Sentence examples for on suspense from inspiring English sources

It's not a mystery show, as "Moonlighting" and "Remington Steele" and "The X-Files" were, so it doesn't habitually rely on suspense and its sublimating ally, suspension -- that mode by which we are left hanging in the air, both wanting a plot to finish and wanting it not to.

But "The Walking Dead" did the one thing that shows that rely on suspense shouldn't do -- it stretched its slender story well past its breaking point, and that ended up sapping the overall narrative of most of its tension.

Cautiously, he embraced the idea that interactivity could enable a newly pliant idea of cinematic narrative — "one that is opposed to most popular movies, which are built on suspense, which make you want to get to the resolution, and focus you on one track, one ending".

Their rivalry is one of the greatest in tennis history, yet it has been decidedly short on suspense here.

But for a thriller, "The Lighthouse" is short on suspense.

But the emphasis in "Homeland" on suspense and on the Carrie question — brilliant?

But the European Film Awards ceremonies, held in Barcelona on Saturday, had the same drag-on suspense and televised tears of any Hollywood night at the Oscars.

The genre could be loosely defined as literary mechanics, and it includes manuals on how to plot, on beginnings and middles and ends, on how to develop characters and viewpoints, on action, on creating suspense, on the narrative.

The success rate on suspense-filled penalty kicks in football is also right in that neighbourhood.

And Mr. Barron was responsible for the single most exquisite performance of the concert, a solo rhapsody on "Body and Soul" that went on and on, building suspense, as he engraved his elegant variations on the theme.

Since the original plaintiffs have been registered and are no longer eligible to sue, the attorneys filed a class-action suit last week in federal court on behalf of others still on the suspense list.  .