Sometimes it's the little things that happen or don't happen that heighten suspense. |
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Clearly, there was plenty of suspense built into this year's player rankings. |
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Technically it's presented as a question though the audience experiences no real suspense about the outcome. |
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The film builds suspense in a skillfully organic manner, then never pays off. |
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It offers just as much humour as suspense, and both elements are extremely well done. |
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What little suspense there might have been was punctured for me by Howard disclosing most of it. |
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Although the special effects are fairly impressive, De Palma fails to generate any real suspense. |
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Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense. |
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The mixed metaphor is unfortunate, but his story line sounds promising and adds suspense. |
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There is effective suspense, sure, but the villains are clearly defined, and any ambiguous characters immediately show their true colors. |
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I let out a heavy sigh and thought hard for a few seconds, unable to register anything except comic books and fiction suspense novels. |
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The certainty that each and every plan will be thwarted deflates any suspense the film may try to generate. |
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The excitement and suspense mounts and ebbs in its very own cyclical fashion, just like the tides. |
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The creaking of the uneven bars in gymnastics helps build the suspense in this riveting event. |
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Ana couldn't contain herself any longer, the suspense was killing her, she had to ask him, she just had to. |
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Unfortunately, despite a certain amount of suspense in the first act, the story becomes increasingly convoluted and curiously uninvolving. |
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But the journey, which leads to the discovery of shards of ancient pottery and the bones of extinct sloths, makes for a story of great suspense. |
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The suspense is killing me, I have to know if he will choose to leave or not! |
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Well finally the suspense ends and starts another chapter of the epic adventure of Alex, Arthur, Winter, and the mysterious bowman. |
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The suspense was killing me as I popped the disc in the player and settled down. |
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Eight years later his 16th novel marked a change of genre, to suspense thriller. |
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A black and white film, it forwent many of the traditional Hitchcockian devices of suspense. |
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Finishing it, I knew it had to be the greatest suspense novel ever written. |
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Let me give you one instance of how Levin structures suspense from the first part of the film. |
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This film matched elegant Hitchcockian suspense with a playful appreciation of the way love can make fools and liars of us all. |
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From the claustrophobic setting of an underwater oil rig to the potential nuclear meltdown each scene slowly tightens the screws of suspense. |
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Forget tension and suspense, stereotype the characters and make them behave obviously to a script we've seen many times before. |
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Lastly, this keeping of the suspense for a whole week is a bit of overkill. |
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There are moments of titillation and suspense, but ultimately the movie is heavy on concept, not content. |
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The odds are stacked against the villains from the outset, robbing the reader of much suspense. |
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A formulaic plot, predictable storyline, and a slow beginning hurt what in some places is a nice suspense thriller. |
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He just hoped that Faye would reply soon because the suspense was killing him. |
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A variety of video effects, such as wipes and dissolves, can help generate a feeling of suspense. |
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They mix with the crowd telling stories and dropping one-liners to kindle interest and build suspense. |
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Seven students at Al-Azhar couldn't stand the suspense anymore and flew to Indonesia to find out the whereabouts of their kith and kin. |
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The film makes crafty use of suspense from the beginning and there are subtle elements of mystery. |
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Most of the film is spent working very hard to build suspense and distract the audience with red herrings that stop being effective early on. |
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Promise me a monster suspense film and it ends up being a third-rate Scooby-Doo episode. |
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But apart from creating suspense, the novel also foregrounds dialogical questions, handling them dialogically rather than propounding any thesis. |
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Still, as their winning streak drained the suspense out of the show, no event needed a running joke more. |
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In a claustrophobic suspense story, you could see how this might come in handy. |
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It's amazing how a few simple tweaks of a standard talent show format can add intrigue, suspense and interest. |
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It's an action-packed piece, with all the suspense and espionage cliches firmly in place. |
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This is a thriller that cheekily defies the ground rule of keeping you in suspense about who did it. |
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With a rhyme-scheme of ABABCCAB, the A rhymes start the suspense moving across several lines and establish a network to which the poem returns. |
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The Ring is a great suspense film that will draw you in and keep you riveted until the final seconds. |
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The suspense here is of the slow-burn variety, rather than the non-stop roller coaster ride of thrillers that just go for the adrenaline rush. |
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It's an artfully crafted French romantic comedy with just a touch of drama to keep the viewer slightly in suspense. |
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Brian, the whole country is pivoting on what you might call a needle of suspense. |
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For those of you who have been living in suspense, this is the low-down on kale asparagus from the Heritage Seed Library people. |
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If you sense that suspense, do you still want to live here in all disturbance and all indetermination? |
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To save you the suspense, I'll tell you now that it is not going to unfold as planned. |
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The story line is telegraphed from word one and the meticulous unfolding plot plods ahead inexorably without the slightest bit of suspense. |
