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Example sentences for: suspense

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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.
"The regular pattern of suspense has worn thin," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane.
Partly as a cheap way to build suspense, and partly to force readers to plow through my pet theories before giving them the goods, I'm going to take a stab at the first question and leave the second one for later.
In one episode, notes Time 's James Collins, "the only source of suspense ...
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."