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"suspenseful" Definitions
  1. creating feelings of excitement or worry about what may happen

550 Sentences With "suspenseful"

How to use suspenseful in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "suspenseful" and check conjugation/comparative form for "suspenseful". Mastering all the usages of "suspenseful" from sentence examples published by news publications.

" He called it "sleek and spooky, seductive and suspenseful.
The foggy scenes are the most suspenseful in the movie.
The chases are suspenseful, and the violence is fairly restrained.
To be fair, the series is totally suspenseful and scary.
It's suspenseful and exciting in ways that plays rarely are.
His final outcomes, however, have become golf's most suspenseful drama.
That girl is Gemma, whose story is the more suspenseful.
They are very violent and very suspenseful and very addictive.
There's not much good behavior in this suspenseful drama series.
It's gripping in a way suspenseful spy dramas could never approach.
The suspenseful moments barely register, and the jokes are barely jokes.
We're supposed to find what they've done with this story suspenseful.
"The Silent Patient" by Alex Michaelides was also suspenseful and fun.
Mr. van Zweden drew a lush, suspenseful performance from the Philharmonic.
Lock Every Door is suspenseful with twists you won't see coming.
CHICAGO — It had all the elements of a suspenseful crime novel.
Among the many incredible things about David Fincher's true crime masterpiece — including how dated it doesn't feel a decade later — is how suspenseful and taut it manages to be despite how non-suspenseful its subject is.
ThreesPorn's suspenseful, GIF-filled thread is what kicked off the current conversation.
Asghar Farhadi's suspenseful drama The Salesman explores gender and domesticity in Iran.
The Padres had just one suspenseful out in the first seven innings.
I think our biggest challenge was how to make that still suspenseful.
Movies and TV specials about crime are suspenseful enough on their own.
The "Firebird" — now enthrallingly suspenseful storytelling — looked far better than when new.
The suspenseful sound effects from Law & Order echoed down through the floor.
The movie is "sleek and spooky, seductive and suspenseful," The Times's A .
We received another one last night with Netta's thrilling and suspenseful victory.
This GIF is the most suspenseful one you will watch all day.
After a suspenseful election night, he scraped along, barely clinging to power.
Part 1 is fast-moving and suspenseful, Part 2 languorous and luxuriant.
These are 15 of the best, most suspenseful minutes of Paltrow's career.
"A Ghost Story" is suspenseful, dourly funny and at times piercingly emotional.
"It's a beautifully-written suspenseful account of aging and regret," Shardlow said.
The heroism and villainy that play out thereafter is suspenseful, if predictable.
It's enthralling and curiously suspenseful to see what happens from moment to moment.
It's remarkably suspenseful, even though one already knows that everything will go fine.
His struggle to find meaning amid the rubble becomes a surprisingly suspenseful quest.
If you're into suspenseful, violent, over-the-top pimple popping videos — no shame.
When he catches a subway train, his kinesis assumes a more suspenseful character.
I was surprised at how suspenseful it was, even knowing what was coming.
"Injury points" would add an interesting and suspenseful element for fans to watch.
The final ingredient is a suspenseful score composed by pop musican Robin Coudert.
There's no suspenseful music here to remind you that this is a movie.
By that, I meant I wanted to create suspenseful, tension-filled set pieces.
The eastern half of the US will have a suspenseful start in 2020.
Gradually, though, some sort of meaning emerges — and the process is oddly suspenseful.
It is exceptionally suspenseful and entertaining, and meshes well with the Hulu series.
The suspenseful, sexy, cat-and-mouse game of Killing Eve returns for season 2.
PUBG is a game designed so that those suspenseful thrillers emerge from its rules.
Suspenseful for you, obviously, so choose that stress only if exclusion stress feels worse.
Transference's trailer is pretty vague but it definitely feels like its a suspenseful experience.
Stranger Things was the retro, suspenseful, terrifying summer binge we never knew we needed.
It's highly suspenseful, and expected early next year to PC, Mac, and PlayStation 4.
It's a suspenseful, sensual, exciting movie, and therefore a deeply haunting one as well.
"Wringer," Jerry Spinelli's award-winning 1997 children's novel, is suspenseful, poignant and sometimes disturbing.
" Our reviewer writes that the film "is bracing, witty and suspenseful, a feminist thriller.
Hopefully, audience members get a little more of that suspenseful nature in the dustup.
Critics weren't impressed by "Black and Blue," but audiences praised the film's suspenseful storyline.
What follows is suspenseful, then fantastical, then man versus nature, then almost science fiction.
Expressionist camerawork, foreboding music and sound design, and suspenseful pacing all distinguish the film.
