Sentence examples for of suspense for from inspiring English sources

He's only making it worse, throwing in a night of suspense for me to spend wondering.

There were no accidents in the pit lane exit, and it added a level of suspense for the spectators as cars slipped off line negotiating the tricky portion of the track.

The instant rise to prominence of the unheralded Mr. Zubkov, a confidant of Mr. Putin, added a new element of suspense for the two Russian officials long regarded as the principal presidential contenders: Sergei B. Ivanov and Dmitry A. Medvedev, both first deputy prime ministers.

The truth is that instead of the vigorous recovery we were supposed to have by now, our economy seems to be in a state of suspense, waiting for something to happen.

With "Slumdog" seemingly a lock for best picture, much of the suspense for the evening may have to derive from the broadcast itself.

Inman undergoes many perilous adventures (so does Ada), and the novel has a lot of suspense and variety for a story that is, basically, about a guy walking.

Officials of the New Jersey Lottery Department said Thursday that, after days of suspense, a lawyer for the ticketholder had appeared at lottery headquarters in Trenton on Wednesday, and that the ticket he brought had been validated as the winner.

It's a moment that directors of suspense films grasp for and often miss -- that second when your knees no longer support your weight because physical laws cease to apply.

But the shows and stars that are generating that prickly thrill of suspense and schadenfreude for which theater cultists live belong to a more dramatic category, one in sync with the prevailing American narrative of the moment, the kind that is woven for our delectation in celebrity magazines and on Web sites.

A fairly typical recent instance was James Corden and Matthew Baynton's BBC comedy drama The Wrong Mans, in which one of the central characters, embroiled in a web of suspense and danger for which he is laughably ill-suited, is a nerdish town planner employed by Bracknell Council.

And yet that's just what's happening at an ever-increasing clip, as private equity firms gobble up more and more companies, creating prolonged periods of suspense and uncertainty for existing managers and other employees.