Sentence examples for were not suspense from inspiring English sources

Mr Shafiq, if he won, would be sorely tempted to do so.As if that were not suspense enough, the constitutional court has also declared it will rule, on June 14th, on two potentially game-changing matters.

The point, though, is not suspense but spectacle.

Robert J. Yanal argues that repeaters mis-describe their own emotions; they might feel apprehension or fear in relation to a foreknown event, but they mistakenly report it as suspense: "apprehensiveness is not suspense, though the two often occur together" ("The Paradox of Suspense," British Journal of Aesthetics, 1996).

That's not suspense; that's in fact, the opposite of suspense, as Hitchcock would have gladly pointed out.

But in the only poll that counts — the ratings — viewers also had an overwhelming favorite for the summer season of TV, and it wasn't suspense.

But as this sadly predictable story grinds to its conclusion, the response it engenders isn't suspense or even a queasy disquiet; it's a desire to get a desperate man's cold march to a gory end over as quickly as possible.

That seems a clever mirroring of Scheherazade's own keep-him-in-suspense technique, but there's not much suspense generated here.

All this was not conventional suspense.

There was not much suspense surrounding the outcome.

Unfortunately, there's not much suspense or mystery in this show, which travels to Washington and Chicago.

There's not much suspense, no inventive pacing, no wink-wink irony, no cinematic gimmicks, not much mystery and no awful gore.