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Now the wheel is turning towards romance and intrigue and back-stabbing in other settings, with game shows, suspense and youth shows for variety. |
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The turns and twists of the dialogue keep us on the tenterhooks of suspense. |
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Directors of horror and suspense films would be wise to check out Koi Kaze. |
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When he wants to be, he is a master of the macabre and a skilled technician of suspense. |
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Ngqwala said that detailed reconciliations of balances on suspense accounts could not be furnished by the office. |
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Even though it's riddled with melodrama, this is still a high quality internal affairs suspense thriller. |
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Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense. |
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Kiarostami is on cutting duties again, and his edit makes for moments of punishing suspense. |
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It's the only brand of suspense I know in fiction that is so palpable, you can feel it on your skin. |
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The families suffered a night of unbearable suspense before the disturbed earth was revealed as nothing more than two badger setts. |
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What happened to the suspense of last year, when juniors-to-be were shaking in their boots, not knowing where they would live the next year? |
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There just doesn't seem to be any real suspense in romantic comedies any more. |
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If you like well written and interesting suspense movies, this movie is worth a shot. |
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Finally, he took a year's leave of absence, so great was his need to finish writing his first suspense novel. |
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Then I went out, because I couldn't bear the suspense of waiting to see if it would set. |
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If anything, knowing the plot and the protagonists will heighten the suspense. |
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The drum roll lasted longer on this one and the suspense was maddening. |
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It was a tense matchup that made up in suspense for what it lacked in aesthetics. |
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While it's a little talkier and more reliant on suspense and mystery than trigger-happy American action shows, it should please any fan of cloak-and-dagger antics. |
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The tale begins at the climactic moment of the take-over, and somehow the suspense keeps on rising with every passing sequence. |
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The suspense was worse than anything else the Jovians could do to them. |
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Most crucially, Happy Valley revolutionizes the connection between rape and suspense. |
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The suspense was killing me, even though I knew what he would say. |
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There's another 4 days left on that and the suspense is killing me! |
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I'm currently waiting for so much stuff, the suspense is killing me. |
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Even so, writers of suspense fiction vary in their reliance on and dedication to fact. |
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Stainton has helmed Irwin's cable exploits for years, and he understands the inherent drama and suspense in diddling with deadly snakes and toothy reptiles. |
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There is lots of humor to leaven the suspense, as Christie fans will expect, particularly in scenes where Poirot gets to trump suspects who have treated him dismissively. |
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As Errol spirals into madness, his brother desperately tries to rescue him from himself in a story whose suspense is dark. |
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Like any good suspense novelist, Shields is a master of evasion and sleight-of-hand. |
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Gillian Flynn, the bestselling suspense writer of Gone Girl, has also spun out a juicy thriller. |
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Seems to me like the blindness is a McGuffin, just brought up to generate suspense for that one sequence, then dropped as if the audience is just going to forget about it. |
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Two dozen hourlong tales of mystery, suspense, comedy, and intrigue delivered over the course of a year. |
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The marquise soon ended the suspense by attending the queen and appearing at court functions more highly rouged and magnificently arrayed than ever. |
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True suspense and deft plotting are subverted in the name of needlessly convoluted conspiracies. |
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But those two identifications are still subjects of debate, a problem that adds to the suspense now mounting at Amphipolis. |
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Is it possible that there is an anti-feminist element buried in the nature of suspense itself? |
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When a horror series is not horrifying, the suspense that keeps you tuning in is gone. |
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It is a slow-boiler of a film, an exercise in the suspense that spooky children, locked doors, creaking floors, mist, candles and shifty characters do best. |
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It is a novel of suspense and secrets, a pastoral novel that slowly tears the pastoral apart. |
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He systematically builds up the suspense until ultimately the ending comes upon you surprisingly, almost shockingly, leaving you cold and unbelieving. |
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But unfortunately, the film also tries to be a suspense thriller, a love story, and god knows what else, until it finally becomes what they used to call mulligan stew. |
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Already sales of the book are going well and Kieran is confident that once again children will lap-up the air of mystery and suspense surrounding his books. |
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After his two ventures into the supernatural, M Night Shyamalan switches to extraterrestrials in a quiet, unshowy film that builds up a real head of suspense. |
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Both are put to the test here even more formidably than in the previous books, as a plot of nerve-tingling suspense and brain-teasing deviousness ramifies. |
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The budding writers touched upon a wide spectrum of issues ranging from suspense, fantasy, ghosts, sporting rivalry to philosophy and science fiction. |
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He knows how to build suspense, delight, alarm, shock, despair. |
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It's odd, but it keeps you in suspense for what will happen next. |
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I can't stand the suspense of waiting for the machine to get it. |
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It's wonderful that I put you in suspense if that hardly ever happens. |
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I was sitting in suspense wondering what exactly had happened. |
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The crowd is in suspense, wondering how things will go for the dog. |
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For an hour after the decision was made in Singapore, the crowd in front of city hall was still waiting in suspense for the official announcement. |
