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  • The movie's big chase sequence is suspenseful.
  • This soft cover book was published at the end of last year and it is another in the suspenseful thriller genre for which Leather is so well known.
  • They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse.
  • The book is a much more intelligent and suspenseful thriller than the movie.
  • Any special effects are kept to a bare minimum (that is, if you consider a bolt of lighting in the sky an effect), and the scenes are about as suspenseful as watching my three year old nephew get static shocks from walking across a shag carpet.
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  • They trap you and lure you in with catchy taglines and suspenseful previews.
  • And the internal is absolutely fascinating, equally if not more suspenseful, a integral part of the plot in a way not many writers can pull off. Advance reader reviews of The Last Secret by Mary Mcgarry Morris.
  • Yet despite all its suspensefulness, The Talented Mr. Ripley when viewed from a slightly different angle approaches the comic: Tom must switch from one persona to another like a vaudeville quick-change artist, even as the plot complications start to recall classic farces about the mixups resulting from mistaken identities. This Woman Is Dangerous
  • The gimmick lets Nolan have three clocks ticking down instead of one which should be killingly suspenseful. 'Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream
  • Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc. Archive 2009-05-01
  • He had turned his knowledge and talents to the writing of suspenseful books and chilling movies. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • Improbable as it may seem — the tide of serial-killer dramas that TV writers churn out has been unrelenting — the L & O episode about the killer of 19 young women managed a raw suspensefulness, thanks to nimble plot complications involving DNA evidence and a mesmerizing performance by Terrence Howard in the role of Deputy DA Jonah Dekker. The Perps Keep Coming
  • Max, the ordinary guy, will prove to be a little more heroic than Vincent expects, there will be a "suspenseful" chase, and yadda yadda yadda. Collateral
  • The jury didn't buy it -- possibly because Smith, during nine suspenseful days last October, hoodwinked the town and the national news media with a lurid fabrication seemingly drawn from tabloid crime re-ports -- that her children had been abducted by a black car-jacker. Will They Kill Susan Smith?
  • What happens to the three survivors becomes a wild and suspenseful adventure they are faced, on one hand, with reputed man-eating headhunters -- and Japanese troops on the other -- but the adventure remains touched by the elegiac, an abiding sense of loss for those left at the crash site, as the three struggle to remain alive. Carol Muske-Dukes: Lost in Shangri-La
  • Using rack shots when nothing is moving or close-ups to create a sense of suspense where nothing can be considered "suspenseful"; all of it separates the viewer from the film. Articles on CollegiateTimes.com
  • After an excruciatingly suspenseful bomb defusion sequence, THE SMALL BACK ROOM grants Sammy and Susan a happy ending. Delirium Tremendous
  • Vice and Virtue feels very flabby indeed, relying as heavily as it does on endless repititions of the same drab themes and riffs, opening with a huge and utterly pointless slab of "suspenseful" and "cinematic" noise, and insistently sprinkling proceedings with dose after dose of monotony and dullness. The Line Of Best Fit
  • A book that revels in its 'smoke-and-mirrors' suspensefulness, that gains traction in your mind by copying your suburban predispositions intimately, and which is also filled with intelligent writing, must be a book to remember. Happy Antipodean
  • Same brand of teacherly humour, same "light" suspensefulness. HH Com 231 (227)
  • With no warning-and, blessedly, no hokily suspenseful music-we're plunged into a disaster movie, and the victim's-eye view as Marie is hurled along by a wall of water is truly terrifying. Slate Magazine
  • Seen on its own, or as the first part of the classic trilogy of movies, it is still a funny, suspenseful, feel-good movie.
  • suspenseful" television drama and holding "Big Boy" when an explosion took place on the show, startling the kitty, who bit her thumb. Arcata Eye
  • The ensuing investigation is described as a twisting, suspenseful character-study, tautly written to conceal a surprise ending.
  • The writing maintains the suspensefulness that has pervaded this book since #26, and I’m really enjoying the character work Bucky’s targetless rage, Tony’s grief clouding his much-vaunted predictive mind, Sharon’s horror at being controlled as well as Epting & Mike Perkins art. Captain America #30 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • I think what saves this movie from drowning in its own drool is that it's played for laughs, rather than treat it like a suspenseful corporate espionage film. Rabid Rewind: The Informant
  • It's a very suspenseful and atmospheric score, with lots of depth and surprises.
  • So it is very "suspenseful" for both the author and the reader. An Interview with Minette Walters
  • Gerhart called the suspenseful Heisman race "crazy. SplicedFeed
  • Suspenseful music kicks in during combat to accompany the polished sound effects.
  • Telling the simultaneous (and startlingly parallel) stories ofthe legendary architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and one of the nineteenth century's most nefarious serial killers, this thrilling and meticulously researched book is as suspenseful as any fictive whodunit. Possibly We Got A Little Carried Away With Our Holiday Gift Recommendations
  • The sword fight is atmospheric and suspenseful.
  • Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium. NYT > Home Page
  • He blends suspenseful horror with historical drama.
  • The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • i loved twilight and the people playing it, i did not read the book but i am glad because then i would not know what was going to happen next, i liked the suspensefulness ... and they should have edward more in the next one he is sooo hott and made the movie awesome especially with his realationship with Bella KEEP HIM IN PLS Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • They may prefer to dive into a thrilling, suspenseful harum-scarum world when they read. My new secret boyfriend
  • The genuine contents are at several removes from the ‘suspenseful action.’
  • If you want a masterly lesson in suspenseful storytelling, read this book. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Reading shapes writers
  • In “At Last, the Demise of Gaullism” (February 1978), Patricia H. Painton depicted the political landscape on the eve of suspenseful congressional elections. After the Bastille
  • Because Watergate has become part of the received national lore—with heroes, villains, and the comforting moral that crime does not pay—we forget that its outcome was not foreordained and that those two years were very suspenseful. The Good Fight
  • For mothers planning natural births, the next few hours are likely to be suspenseful.
  • The last 20 minutes are actually kind of suspenseful…or maybe they just wake you up compared to what you’ve seen before. The Passing (2008)
  • Placing the auction at the end means the film builds to a suspenseful climax.
  • Unfortunately the mystery is not suspenseful or for that matter interesting enough to carry the plot on it's own.

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