from Del's anxious strategizing: will she try to help her son yet again or toss him out for good?

The desire to tune out life's clamor provides most of this novel's tension, in which the demands of other people — and the world in general — are usually at odds with an individual's need for peace and quiet.

The novel's tension derives from the ambiguity of Elinor's search; the extent to which she simply wants to put to rest her doubts about Toby's mental state.

The novel's tension arises from another quarter: the question of whether Chris, mired in restraint and self-recrimination, will muster the verve to make Roza a dishonest woman.

Naturally, much of the novel's tension comes from waiting to see how he manages the leaps from Kansas to Flagstaff to "finding" fabled Planet X -- the cherished goal of the astronomer Percival Lowell -- which became the planet Pluto until it was downgraded four years ago to a dwarf planet.

Since John Trick is a 29-year-old unemployed drifter with a short temper, scars on his face and plenty of time on his hands, the novel's tension consists of the reader trying to decide if he is the killer and how much jeopardy his wife and daughter will suffer.