"A suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair," Denise Mina said here.
And yet for a novel guided by delirium, "Lord" is remarkably suspenseful and assured.
Suspenseful and substantive, this eight-part series is essential knowledge for social justice seekers.
And, fittingly, it turned out to be the most suspenseful race of the season.
One of the ballets, "La Valse," fascinatingly shows Balanchine's gift for suspenseful noir drama.
Making a Murderer is back, and promises to be more suspenseful and controversial than ever.
Things aren't so suspenseful when the shadowy government official is the heroine's frequent dinner guest.
All it lacked was a suspenseful third-set tiebreaker, but Federer's serve unexpectedly deserted him.
Perfect for readers craving magical alternative histories, suspenseful plots, and girls who can save themselves.
But a world sporting scandal intervened, making Mr. Fogel's story more suspenseful and more disturbing.
Best of all, both of them kept everything suspenseful; the duet seemed far too short.
Suspenseful, violent and poetic, "No Country for Old Men" poses the question of morality itself.
This game, like most in the anticlimactic first round, was never as suspenseful as expected.
But it is also gripping, suspenseful and moving — a hard look at a hard subject.
His story line delivered some of the most intense, suspenseful scenes of the entire show.
Comcast has prevailed in a suspenseful settlement auction against 393st Century Fox for European Broadcaster Sky.
And you have to admit, Dance's voice makes everything sound ten times more dramatic and suspenseful.
Technology has afforded me an alternative way to watch suspenseful content in a more personalized way.
A suspenseful soundtrack emits from the video, along with a soft voice speaking in cadenced Mandarin.
It's supposed to be a little mysterious, a little sexy, a little suspenseful, and completely enthralling.
"Deepwater Horizon" is a swift and suspenseful action movie, full of noise, peril, muck and fire.
Gateway Movies The films of Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott are short but complex and suspenseful.
The suspenseful, layered music can sound like migration in motion or a wisp of twisting smoke.
In short, "Pick of the Litter" makes for unexpectedly suspenseful (and perhaps not entirely reputable) viewing.
Of the seven Belichick-Brady Super Bowls, this was perhaps the least suspenseful, but only slightly.
The cat-and-mouse scenes of Chigurh tracking Moss across south Texas are almost unbearably suspenseful.
In Moore's suspenseful new novel, two sisters in Philadelphia are driven apart by the opioid crisis.
The Georgian filmmaker Gela Babluani makes his directorial debut with this suspenseful black-and-white thriller.
Spectators gathered to watch the nail-biter on a screen just outside the stadium in suspenseful silence.
Cue the suspenseful music, because the Night King and his White Walker army have officially invaded Westeros.
It creates suspenseful, intense, and mystical world that people think looks so real but never will be.
"The most suspenseful part of the #Bachelor is waiting to see the sloth's face!" another user wrote.
This time, however, her interpretation had urgency, and the naturally heroic scale of her dancing became suspenseful.
Susan Sheehan is unsentimental but empathetic and this is an incredibly suspenseful book about one woman's life.
The Miracle happens about halfway through "Sully," and it is as suspenseful as it is spoiler proof.
These three expert musicians all boast a lightness of touch and a keen sense of suspenseful development.
In Gabriel's final moment of the episode, however, the writers finagle an ending with genuinely suspenseful heft.
His rare compliments are preceded by suspenseful, inscrutable glares, and his highest praise is a silent handshake.
But for a story so dependent on facts, chronology and pacing, this subjectivity is frustrating, not suspenseful.
He has a gift for narrative, for making a song feel like a procession of suspenseful events.
The suspenseful clips show emotions running high between Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon!) and Mia Warren (Kerry Washington
It's a joy to encounter a suspenseful book whose turns lurk, rather than lumber, around the corner.
This week New York City Ballet revives his "La Sonnambula," the most suspenseful of all his narratives.
The imaginative inventions, gorgeously colorful artwork, and mix of laser fights and suspenseful drama will transport you.
Jacob Ashworth, Cantata Profana's artistic director, conducted a suspenseful account of this radically episodic and spacey score.
This lent a suspenseful quality to the evening, as fly balls went up and up and then disappeared.
The new Netflix show 13 Reasons Why is a lot of things — confusing, suspenseful, engaging, and well-produced.
The entire micro-adventure was caught on a security camera, and the footage is more sweet than suspenseful.
Eurovision's byzantine voting rules have evolved as organizers have tried to make voting more fair and more suspenseful.
It aired in 2007 and lasted for just one season, which critics called "flat" and not suspenseful enough. 
In doing so, it finds the soaring, suspenseful music in even the most basic banalities of the everyday.
