Sentence examples for simple suspense from inspiring English sources

The movie reduces its fear factor to simple suspense that's not insignificant but is pretty insubstantial.

The core of the film is a simple suspense plot with overtones of psychological horror — which remain thinly developed.

Following "Suspension Without Suspense", "Simple Kind of Life" became the second song that Stefani wrote by herself.

As majestic images of water and then flames (by the video artist Bill Viola) played above the band, the music built inexorably from a modest piano ostinato to a quiet march, without the album's effects but with its suspense; a simple drumbeat, long absent, entered like a thunderclap.

In "Math on Trial," the mother-daughter team Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez impart the "dramas of people who saw their lives ripped apart by simple mathematical errors" with unexpected suspense.

My guess is we're left to relegate all suspense and story arc to the simple question of whether Newt or Mitt will win whichever primary is currently on stage.

Here, the simple acquisition of a sugar cube takes on the suspense of a bank heist.

This simple question generates quite a bit of curiosity and suspense, but "One Day" is at its best — observant, relaxed, touching and charming — when the central couple are apart.

But "Men in the Sun" is, on the simplest level, a gripping tale that unfolds with Hitchcockian suspense as the reader is reduced to fearfully counting the minutes on the smuggler's wristwatch.

A simple yet incredibly effective Hitchcockian thriller, this 1997 exercise in suspense and paranoia deserves remembering for a multitude of reasons.

Though shot in simple back lots in black and white, the show makes the Wild West come alive through sharpshooting suspense and weirdly out-of-place violins in the soundtrack.