Building a remarkable degree of suspense into the all too familiar ploys described here, Mr. Grisham delivers his savviest book in years.
And it is remarkable how much suspense and psychological drama the show squeezes out of cabinet shuffles and health-care-reform bills in a small Scandinavian nation (population: nearly 5.6 million).
Even more unexpectedly, she has expanded this period piece so that it stretches from 1965 to 2018, coaxing forth a remarkable amount of suspense from the way her characters change over time.
Promoted as a "page-turning mystery," "Remarkable" skips tautly plotted suspense in favor of a cascade of intrigues that suggest a broad theme: Gifts get labeled eagerly and early on, but it's more fun if characters can elude expectations.
Both Dr. King and Ray come to life in these remarkable pages, generating great suspense without surprise, thanks to readers' terrible foreknowledge of what will happen when these two cross paths.
We spend the first two movements wondering how these people connect, and the suspense is more remarkable than the resolution.
"A bleaker, Nordic version of 'The West Wing,' 'Borgen' finds a remarkable amount of drama and suspense in center-left alliances, pension plans and televised debates".
Mary Stewart, enviably, is remarkable not only for elegant, addictive, suspense-filled romances but for three outstanding and unforgettable children's classics: The Little Broomstick, A Walk in Wolf Wood, and Ludo and the Star Horse.
"His film becomes as remarkable for its scale as for the suspense it generates, and all the more fascinating for setting grand aspirations beside petty errors.
The characters are not remarkable; their love problems are unoriginal; and there is no great suspense about whether anybody's life onstage is going to be significantly changed — but how they rush, spin, jump, catch or are caught, lift or are lifted!
