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Example sentences for: suspense

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Actually, Hopkins gives this humanistic magnate considerable weight, so that whether or not Death takes him before he can stop to smell the roses and make amends to his neglected children becomes a matter of some suspense.
And while it's true that you can't pack as much psychological detail into a movie as you can into a novel, director Philip Saville and screenwriter Adrian Hodges bring out the yeasty subtext of even the most brittle encounters: The suspense is in waiting to hear how characters will phrase what you've already read in their faces.
Emmerich cribs his basic suspense techniques (the low-angle camera riding in on open-mouthed spectators) from Spielberg's Jaws and Jurassic Park , his egg imagery from Alien , his marauding baby dinosaurs from Gremlins , and a scene of the U.S.
Among its faults: inane characters, incoherent plot, lack of suspense, and self-knowing allusions to the original.
The pessimistic view: This robs the WNBA of suspense and makes it boring, which a fledgling league can ill afford.