Sentence examples for on the suspense from inspiring English sources
Dennis Harvey, from Variety magazine, echoed Matthew's opinion that the film failed to deliver on the suspense; he also felt that you could not tell one teenage character from the next, whereas in Carpenter's original each teenager had real personalities.
Here, the simple acquisition of a sugar cube takes on the suspense of a bank heist.
From that point on, the suspense is nearly Hitchcockian in intensity: Will Sheba destroy herself and her family life over her passion for a mere boy?
To the dismay of his fans, Mr. Freeling allowed Van der Valk to be killed by Dutch street thugs in 1973 and let his wife, Arlette, carry on the suspense in Strasbourg ("The Widow," Pantheon, 1979).
In 1972, Hemmings ventured into directing, taking on the suspense thriller Running Scared, in which the chief role was played by Gayle Hunnicutt, his wife from 1968 to 1974, and with whom he had earlier co-starred in Fragment Of Fear (1970).
But the play, meticulously staged by Stuart Gordon in a gleamingly neat modern apartment, relies too much on the suspense and gore of its macabre action.
The castaways on "LOST" are not going to be found on Wednesday (8 p.m ., so the suspense of that ABC season finale is limited, no matter what lurks inside the mysterious hatch.
"Black smoke," news flashes announced after votes in both houses failed to return a winner, in a play on the suspense-filled conclave that led to the election of Pope Francis on Wednesday.
At that point the TV networks were intent on keeping the suspense alive.
Or, apparently, an adaptation of "On the Beach". The suspense currently hangs on whether or not Jack, on the advice of the dead-but-maybe-he-could-come-back-to-life Daniel Faraday (the twitchy physicist played by Jeremy Davies), will succeed in detonating a bomb that will disable certain island energy forces and ultimately ensure that the original plane crash never actually occurred.
On Monday, Pollitt finally logged on to relieve the suspense.