There's a suspenseful turn, and a surprise ending when he wakes and realizes it was all a dream.
Utterly suspenseful and deeply scary, it's perhaps the best film study in paranoia since Requiem for a Dream.
Yet while there's plenty of action, and much of it suspenseful, this is not a straightforward crime caper.
Its latest campaign, "It could happen today," uses suspenseful music and darkened scenes of California waking to uncertainty.
"The genre has diverged into two paths: the brutally gruesome and suspenseful," wrote Perri Nemiroff for Cinema Blend.
It's about the slow and suspenseful denouement of our expectations — the journey, as it were, not the destination.
Much of his work is by turns suspenseful, sensual and comedic, with obsession and passion serving as recurring themes.
It's a suspenseful whodunit that keeps you guessing, but it's also a beautifully rendered depiction of a grieving community.
In mid-May, it was announced that Shonda Rhimes' hit political drama would be ending after seven suspenseful seasons.
The result is a ride with suspenseful cuts as the cart maneuvers through a hall of props and vignettes.
In fact, The Washington Post published a flashy profile about the suspenseful final moments before McCain gave his vote.
The twins from The Shining, the suspenseful music in Jaws — these are the things that would scare most people.
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She grows more unbalanced as the pregnancy progresses, but none of it is suspenseful because it's all so familiar.
Earlier, a superbly suspenseful duet for Ms. Jones and Mr. Lozano shows amazing variety of vocabulary and spatial focus.
Indeed, a Twitter whistle has replaced suspenseful music to put the entire city on the edge of their seats.
The hunt for the murderer merges with Dr. Kosarek's experiments on the Devil's Six, creating a suspenseful psychological mystery.
The Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi won his second Oscar for this suspenseful drama about a married couple in Tehran.
The episodes are a slide show of sleek interiors and tastefully shadowed bars, the pacing logy without being suspenseful.
Decades on, thanks to the committed skill of these Dance Project performers, the choreography's actions stay cool, intense, suspenseful.
This absorbing, suspenseful début tracks familial obligation and the legacy of trauma in a Korean family living outside Boston.
We're so absorbed in this woman's state of mind that the simple dressing of a turkey becomes Hitchcock-suspenseful.
The organization acquired "Master Race" for its historical significance and for Krigstein's critically acclaimed presentation of the suspenseful story.
The mystery plot is genuinely spooky and suspenseful, when it could have very easily been played as a goof.
Between the suspenseful chapters of Snowman's journey, Atwood fills us in on his — and the world's — more vibrant past.
Lesley Rausch (replacing Laura Tisserand) was wry, hard, unpredictable as the Siren: lacking the role's cold sexiness, but always suspenseful.
Her dad literally winds floss around both her tooth and a power drill, providing a suspenseful yet effective tooth-pulling.
SpaceX has pulled off some exhilarating launches and landings in the past, but today's mission ranks among its most suspenseful.
It's a tight, at times unbearably suspenseful thriller, with some of the most terrifying set pieces in recent horror memory.
In the end, with the challenge unfulfilled, the video amounts to little more than a suspenseful exercise in class tourism.
They are funny, suspenseful and punctuated by kinetic sequences that can make even jaded multiplex-potatoes sit up and gasp.
It's a colorful, surrealist dream that can go from tearfully hilarious to unbearably suspenseful from one scene to the next.
But in its brevity and seeming innocuousness, it cuts that much deeper, as echoed by the crowd's suspenseful collective gasp.
It's made this an incredibly suspenseful series that really never lets up, even when things are going the kids' way.
Thu and Nhu may not have ended up together, but that scene has redefined my definition of suspenseful reality television.
In the sketch's redone and significantly expanded Fresh Prince opening credits, Chris Redd-as-Will Smith weaves a suspenseful tale.
Fans of movies from Sergio Leone and the "Spaghetti Western" genre will perk up at every suspenseful chase or gunfight.
After a suspenseful respite, she was relieved to see her mother scamper across the finish line, barely out of breath.
The deal to delay moving forward with Kavanaugh's confirmation vote capped off a dramatic and suspenseful day on Capitol Hill.
The principle at work here, as elsewhere in "Custody," is that a situation need not be exciting to be suspenseful.
"The President" grows more suspenseful when the principals mingle with former political prisoners, witnessing the consequences of the despot's rule.
"Equity" itself, however, is bracing, witty and suspenseful, a feminist thriller sharply attuned to the nuances of its chosen milieu.
My memory from a number of 1981 performances is that this section once seemed more dense, more suspenseful, less charming.
Looking back, watching something that makes the world around me irrelevant because the plot is so suspenseful could have helped.
