Sentences with phrase «rather in suspense»

II, p. 23, that «the present situation concerning the question of the Pentateuch... is rather in suspense.

Not exact matches

But when the only other horse in what could only loosely be described as a two - horse race doesn't feel the need to turn up — Cristiano Ronaldo had very important Copa del Rey practice — then it does rather undermine even the pretense of suspense.

It's more engrossing being involved in the suspense rather than guessing what crazy turn might come next, as she's learned from her previous series.

With so many teen thrillers taking the route of bad, sensationalist horror, it's nice to see a standard suspense vehicle come out once in a while, with better characterizations and fright earned through putting characters in potential jeopardy, rather than just cheap jump - scares and shrill music.

Basically, he'd rather shock you than keep you in suspense.

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

Rather than try to cheat his way out of this constrained premise, director Jaume Collet - Serra (who previously directed Neeson in the chase mystery Unknown) makes the most of it, using the absence of an exterior point of view to build suspense.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

Meanwhile, New Jersey Star - Ledger writer Vicki Hyman gave it an A -, saying,» [It] wastes little time in shedding blood (there is a rather graphic sequence in the pilot), but there's more suspense than outright scares.

He said something to the effect that what he wanted to do was slowly build the dread and the tension, rather than explode to 11 in the opening moments and fail to be able to register that kind of suspense for the rest of the film.

Twohy delivers everything we expect — attractive performers in paradise (Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich as cute urbanites fumbling through the jungle, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez as rather more prepared trail companions), breathtaking landscapes and lush scenery, ominous tensions and plenty of action — and something you likely did not: suspense, surprise and sheer fun.

Bogart's face actually isn't seen until the movie is half over (a fact that reportedly distressed studio head Jack Warner as he envisioned box office losses), but the picture never loses its edge, with Vincent's plight (his run - ins with various suspicious characters never hurt for suspense), Bacall's anchoring performance, and the San Francisco location shooting overcoming a rather slender mystery.

Rather than attempt to recreate the precarious mix of psychological tension and gore struck by Carpenter's version, The Thing favors the latter, maintaining a sideline interest in suspense but no real devotion to prolonging it.