Much of the suspense depends upon the audience's awareness of a danger unknown to the characters in the film.
The mastery of the latter suggested that it was a considerably more mature Nabokov who dreamed up, for instance, the insouciant opening paragraph of "Laughter," which, by giving away the story, alerts readers that the novel is about more than narrative suspense: Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.
The sustaining of suspense depends entirely upon the explanations never happening in our earshot.
An epic meditation on recent Irish history travels upon our own suffocating suspense.
Without much exposition, Yanal seizes upon the notion that suspense requires uncertainty.
The audience hangs upon her every movement in suspense.
It can, therefore, be said that, for a spectator, watching sport is an experience of high suspense, and this suspense, in turn, depends upon the degree of uncertainty in the outcome.
Like many of the stories of H. P. Lovecraft it was based upon, Alone in the Dark generated suspense from the gradual immersion of its hero into a disturbing world of eldritch mystery just below the surface of everyday reality.
I was more caught up in the suspense of the series, the rapture of gazing upon Pérez 's art and the voyeuristic experience of being with heroic yet addled characters.
Upon seeing Das Boot (1981), the second world war suspense film made by Wolfgang Petersen, critics and gay audiences alike assumed it could only have come from a gay director.
