Sentence examples for suspenseful narrative from inspiring English sources

This book doesn't have a suspenseful narrative.

The pleasure we take in strong and suspenseful narrative precludes it.

For one, it's an excellent film, and there is far more to it than violence, including a suspenseful narrative and a spellbinding performance from Casey Affleck.

Alongside this highly suspenseful narrative, The Drowned Detective offers a host of deft characterisations, such as Jonathan's colleague, Istvan, a plump man "with an owlish face and kind demeanour.

But, he added, citing another of Mr. Amenábar's films, "In the end, suspenseful narrative devices that worked so effectively in a gothic fantasy like 'The Others' feel contrived when applied to what's supposed to be a true story of life, death and the living hell from which Ramón finally escapes".

The comic promises the sort of taut, suspenseful narrative common to most fictions of journalistic derring-do: Maureen Dowd, the famous and popular political opinion columnist, is about to write her most powerful and influential column ever!! She's come in possession of information that could topple the American government, destroy the White House and bring the Free World to its knees.

Even more remarkable is Saunders's knack for joining together scraps of sound in absorbing, even suspenseful, narratives.

Literary critics have spotted his suspended or suspenseful narratives and themes of alienation and quiet desperation in the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley and many others.

In recent stories, however, there has been a more pronounced tendency on Ms. Munro's part deliberately to stage-manage her people's fates, resulting not only in more conventionally suspenseful narratives but also in tales that can feel implausible and contrived.

Smuts argues that in all suspenseful narratives and in all suspenseful situations in real life we find factors that partially frustrate one's ability to satisfy a desire, factors that suspend one's efficacy.

Though her scurrying about with Tatiana, trying to prevent the preposterous duel, is one of several gratuitous distractions in Cranko's otherwise suspenseful narrative-building.