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Example sentences for: thrillers

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Mine run less toward schlock romances than schlock thrillers but, hey, I can recognize an expertly engineered, inspirational soap opera when I see one.
In the new genetic thrillers, it's the scientist who makes a last-ditch stand against an irresponsible society--reflecting a role for scientists as the defenders of ethical principles that were born at the Nazi doctor trials at Nuremberg and endured through the Cold War.
Yes, it's mechanical, even metronomical, but thrillers are built out of wheels and pulleys and ticking clocks, and De Palma's machines are more intricate than anyone's since Hitchcock.
Its fleetness comes from its director, Joseph Ruben, who once made crackerjack, BS-free thrillers such as Dreamscape (1984), The Stepfather (1987), and True Believer (1989).
If my book-loving peers would rather spend their beach reading on plodding thrillers than on the heart-stopping adventure stories of Philip Pullman (author of the "Dark Materials" trilogy), say, or the scintillating allegory of Norton Juster ( The Phantom Tollbooth ), then nothing could be done about it, short of reading aloud to them when they were laid up with the flu (which does work, but you lose your voice).