Suspense Sentence Examples

Finally she could bear the suspense no longer.

Howie kept us in suspense until we assumed our seats around the table.

He paused, to build the suspense.

Between the date of these letters and the day of her execution wellnigh three months of suspense elapsed.

Fred began sorting through his papers, taking his time, building the suspense.

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Is it a suspense thriller, a romantic drama or even a who-done-it?

In 1842 he withdrew to Littlemore, and lived there under monastic conditions with a small band of followers, their life being one of great physical austerity as well as of anxiety and suspense.

There is a lot of talk and little suspense throughout, even during the chase scenes.

Is it more suspense oriented, very gory, extreme stunt set pieces?

The law laid down the method to be employed in this case, but pending the completion of the rural taxation this detailed application of the system was allowed to remain in suspense.

The year 1615 seems to have been a period of suspense.

Finally Rachel could stand the suspense no longer.

Dean paused before answering, not just to build the suspense, but to think how much information to divulge.

The film succeeds not only in terms of action and suspense but as cautionary fable, historical allegory, social satire and moral disquisition.

He also constructed an amazing level of psychological suspense from very simple stories.

Satoshi Kon's PERFECT BLUE was directed (and publicized) as tho it was a Hitchcockian live-action suspense feature.

Critics have favorably compared NOIR to such genre-defining live-action suspense films as The Professional and La Femme Nikita.

Well, Brown weaves them into a modern-day suspense thriller about attempts to discover or destroy evidence of our " true " history.

The story moves slowly, which makes the suspense almost unbearable.

After even the finest things in Tannhauser, the Vorspiel to Lohengrin comes as a revelation, with its quiet solemnity and breadth of design, its ethereal purity of tone-colour, and its complete emancipation from earlier operatic forms. The suspense and climax in the first act is so intense, and the whole drama is so well designed, that we must have a very vivid idea of the later Wagner before we can see how far the quality of musical thought still falls short of his ideals.

But dogmatic atheism is rare compared with the sceptical type, which is identical with agnosticism in so far as it denies the capacity of the mind of man to form any conception of God, but is different from it in so far as the agnostic merely holds his judgment in suspense, though, in practice, agnosticism is apt to result in an attitude towards religion which is hardly distinguishable from a passive and unaggressive atheism.

The true philosopher, therefore, is not the Pyrrhonist, trying to maintain an impossible equilibrium or suspense of judgment, but the Academic, yielding gracefully to the impressions or maxims which he finds, as matter of fact, to have most sway over himself.'

By playing off one against the other he succeeded in holding both in suspense, and induced them to conclude agreements safeguarding the pope and the Medici.

Months of suspense followed; for the powers had threatened to cast their weight into the scale against whichever side should prove the aggressor, and Mehemet Ali was too astute to make the first move.

The church shared the universal belief that holiness or the holy Spirit is quasi-material and capable of being held in suspense in water, just as sin is a half material infection, absorbed and carried away by it.

Jim the horse had seen these spires, also, and his ears stood straight up with fear, while Dorothy and Zeb held their breaths in suspense.

What follows is a suspense filled movie that has just the right amount of humor.

However, the company revealed little about the new product in order to " maintain the suspense ".

It does n't really help that there is n't enough suspense in the story to keep people entertained.

Second, who wants to wait over a year for the outcome of a suspense thriller?

When the score does appear it is the usual strings you hear in suspense drama, but it is effective nonetheless.

I would n't recommend this book to people who want their suspense fiction to be a relaxing escape.

Spielberg is unbelievable and he 's delivered a great suspense movie.

Satoshi Kon 's PERFECT BLUE was directed (and publicized) as tho it was a Hitchcockian live-action suspense feature.

But Mark Gillies does, and this introduces him to the fear and suspense of a tramp steamer journey off the African coast.

Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.

How could these be used with the unvoiced sounds to build a composition that creates a feeling of suspense?

Now, remember, most teens won't say specific genres such as, mystery, suspense or romance.

Fortunately, for youngsters who like their stories with a bit of suspense and terror involved, there's no shortage of scary read alouds for children.

The tale about an egg that hatches while the mother bird is looking for food is a nice choice for building a little suspense while enjoying a loveable tale.

Second, the book must have suspense and offer possibilities of scarier things to come.

The suspense can't be shallow or fake, the reader will see through it from the first chapter.

Although not everybody is a reality TV buff, if you haven't tuned in to a Dancing with the Stars episode, you've missed out on a whole lot of fun and suspense.

For those who can't get enough of the dancing reality series, expect that Dancing with the Stars will return for a seventh season, igniting the dance floor with more raw talent and a season full of suspense.

The next level up, if you want to create your own video games that involve action, shooting and lots of suspense, are the game-creation programs that literally let you design a 3D game level to play.

Whether or not you're a fan of the original Indiana Jones movies, you'll love the intrigue, suspense and adventure you'll find within every generation of this popular game series.

This can get intense because it plays like the single-player game in terms of suspense and stealth.Also, Far Cry includes a multiplayer level-editor.

It's enough action and suspense for Metroid fans and newbies alike.

This action/RPG contains elements of intrigue, suspense, and love.

So You Think You Can Dance episodes have left viewers in suspense as they have cheered on their favorite dancers for the past four years.

This is actually the secret to MJ's hip thrust; build suspense by not dancing around too much preceding it, then choose a section of music that is fairly slow in tempo.

Perhaps it's purpose is to create suspicion to heighten suspense.

The emphasis seems to be more on embracing current trends than generating suspense.

The line ` Today he got away with it ' created suspense.

However, the company revealed little about the new product in order to " maintain the suspense " .

Jaye is also the author of a romantic suspense, Aces, and has additional works in progress.

It doesn't really help that there isn't enough suspense in the story to keep people entertained.

