Sentences with phrase «in suspense by»

Hardy negotiators spend much of their lives waiting around on these occasions and, as usual, were kept in suspense by Gordon Brown and Hamid Karzai.

The historicity of those sayings of Jesus which are most like the kerygma has been put indefinitely in suspense by methodological considerations.

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It gets people talking, and makes sure they'll tune in when you finally kill the suspense by sharing your new idea.

Foreign allies and companies that source steel and aluminum from abroad were left in suspense about how the tariffs deadline would play out until late Monday and were fretting about the uncertainty created by the situation.

He broke the suspense by preemptively addressing it in the interview during the flight to America.

Recent comments by GM Garth Lagerway may have taken some of the DP suspense out of the air, but it remains to be seen if the Sounders are able to add a supplementary player to the roster in the meantime.

By the way, in order not to keep you in suspense, what I frankly saw is a woman,» he wrote on his Facebook page.

By the time he took the rostrum in the House chamber last night for the functional equivalent of a State of the Union address, President Trump had generated considerable suspense around what he would actually say and how it would be received.

The stage is set for the big battle on Saturday and Nigeria Politics Online's Olaitan Osola is in Ondo to give minute - by minute account of what promises to be a great suspense in history of elections in Nigeria.

The fictional Iron Man exoskeleton debuted in Tales of Suspense # 39 in 1963 and was conceived, designed, created, and piloted by «world's greatest engineer» Tony Stark.

Well anyways, so he actually does go to England and sneaks, by hiding in a trunk — okay, I'm not going to reveal what happens so your listeners will still be in some suspense as to whether or not he's able to seduce the wife of -

It's only in the last fifteen minutes when things finally pick up and all the bits start coming together, but it never feels like the so - called «suspense» that's been building — and we're being charitable by suggesting that it has — leads to anything particularly exciting or shocking.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

EDWARD BURNS stars in Franchise Pictures» suspense thriller «A Sound of Thunder» also starring Catherine McCormack and Ben Kingsley and distributed by Warner Bros..

The far - from - engrossing vibe is compounded by a quizzical dearth of action or suspense oriented interludes, and it does, as a result, become more and more difficult to work up any real interest in or sympathy for the central character's exploits (which proves especially problematic by the time the twist - laden finale rolls around).

Thanks to a layered performance by Franco and director Rupert Goold's willingness to let him play silent moments for maximum tension, «True Story» continually surprises you with scenes in which suspense creeps into casual scenes and makes them something else.

With the exception of one genuinely breathtaking, blood - curdling ambush, «Annihilation» has little interest in the conventional mechanics of suspense and surprise, as evidenced by an array of flashbacks and flash - forwards that reveal at least one outcome of Lena's journey (she lives!)

[*** SPOILERS ***] movie would be better if they left out the first scene revealing that cruise would be captured by the bad guy at the end therefor reaveling that no matter what he did durring the movie you knew for a fact that the bad guy would not die untill that scene was compleate and so in all the scenes there was no suspense, you also already knew he would not get to his wife in time and she would be eventualy captured just like hoffman claimed he would do.

The finale, involving the assassination attempt during Zuwanie's speech, seems too much like those enacted in other Hollywood thrillers to be fresh and was drained of suspense by its too cleverly devised twists.

A brilliant mini series by the BBC with a superb pair of leading cast members, The Night Manager is exactly what many of us want in these types of shows: intrigue, suspense, class, strategy and some unknowns.

In addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetypIn addition to Mr. Tarantino's trademark dialogue - heavy, suspense - filled set pieces, there are moments of pure silliness, like a gathering of hooded night riders (led by Don Johnson), and a late escapade (featuring Mr. Tarantino speaking in an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetypin an Australian accent) that perhaps owes more to Bugs Bunny than to any other cultural archetype.

But all suspense in the Back to the Future trilogy is overshadowed by Marty's plot, in Part I, to stage George McFly's bravery: to assert himself upon his own mother so aggressively that she'll beg him to relent.

The other approach to suspense music - of having soft strings occasionally punctuated by violent stings from brass and percussion - can also be found in the score («Breaking In», for instance, though that does develop into some great action music as it progressesin the score («Breaking In», for instance, though that does develop into some great action music as it progressesIn», for instance, though that does develop into some great action music as it progresses).

The acting was strong by all the cast and between this and the non stop action, comedy, interscene heightening of thrill and suspense, this makes up for the somewhat weak plot in places.

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

It's in Saulnier's script, which balances fraught suspense with understated irony, brought to life by an incredibly naturalistic set of actors.

