Sentences with phrase «much suspense in»

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(CNN)- Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much he pays in taxes in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

The suggested pattern is no longer so much of divine imposition as one in which Gabriel and God and all the heavens stand in breathless suspense.

CNN: Romney tax returns shine light on Mormon tithing Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much taxes he pays in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

We note in any case, and emphatically, that it is, like so much in the patriarchal narratives, a very good story indeed especially in the graphic portrayal of Tamar, in its deft integration of plot, and in its fine suspense.

The only contested election in Woodstock did not yield much suspense on November 7.

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.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

The Interpreter tries to cast itself in the Hitchcockian tradition of Secret Agent and The Man Who Knew Too Much, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspeMuch, but apart from the film's climactic bus sequence and another nicely crafted sequence toward the movie's end, this thriller never visually builds much tension or suspemuch tension or suspense.

Combine that with as much blood / gore / violence as you can imagine and you've got yourself and breathtaking season that has twists, turns, drama and suspense in every frame.

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.

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 only suspense was in seeing how much.

There's style and intensity in this nasty little British thriller, but a thinly developed script keeps it from generating much real suspense or meaning as the story gets increasingly brutal.On a motorbike adventure, four city...

Ticking clock aside, however, Calvary hasn't much interest in suspense, and its hero doesn't seek the protection or assistance of his neighbors.

With these things, there's no suspense since we pretty much already know what's happening in these scenes so showing them so many times is pointless.

For a story with as much built - in suspense — which it occasionally executes, but not as often as it should — «The Fifth Estate» is not nearly as engaging as it should be, and that is because of the lack of character development.

That is essentially Buckley's purpose in Split, and it dilutes much of the film's suspense.

How much suspense can you wring out of one person manning the phones in a 911 - emergency station?

Deadpool has an accelerated healing capacity, so he can't die, no matter how much we might want him to, and so he can't be in peril, which eliminates all suspense.

Annihilation isn't always as consistently well - executed or involving as it might have been, and it's told in a manner that robs the story of some much needed life - or - death suspense, but overall it's a bold undertaking that doesn't play it safe and features some strong performances.

Even the entity itself, taking the form of everyday human beings going for a casual stroll, moves like a classic, Romero zombie but whose presence - or potential in its presence - loaded with as much suspense as watching the ocean waters in Jaws.

There is so much in this picture, from dread, horror, to suspense, bitterly moving love, extraordinary, Oscar - worthy art direction and a desperate lead performance from Viggo Mortensen which perfectly illustrates the wrenching desperation of parental love.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is written at a level so low, even 8 - year - olds will find it lacking, and because another sequel is already in pre-production, there's not much suspense as to how this one is going to end.

There's the requisite mission introduction, reacclimating people to the Syndicate, mentioned in the last film, but it fails to generate much suspense.

My goal is now to read the third book in the trilogy MOCKING JAY so as to help aleviate some of the suspense of what happens next to these characters I've invested so much time with both on screen and off.

And yet Andy spends so much of Cargo acting like he has all the time in the world, happily playing with his child and casually surveying his surroundings, that the suspense sometimes cools from a steady simmer to unremarkably lukewarm.

Despite Radcliffe's committed portrayal, the film becomes muddled in the second half, meandering into flashbacks and hallucinations that don't add much suspense.

As it closes in on an unavoidably bleak ending, Cargo fails to generate much suspense, choosing mood and ambiance over bullet - ridden shootouts and violent beheadings.

Her face, aged yet beaming youth, says so much in film's final five minutes that 45 Years practically transitions from drama to suspense.

The humor, drama and suspense leading up to Philippe's grand attempt feel much like waiting in a long line to ride the biggest roller coaster you can imagine.

The narrative is much easier to digest here than in live performance and the careful balance of camera, light, music, and close - up that cinema allows produces constant suspense and giddy excitement.

Much of the suspense hinges here, as in Hitchcock's The Lodger or Suspicion, on whether the hero is a killer and on whether the heroine is in danger because she is with him.

These things never spoil the suspense because they are usually over in a heartbeat, but this kind of attention to detail is much appreciated.

With so much of its would - be surprise elements given away in its trailer, and even in the film's poster, «The Hangover 2» has a tough time mustering up the gross - out comic suspense the filmmakers are after.

In response, Assayas creates suspense, not simply by having Maureen plagued by texts from an unknown source, but by blinding her to the possibility that the sender is very much alive and dangerous because she wants to believe that the messages come from beyond the grave.

As a director, I find much more interest in drama / suspense storylines than comedy.

This time around, I was very much intrigued before the Games, but rarely in much suspense.

If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, I would probably recommend staying away from it, as it can be a slow and gloomy film, without much in momentum or genuine suspense.

We are in no suspense about Rothstein's answer, of course: the poor, because they are poor, should not be expected to learn as much.

THERE»S NO PLACE LIKE HOME A bigger switch comes from New York Times best - selling author Connie Brockway, who offers her first contemporary with Hot Dish, a novel that turns out to be that rarest of breeds, a contemporary romance that isn't chick lit or divorce lit or even (much) of a romantic suspense, but a hot main dish for the savvy reader who knows pure romance can be a hearty meal in itself.

this would pretty much take away most of the suspense in the novel!

Since I enjoy romantic suspense novels so much, it's no surprise that I spend a great deal of time both reading and writing in the genre.

Grounded in well - rounded central characters, this compelling novel holds as much suspense as fuel for discussion.

And I hope comatose sister wakes up soon... I suppose I shouldn't complain much about suspense in that kind of story after I finish reading 20th Century Boys (Vol.20).

IRR Your work has garnered much praise for standing out in the crime and suspense genres.

Much of the suspense in Dino Crisis is provided via a roving camera that often catches the gamer off guard with crazy angles.

Very much a self - portrait of Western culture delivered through the envisioned landscapes of it's imagined destruction, McWreath's film perpetually wavers in a state between horror and beauty, science and fantasy, suspense and relief.