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There was genuine suspense, and that just makes it a great story. |
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Well, this is the real world, not the world of action films and suspense novels, and yet the same principle is at work here as it is in the world of fiction. |
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Yes, the movie goes for short-term thrills instead of building suspense. |
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The book has moments of great seriousness, and even some genuine suspense. |
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As a suspense film in the Hitchcock vein, yeah, it's wonderful. |
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Much of the plot in bare-bones form would make a nifty suspense thriller. |
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The mystery of these implicit questions heightens the novel's suspense. |
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A couple of hyperbatons here and there can help create more suspense. |
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His voice-over is used very cleverly to increase suspense and shocks. |
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These acts, which range from trampoline performers to high wire funambulists, provide audience members with edge-of-your-seat excitement and pulse-pounding suspense. |
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Unfortunately the plot of the film tends at times to be almost giveaway, there is little suspense and few surprises except in the effects and action. |
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Ibbotson is dextrous with pace and suspense, accessible, always amusing, and a treat to read aloud, and the book is both joyously light-hearted and profoundly good-hearted. |
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But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota. |
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Both in its structure and topography, this half of the book privileges delay, wandering, discursiveness, and ultimately suspense through a proliferation of places. |
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All of the supposed intrigue and suspense leads up to a climactic scene which is about as exciting as watching two middle-aged doofuses having a shovel fight in a garage. |
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He shoots in lush 35 mm for once, dollying his camera around at just the right moments and placing his lens at just the right length for maximum suspense. |
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A suspense account is a temporary account in the nominal ledger that is used in two main situations. |
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Jump-scares, suspense, and sudden violence are all a major part of the horror genre. |
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. |
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We are interested in transferring this funds that are presently floating and lying idle in a suspense account. |
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Pending the money's use, it is held in a suspense account which sits outside the main Assembly's budgets. |
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The acquired securities are held in a suspense account under the ESOP's trust. |
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This film is a romance, suspense and thriller all rolled into one. A thrillmance! |
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Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness. |
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The operational failures were corrected by placing the excess contributions in a suspense account. |
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In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective and more on generating suspense. |
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The money goes into a suspense account and not towards the employee's state pension. |
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The political undercurrent, as all films based on Clancy novels, is suitably underplayed and the focus is more on suspense and action. |
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The suspense element, found in most films' plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. |
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It has all the elements necessary for drama, controversy, and suspense. |
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While his films had made Hitchcock's name strongly associated with suspense, the TV series made Hitchcock a celebrity himself. |
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What will defeat us is the lateralization of what had remained in a state of metaphoric suspense for thousands of years. |
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The brief segments trying to generate thriller-type suspense are disposably perfunctory. |
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Dry humor and shades of grey distinguish this sharp-witted novel of razor's edge suspense, crafted to keep the reader guessing to the very end. |
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The suspense and the gallows humour that had become Hitchcock's trademark in his films continued to appear in his American productions. |
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Excellent historical flavor and details permeate a fast-paced historical suspense novel. |
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Gary's writing goes between black comedy to poeticism to real thriller and suspense. |
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He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. |
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However, plans frequently fail to allocate their suspense accounts in accordance with their plan documents prior to the merger. |
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Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. |
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While it's more a whydunnit than a whodunnit, it offers an atmosphere-heavy masterclass in suspense. |
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So we created a whole concept of visiting each other's mobile profiles, standing in line and trick-or-treating, creating suspense about what you're actually going to get. |
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The longer the movie runs, the crazier it becomes, scenes of fine Hitchcockian suspense butting up against extended forays into Eurotrash exploitation. |
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Questions involving suspense accounts are a good test of your double-entry skills, requiring you to establish what has happened and decide how to correct it. |
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Award-winning author Jamie Cortland presents Skin Deep, a dark tale of suspense following a divorced single mother's involvement with the wrong man. |
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Nuyorican Poets Cafe Short Story Slam winner Sierra Kay's new suspense novel From Behind The Curtain is to be released this month, it was reported on Tuesday. |
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Greene's friend Mario Soldati, a Piedmontese novelist and film director, believed it had the makings of a suspense film about Yugoslav spies in postwar Venice. |
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The thriller film's key characteristics are excitement and suspense. |
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With respect to a leveraged ESOP in which the plan allocates the proceeds from the sale of the unallocated shares previously held in suspense pursuant to Regs. |
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The wages were paid into the bank on Monday but because the account was being closed, the money went into a suspense account until it could be worked out where it should go. |
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In 2011, the voting order was determined by the results of a jury the day before the final so as to create as much suspense as possible when the votes were revealed. |
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