Sentence examples for structure of a thriller from inspiring English sources

What happens subsequently has the buried structure of a thriller.

A coming-of-age comedy with the pace and structure of a thriller, "Poison Friends" casts a knowing, sympathetic eye around the fevered precincts of youthful literary and academic ambition, a realm of passion, jealousy and ambiguous motives.

He also realized the story had something of the structure of a thriller.

The series has the basic structure of a procedural thriller but the cinematographic depth of a Terrence Malick film and narrative dynamism of a Dickens novel.

In the end, that is what makes The Birthday Party so unsettling: it combines the structure of a rep thriller with the guilt mechanisms of Kafka's The Trial and a deeply felt rebellion against what Pinter, in a much-quoted letter to Peter Wood, called "the shit-stained strictures of centuries of tradition".

The first play of his that I ever saw featured self-crucifixion in the living room - certainly not your everyday happy families scenario - and Kelly often uses classic suspense techniques that have the structure of a good thriller in the way they eke out information.

Greengrass has married a cinema verite sensibility to the structure of a mainstream action thriller, but it's the indie instinct that proves dominant.

Structured like a police procedural, the movie has the metabolism of a thriller (it's quick, quick, quick), the bursting heart of a romance and the brains of, well, some very clever people.

"It took time to understand the structure of thriller writing.

Or, rather, it becomes a simulacrum of a thriller.

This charming debut has the brains of a literary novel and the body of a thriller.