Suspense rises as the agent of law and order finds himself beset, without and within, by horrors he can scarcely control.
Suspense rises as secrets gradually leak out about why Ruth was charged with being "derelict in her duty towards a minor, resulting in death".
Suspense, agility and a rising tide of adrenaline are the ingredients that many graduates require in a career.
On the debt limit, suspense itself could produce the falling confidence and rising interest rates that business and government both want to avoid.
In the introduction to his latest biblical thriller, Tim LaHaye announces, " 'Babylon Rising' is my newest attempt to create another uniquely satisfying combination of suspense and substance".
But it establishes its ominous mood and tension swiftly, and if the suspense never rises to a higher level, it is nevertheless maintained throughout.
To break from the margins of the sports landscape, pro football brought innovation, action, skill, and episodic suspense on "any given Sunday". These factors in turn drove attendance and rising revenues.
The full version is a superior entertainment on every level, building heart-pounding suspense as Freder and Maria work together to save the children from the rising tide and, in so doing, cement their own relationship.
Rising action is the events that happen before the most exciting event and/or the events that contribute to the suspense.
Hour followed hour through a terrible suspense, and the star rose not.
"The Silver Star" will drum up suspense, "God willing and the creek don't rise".
