Sentence examples for our suspense from inspiring English sources

Our suspense becomes exhilaration as the week progresses.

We can only hope that our focus is now supposed to fall on Anna and Bates as our source of suspense and emotional investment.

"Our thoroughly modern suspense story ends as just another Gothic tale".

An epic meditation on recent Irish history travels upon our own suffocating suspense.

We're going to be waiting for that signal at 9 p.m., and that'll be our moment of suspense".

The intensity of our feelings of suspense seems to rely on two features of an event's outcome: (1) its uncertainty and (2) the significance of what is at stake.

Prompt apologies are generally best: we may like suspense in our games, but we hate it when there are loose ends in our sporting dramas.

And Abbott steadily commands our attention with a suspense plot that unexpectedly somersaults and back flips whenever a landing seems in sight.

Whereas the plots of some of Mr. le Carré's recent novels have felt like bad imitations of action-adventure thrillers, the suspense in "Our Kind of Traitor" is genuine and nerve-racking, as he tracks the efforts of Gail and Perry and Luke to negotiate a deal between Dima and the intelligence service, and then to get Dima and his family safely home to England.

Two-thirds of the way into its second season "Dexter," Showtime's highest-rated series, is better than ever, deriving its suspense from our fear that its hero's peculiar exercises in paternalism will fall under the harsh judgments of the law.

Each film had a flashing checkerboard pattern around the edges of the screen to see whether suspense affected our usual response to this pattern.