Sentence examples for suspense from from inspiring English sources

"They remove a lot of suspense from a race.

This book keeps building up suspense from the beginning.

And both films wring suspense from real-life events, the outcomes of which are forgone conclusions.

But they could have skimmed much of the suspense from a punishing playoff push.

* * * Nicci French's two previous thrillers worked the genre elements of psychological suspense from oblique angles.

Juli Inkster was determined to eliminate suspense from the final round of the Evian Masters.

The film, based on a novel by Jan Costin Wagner, unfolds a bit like an episode of the long-running CBS television series "Criminal Minds," pivoting from perpetrators to investigators to the families of victims and creating suspense less from the classic whodunit question than from the when and why.

For soccer fans, the game is probably inherently suspenseful; for the rest of us, suspense arises from our hope (expectation, anticipation) that this body will cease waiting (like us) and starting moving (like a star).

Much of the inspiration for "Sweeney Todd," Mr. Sondheim said, comes from a somewhat unlikely source: "Hangover Square," a suspense film from the 1940's about a murderous composer, which was scored by the legendary Bernard Herrmann.

The suspense stems from Mr. Rowland's silence about his intentions; the suspicion, from the backdoor machinations each party says the other is using to either kill or increase the bill's chances of becoming law.

Since "Rules" makes it clear from the outset that Mr. Jackson's character is innocent, the only suspense comes from wondering if Guy Pearce, as the prosecutor, will be able to maintain his bizarre accent (Mitchell).