History records who won, but if you happen not to know the book still offers a story of real suspense.

However, upon playing more you'll come to realize how much suspense this adds to the game, which it really does need.

What in her sometimes seemed irresolution and procrastination, was, most often, a wise suspense of judgment under exceptionally difficult circumstances; and to this may be added that she was ever ready to sacrifice the prejudices of the woman to the duty of the sovereign.

The money should be placed in a suspense account.

Making a board game about Egypt can go in so many directions from being historically accurate to taking some liberties to create a game filled with suspense and mystery.

I am wondering if your date felt there was little mystery or suspense left to discover.

The Twilight world set in Forks, Washington with its supernatural clashes between vampires, werewolves and humans has a blend of adventure, mystery, suspense and romance that people of all ages can appreciate.

All suspense hinges on the opening of that little sealed envelope, an envelope that often seals the future of many a giddy Hollywood newcomer or re-ignites interest in an older celebrity whose star had begun to fade.

The story that unfolds is a classic cat and mouse game with incredible tension and suspense.

In 1976, audiences were held in suspense by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in the first of the Omen series of horror movies.

Movie companies invest time and effort to craft a compelling trailer that captures their movie's excitement, intrigue, suspense, romance, laughs, drama, and pathos.

Use the site to search for movie scripts by name or by genre (such as sports, suspense, action, comedy and more).

The site is organized by genre (from Comedy, to Action to Horror to Suspense) and is affordable.

Tying a tagline with a testimonial for the film from Hitchcock himself, the master of suspense is even featured on the poster.

On those dark, moonlit evenings when campers are huddled around the a glowing fire, campfire ghost stories can create an atmosphere of unbearable suspense and awesome fright.

The secret is out, the suspense is gone, the mystery solved.

Unfortunately, scoops and spoilers can defeat the suspense that is inherent to watching soap operas.

Ultimately Bianca chose not to, but there was no down-to-the-wire suspense on the decision - the fans already knew.

It's the element of surprise, as well as the suspense that keeps viewers coming back episode after episode, for decades at a time.

Not very often are comedy and suspense so successfully merged.

Going back to the concept of the truly odd and dramatic plot lines, soap operas thrive off of conflicting stories and moments of intense rage, suspense and sadness.

If you have one of these serial soap opera watchers in your life who miss an episode, you can tease them with your knowledge and playfully get them worked up in a friendly game of threatening to spoil the suspense and surprise.

Will Hellcats be growing the suspense factor?

A good soundtrack can create drama and suspense, get audiences worked up, and help tell the story, or just make you want to turn up the volume.

A filmmaker might use music in his movie to create a sense of danger, suspense, or calm in a particular scene of the film.

When new thriller, horror, and suspense movies are released every year, a large part of the budget goes into the music composition.

Car-themed decorations can heighten the suspense and help create a fun evening for everyone involved.

If you're truly creative or happen to have the itch to act, try staging your own experience, complete with clues, fake blood and plenty of suspense.

This is also often true on reality game shows, such as Deal or No Deal, whose promotions depend upon viewer suspense.

Green is also a successful author, penning non-fiction books, suspense thrillers, and children's books.

The elements of suspense and surprise are gone.

Paranormal suspense is the foster child of romance, suspense and science fiction with the occasional horror thrown in.

Suspense keeps the reader on the edge of the seat, desperate to solve the mystery and save the community, town, city or world.

Unlike urban fantasy where the challenge is to the main character, paranormal suspense may involve challenges to others that the main character must save.

Authors such as Heather Graham and Kay Hooper delve deeply into paranormal suspense with novels of otherworldly darkness and evil personified.

Dean couldn't stand the suspense.

All immediate danger to France was ended, but the issue of the war was still in suspense.

The bfi release Alfred Hitchcock's beguiling blend of romanticism and nightmarish suspense, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

She watched him with the sickening certainty that if he got away she could never survive the years of suspense until his inevitable return.

It's a simple plot but one that is well-written and absolutely masterful in the suspense stakes.

The Levanter, Eric Ambler's 1972 suspense novel, is topical again, given the recent strife in the Middle East.

There was a dead silence of suspense among the crowd as the ball described a lofty parabola.

A truly sensuous, erotic, fast paced action adventure, that will leave you gasping in more than suspense.

Which leaves the two sextet takes of " Acknowledgment " to beg the question, were they worth all those years of suspense?

In some cases suspense of judgment seems necessary even from the standpoint of Christian faith.

Many of the arguments by which the Sceptics enforced their ad vocacy of a suspense of judgment are antiquated in type, but many also are, within the limits of the individualistic theory of knowledge, quite unanswerable.

The new French ambassador, Admiral Roussin, had arrived on the 17th; he now, with the full concurrence of Mandeville, the British charge d'affaires, persuaded the Porte to invite the Russians to withdraw, undertaking that France would secure the acceptance by Mehemet Ali of the sultan's terms. A period of suspense followed.

From the subjectivist point of view, which is manifestly fundamental through most of this, such arguments suasory of the Pyrrhonist suspense of judgment (i ro X i i) are indeed hard to answer.

After an anarchic period of suspense, lasting from 1546 to 1561, during which Sweden secured Esthonia, while Ivan the Terrible fearlessly ravaged Livonia, in the hope of making it valueless to any other potentate, Sigismund II., to whom both the grand-master and the archbishop had appealed more than once for protection, at length intervened decisively.

At each of the great festivals, which to please him were for once crowded into a single year, he entered in regular form for the various competitions, scrupulously conformed to the tradition and rules of the arena, and awaited in nervous suspense the verdict of the umpires.

Secondly, it is necessary in view of this fact to preserve an attitude of intellectual suspense (broxii), or, as Timon expressed it, 015,36), uaXXov (i.e.