Sentence examples for suspense like from inspiring English sources

Cary Joji Fukunaga, the director who created those sinister bayou landscapes, dripping with suspense like an alligator's open jaw, well, he's gone too.

Meanwhile, many traditional British institutions have been left in a state of suspense, like crumbling mansions in a park awaiting planning permission.

This drama requires no melodrama, yet the author sometimes deploys the unnecessary paraphernalia of suspense, like the obligatory references to "le-Carré-esque overtones".

The over-all feeling is one of subdued melancholy, with the Eiffel Tower glowing at night outside the window, and Dickon Hinchliffe's music holding the audience in suspense like salmon in aspic.

But when a single, terrible event takes place, the mood swings to that of classic Hollywood suspense, like John M Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven (1945) or George Stevens's A Place in the Sun (1951), movies in which a beautiful lake becomes the epicentre of danger.

She makes you think of Graham Greene in one of his lighter moods as she teases out the emotional responses to a situation of extreme distress, managing grimness, terror and suspense like an artist mixing paint, getting the right tint, the proper degree of shadow.

I would recommend this to readers who like suspense books or just a great book which keeps you reading.

Prompt apologies are generally best: we may like suspense in our games, but we hate it when there are loose ends in our sporting dramas.

Hollywood looks a lot different from inside the trunk of a car, which is where Hedda Chase, "one of the most powerful women in town," finds herself in Elizabeth Brundage's painfully intimate novel of psychological suspense, A STRANGER LIKE YOU (Plume, paper, $15).

That said, let's remember that our minds don't really like suspense.

Cube, Saw, Demons, The Exterminating Angel all feature hapless victims locked in inescapable situations - a guaranteed formula for suspense that we like to call "shooting fish in a barrel".