Sentence examples for unexpected suspense from inspiring English sources

There is unexpected suspense in the story.

In "Math on Trial," the mother-daughter team Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez impart the "dramas of people who saw their lives ripped apart by simple mathematical errors" with unexpected suspense.

Yet even more than when I saw the creamy, highly enjoyable 1996 Broadway revival, I found myself thinking that it's that very tension between a hollow center (of life, not the play) and a drawing-room style that gives this work its unexpected poignancy and suspense.

His convoluted tales have unexpected twists that maintain suspense for the reader.

Without forsaking her all-purpose heroine or altering the basic plot dynamics for placing her in peril, this savvy author always comes up with something unexpected to give her standard suspense formula a new kick.

Meaning: more fleshed-out plots, a deeper cast of supporting characters even a push of Roberts' romance fiction into more unexpected genres like mystery and suspense.

In 1993 when The Hand That Rock The Cradle, a low-budget, two-dimensional suspense emerged as an unexpected blockbuster he was entrusted to make L.A. Confidential.

Depending on the author's sensibility, the structure can be a way of building pure suspense, or of revealing unexpected psychological depths in the cast of characters.

In France, writing in the daily Liberation, Rene Solis observed that Ms. Reza had turned a soap operatic story set in an educated bourgeois home into "a brilliant exercise, full of suspense, false clues and unexpected plot changes".

Keep watching, though, because the intrigue and suspense keep building in unexpected ways as the series goes on, until everything culminates in one of the most perfectly unconventional finales you will ever see.

Director Ian Kessner hits each note squarely as the cast's increasing panic and unexpected frights causes higher states of suspense.