Sentences with phrase «amount of suspense»

The right amount of suspense, frustration, and addiction.

She also sustains a surprising amount of suspense — Alliluyeva's defection in 1967 in particular has the tension of a spy thriller or an episode of «The Americans.»

Add to all of that Amber's devious plot to steal away Daphne's husband (with some twists that I can not mention, since that would be giving away major plot spoilers), and, here too, the authors grab the reader with just the right amount of suspense to turn this into a real psychological thriller, but it is also not overly heavy or dark, making it all the more readable.

I think it gives authenticity to the story, especially a work of historical fiction (in this case based on a real story) and I feel the author was able to create a certain amount of suspense by slowly revealing things in a unique way.

The little amount of suspense that the film does generate eventually dissolves and is unrewarding.

There is a decent amount of suspense, as well as a decent amount of gore, but nowhere as over-the-top as in Hannibal.

As a result, there was more than the usual amount of suspense as the winners were revealed.

Painting on a bigger canvas than his previous works, Wingard create an atmosphere that contains just the right amount of suspense, humor, and terror.

Painting on a bigger canvas than his previous works, Wingard created an atmosphere that contains just the right amount of suspense, humor, and terror.

It has the kind of romance one would expect in a soap opera, and with a fair amount of suspense one would expect in a thriller.

Marty's entrapment in the past, decades away from his girlfriend and future wife, ensures some amount of suspense, to be certain.

He was already a celebrity then, but his image grew throughout 1965 when a certain amount of suspense built as to whether he would be drafted, or whether his knee would allow him to play any football at all for Werblin's $ 400,000.

These men had to make extremely difficult decisions about who was an enemy and who wasn't, and Hogan's screenplay wrings generous amounts of suspense out of it.

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The suspense of what item will we purchase, what ideas will run through our minds, what will we cut, the amount of fabric that we will use?

The film's plot creates unceasing amounts of sheer terror and breathtaking suspense as the ship and its crew face realistic and unknown dangers when it is continually threatened by the scientist's natural defenses while dealing with the antibodies and other factors.

At no point do you honestly think they can defeat these alien creatures, so it adds an enormous amount of tension, suspense, and believability.

I was pretty much right — his homely lullaby for Eleanor (Lily Taylor) was appropriately innocent, and his creepy theme (with full strings) for «the house» provided just the right amount of ominous suspense and foreboding in the scene that it was used.

The cinematography is also excellent as Tat Radcliffe (who unsurprisingly worked on BBC's dark and stylish The Shadow Line) gets the maximum amount of drama and suspense out of Belfast's narrow, dark, cobbled streets; dusty, smoked filled pubs; and imposing apartment blocks.

Scott wrings suspense out of the sheer amount of options the space agencies have for a mission where if one astronaut is lost in pursuit of another, the whole thing is a failure.

Affleck certainly did this story justice, trusting the audience with a significant amount of detail and developing suspense on a more cerebral level, leaving you with a deeper respect and understanding of the situation.

It adds to the amount of time he's spent in the room, building the suspense of knowing that someone is coming in at any time.

Most of the suspense is pilfered on an ungodly amount of cheap scares (including more than a few involving the old bathroom mirror trick), and the killer isn't even threatening.

Brackston's spellbinding language is the driving force along with endearing characters and a well balanced narrative with the perfect amounts of witchcraft, mystery, suspense and thrills, even a little romance appears.

Portal 2 While making the original Portal look like a tech demo in the proccess, Valve's masterful sequel delivered just the right amount of set pieces, puzzle solving, laughs, intrigue and suspense to keep players guessing at every turn, all the while making us question how we had ever made it through elementary school.

Amounts over budget may be held in suspense until the client decides, in its discretion, whether to pay (perhaps in light of the ultimate result).