The finale, set at the drive - in, is an extended sequence of immense terror, beautifully staged by the director for maximum suspense.

I guess the kinds of people who loved this movie are captivated by suspense and good graphics, both of which this movie had, but neither of which is enough to make me interested in a movie.

Rating: PG - 13 (for terror and some bloody images) Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense Directed By: John Krasinski Written By: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski In Theaters: Apr 6, 2018 Wide Runtime: 90 minutes Studio: Paramount Pictures

But the ensuing suspense and the enveloping paranoia and spookiness - stretched out by the exhaustive length of the film here - mean that this film really sucks you in.

By bringing the complex psychology of Brian Garfield's book up - to - the - moment and injecting new thrills and a stark, unflinching look at the American psyche in 2017, Eli Roth and Death Wish bring audiences to the height of unforgettable suspense.

No one is there, maybe, in «The Pact,» a tightly controlled low - budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense.

«The twisted turns of the story, combined with Sofia's empathy for the characters being portrayed by these gifted actors, will keep audiences in suspense.

Wounded by the overwhelmingly baffled reaction to his tale of deadly pollen, and crippled by his growing reputation as an ultra-sensitive yet ham - fisted megalomaniac auteur, Shyamalan threw in the towel — trading his usual suspense for the generic CGI of The Last Airbender and After Earth — but it was too little too late.

Rather than add suspense by withholding the whereabouts of Ellen, Calvo leaves everything out in the open regarding her fate.

I was frustrated by Loktev's first narrative feature, Day Night Day Night, because her decision to elide the specific political motivations of her central character, a would - be suicide bomber, turns the film into a prolonged exercise in Hitchcockian suspense.

Badged up, with half a cup of coffee in me and the printed press screening guide — rendered mostly useless by a dozen last - minute schedule changes — stuffed into my backpack, I head into my first screening of the day: The Lesson, a contrived, slightly smug little Bulgarian number lightened by fitful bursts of suspense and black comedy, and directed in the kind of serioso handheld style that is traditionally associated with the Dardenne brothers, because they're the only ones who know how to pull it off.

The problem with this approach is that not one of the film's observations is new, and its technique — in which artificial suspense is created by cross-cutting multiple story arcs in an attempt to disguise that each one is predictable as a metronome — undermines the quality of its performances.

But while Chandor's script does well to inject some suspense into the story by keeping things tight and claustrophobic with everyone trapped in the office like rats in a cage, it's the actors who truly make the material interesting, even if you don't always understand what they're talking about.

Christian Petzold's last film, the masterful Phoenix, drew complex undercurrents of suspicion, psychological unease, and suspense (not to mention one of the greatest endings in contemporary film) out of the noirish story of a disfigured Holocaust survivor who returns to post-war Berlin and is roped into a scheme by the husband who mistakes her for a stranger.

With a snappy Hitchcockian plot and some great acting by Redford, Three Days of the Condor is top - drawer filmmaking in the suspense department.

(1962, Robert Aldrich) Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, rivals for most of their careers, got two of their greatest roles when they were cast by director Robert Aldrich as the house - bound Hudson sisters, Blanche (Crawford) and Baby Jane (Davis)-- two ex-film-stars turned eccentric recluses — in this mesmerizing, darkly funny, sometimes - touching suspense classic.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.

This is a classic Hitchcock film, but credit should go more to the deft script by playwright Frederick Knott with a really smart succession of twists and turns to keep you in suspense.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

In the ingenious suspense contraption A Quiet Place, Earth has been overrun by blind beasties from above: a species of fast, spindly, vaguely reptilian monsters who can't see their prey but can sure as hell hear it, pouncing with scary velocity at any sound louder than a handclap.

This is also newly remastered and includes the supplements from the earlier DVD special edition: two commentary tracks (on by film historian Richard Schickel, one by film historian / screenwriter Lem Dobbs and film historian Nick Redman), the featurette «Shadows of Suspense,» an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne, and the 1973 TV - movie remake starring Richard Crenna in the MacMurray role, Samantha Eggar as the seductive Phyllis, and Lee J. Cobb as the insurance boss Keys.

In the grand tradition of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Five Miles to Midnight weaves a constantly tightening web of suspense that grips the viewer by the heart and doesn't let go until the final frame.

The new Halloween movie, executive produced by John Carpenter and arriving in theaters next year, will begin filming in Charleston, South Carolina in January, and while plot details are still unknown, co-writer Danny McBride is assuring us that the new film will attempt to capture the same suspense, tension, and dread of Carpenter's 1978 original.