Sentences with phrase «of suspense around»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

It may not have taken place around a roulette wheel, but there was a palpable air of suspense as the state Gaming Facility Location Board announced three of the nearly 20 communities hoping to get a piece of the gaming action on Wednesday.

All the suspense of waiting for the labor that I was sure would start that day did not make me the happiest nine - month pregnant woman with swollen fingers and fat feet, and needless to say, I was probably not the easiest cocktail of pregnancy hormones to be around either.

I also found a whole lot of joking around with not an iota of suspense, and a plot that made very little sense.

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).

Unfortunately, Kiss of Death was a critical and box - office failure, as were his successive suspense thrillers Jade, Cold Around the Heart, and Body Count.

Bad Samaritan (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief nudity) A suspense thriller revolving around a car valet moonlighting as burglar (Robert Sheehan) who breaks into the home of one of the restaurant's rich customers (David Tennant) only to find a kidnapped woman (Kerry Condon) tied up there.

This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.

Incorporating moments of both heart - pounding suspense and improbable beauty, the documentary draws viewers into the lives of three of its founders — Khaled, Subhi, and Mahmoud — as they grapple with the chaos around them and struggle with an ever - present dilemma: do they flee or stay and fight for their country.

The film has plenty of the usual hokey dialogue and characters (instead of a singing nun we now have a singing blind man who dies a few minutes after finally finding true love) but this time around not every passenger on board will make it out alive which does lead to some suspense.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

Suffice to say both Gilroy and Anderson know their way around this kind of material and ratchet up the action and suspense while keeping it so authentic it is hard to believe this isn't a true story to begin with.

Gillespie and Kostanski know their way around satirical genre material (check out Manborg, Father's Day, and The Editor) but this flick earns unexpected points for (mostly) eschewing the humor in favor of suspense, tension, dread, carnage, monsters, tentacles, and more carnage.

First Reformed (R for some disturbing violent images) Suspense thriller, set in upstate New York, revolving around a grieving pastor (Ethan Hawke) whose counseling the depressed husband (Philip Ettinger) of a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) fails in tragic fashion.

Breaking In (PG - 13 for violence, bloody images, menacing, sexual references and brief profanity) Suspense thriller revolving around a single - mom's (Gabrielle Union) efforts to rescue her kids (Ajiona Alexus and Seth Carr) being held hostage by a gang of burglars barricaded inside her recently - deceased father's Malibu mansion.

They Remain (Unrated) Suspense thriller revolving around a couple of romantically - linked scientists (William Jackson Harper and Rebecca Henderson) investigating the bizarre behavior of animals on the grounds of an abandoned compound where a cult once committed mass murder.

Instead of having things jump out at you from around every corner, the suspense is a slow build throughout the film.

There are no rushing sprints to the forest, no large area to run around, so the film is self - contained and capable of maintaining its suspense and action without waning.

«Life» is engaging because of its frightening lifeform is smarter than humans, combined with enough suspense to keep you around for the conclusion.

But all Katz does here is to set up a slow - speed suspense film around the elusive personality and talents of this Girl Friday.

In the early Nightmare on Elm Street installments, the fear built around avoiding Freddy's razor - glove added some of that said suspense to the chase sequences.

U-571 (PG - 13) Don't watch into Jonathan Mostow's WWII - set deep sea thriller expecting a deep story or comparable characters: the title is named for a German sub taken over by a Navy squad (led by a well - cast Matthew McConaughey), and that's all you need to know, for the star is the suspense Mostow generates through an ever - increasing series of calamities that occur in and around that claustrophobic setting.

He's threatening to blow up the suspense around the mysterious nature of the relationship between Skywalker and Daisy Ridley's Rey.

Unlocked (R for profanity and violence) Suspense thriller revolving around a CIA Agent (Noomi Rapace), lured to London, where she enlists the assistance of a former soldier (Orlando Bloom) to prevent an imminent biological attack.

That's around 235,000 words of romance, suspense, and adventure set in the world of the People.

The author is a Pulitzer Prize - winning Chicago Tribune journalist, and her book has received advanced praise from four of the best suspense novelists around: Dennis Lehane, Scott Turow, Laura Lippman and Tom Franklin.

It had just the right feel for the story and the suspense - thriller genre, with encroaching darkness around a bright sky - colored text, and the broken wing emblem of the airline in the book.

Carol Newsome writes the Lia Anderson Dog Park Mysteries, a series of fun, romantic suspense / mystery novels inspired by and centered around her mornings at the Mount Airy Dog Park.

Without a doubt, this is the summer of suspense — just look around the airport this summer, and I promise you'll see carry - ons brimming with hot new thrillers.

This time around I'm looking at a few more from the list of thriller or suspense writers.

This entry is part 14 of 26 in the series Tension, suspense and surpriseI have a guest post up at LDS Publisher today on setting up an author website — you might recognize it if you've been around here for a while.

The Venus Cure is a fast - paced, erotic, and lightly mystical, romantic suspense novella that centers around the serious issue of Venus Fly Trap poaching.

In traditional comic books, stories are built around the turn of the page, which allows creators to delay the delivery of punch lines or craft moments of surprise or suspense within their narratives.

It's this factor of suspense, of not knowing what's around the...

Bandai Namco and Tarsier Studios ««suspense - adventure» title centers around Six, whose yellow raincoat shines in contrast to the dark world of the vessel known as the Maw.

We want those experiences you saw in Alien and Aliens, where there is a lot of suspense — you're going down a hallway and it's dark or it's scary and you don't know what's going to be around the next corner — we want to have that in the game.

In his work, the noirish drama of Cubism and German Expressionism find their complement in techniques of cinematic suspense, with a femme fatale laying in bed, or a Joker - like figure overlooking a nocturnal Gotham, while modernist references play around them like a swelling visual soundtrack.

Approaching the sculpture is a bizarre experience: such heavy, daily machinery in a violent suspense of animation seems threatening, like holding your breath around a slumbering lion.