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Example sentences for: thriller

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Plenty of white-guy blandness on display in Tom Clancy's Netforce , a thriller about an elite group of FBI cyber-cops in the year 2005 who are fighting Internet crime and a powerful computer titan modeled after Bill Gates (ABC, Monday and Thursday at 9 p.m.).
Andrew Kevin Walker, the screenwriter of Seven (1995) and of the new snuff-film thriller 8MM , must have grown up watching hundreds of hours of kinky detective shows.
Excellent notices all around for this "psychological thriller that actually thrills" about a "sad little hamster of a boy" (Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ) who sees visions of dead people and the psychologist (Bruce Willis cast against type) determined to help him.
The exhilarating surprise of her new novel is that in it, she masters one of the most contrived forms of all, the thriller.
More plaudits for Margaret Atwood's Victorian thriller Alias Grace: In the New York Times Book Review , Francine Prose compares the book to a 19 th -century novel, because of its "spooky plot twists" and "engrossing narrative."