It's a suspenseful moment — my body tensed as my suspicions played out, in both the aunt's request and Regina's answer.
And Molloy repeatedly generates suspense by depriving the reader of information (as opposed to, say, having actually suspenseful stuff happen).
Cowboy Bebop offers gorgeous noir-ish illustration, stylish fashion, thrilling action and suspenseful romance, all set to hip jazz soundtrack.
Curtis's ninth novel is among his most suspenseful, an adventure story about a white sharecropper's son in antebellum South Carolina.
The work's "story" — a tale of unrequited love and a hellish opium trip — is evocative, suspenseful and at times horrifying.
You'll see this is a fallacy if you pay attention to how many suspenseful novels are written in past tense.
Kulani said she optimized her ad revenue by sometimes placing an ad break before something suspenseful is about to happen.
It pays off in suspenseful bouts that haven't been hyperedited into incoherence, with actresses who really appear to be grappling.
"Life" rather economically mashes up the two, producing a taut, suspenseful thriller that's more enjoyable the less you think about it.
Between suspenseful pregnancy rumors and hot product launches, the Kardashians have us all wrapped around their fingers now more than ever.
For better or worse, that intensely suspenseful two-man show will be kept off that particular racetrack for the time being.
But I just found that so scary and so suspenseful, just reading and reading and dreading what was going to happen.
It's boring, because nothing happens, but also suspenseful, because how much of her butt will you see in the next frame?
But the question kept nagging at me as the suspenseful but altogether less urgent events of the second season ticked by.
"Girl" books seem destined to be big this summer, with several juicy and suspenseful novels arriving during the next few months.
But in this case, the Möbius strip approach worked, imbuing an already suspenseful and sad moment with deep poignancy and meaning.
It is a suspenseful Orwellian love story that could have used more breathing room to grow into a full-blown novel.
The third book also starts on that day, but navigates its suspenseful way toward the present to a terrifyingly resonant end.
She also said she optimized her ad revenue by sometimes placing an ad break before something suspenseful is about to happen.
"Graduation" is long and intense, a rigorously naturalistic film that at times feels as claustrophobic and suspenseful as a horror movie.
Two teenagers, Citra and Rowan, begin their training as apprentice Scythes in this tightly written and suspenseful first of the series.
The director, Diederik Van Rooijen, establishes a tense mood by alternating between ear-shattering demonism and extended periods of suspenseful silence.
The depth and breadth of the intimate interviews alone paint a vivid picture and create a compelling narrative that's suspenseful in itself.
The signature razor-sharp teeth, suspenseful music and murky underwater shots of one of the ocean's mightiest predators quickly approaching its prey.
"Sons of Anarchy" is a show that, like "Breaking Bad," tells a complex and suspenseful tale that centers around family and lawlessness.
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The Accountant starts with a burden to prove: that the life of a tax professional can make for a sexy, suspenseful premise.
During a suspenseful rose ceremony, Thu realizes that she will not be getting a rose and will soon be leaving the show.
You can't entirely blame Trump or Republicans for that "showboat" accusation after reading the taut, suspenseful opening statement Comey prepared for today.
Leave it to The Bachelorette to indicate the villain's first official emergence (or, in this case, slither) with suspenseful, antagonistic music chords.
Mr. Kotche drew evocative sounds from an array of instruments and provided suspenseful rhythms that lent tension to the film's historic arc.
By the time "Maestra" reaches its suspenseful conclusion — three little words, "to be continued" — she seems to be running out of positions.
Our critic calls "Eye in the Sky" a riveting thriller — and often a grim, suspenseful farce — about drone warfare and its perils.
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The plot was suspenseful but what I liked best was the sardonic first-person narration by its hero, First Officer John Carter.
Borrowing heavily from the novelist's toolbox — a fictional narrator, suspenseful scenes — Kerry Howley's "Thrown" tells true, brutal stories about mixed martial arts.
Arsenault never pushes the supernatural angle too hard, letting Marnie, and the reader, skate on the suspenseful edge of skepticism and belief.
Her hectic and suspenseful voyage, given desperate intensity by the actress Maggie Q, makes for the show's most eye-popping episode yet.
It's been out for less than two years and is already on its way to being a classic of darkly suspenseful horror.
These letters are often anthologized, and rightly so: They're vivid, suspenseful and filled with poignant detail about the suffering of the survivors.
The audience needs to be, by turns, reassured and surprised, guided through startling and suspenseful events toward a never-in-doubt conclusion.
The faces are dizzying on the walls, and such constancy of thought in the one room makes the atmosphere charged and suspenseful.
A cabal of KGB and Red Army leaders actually overthrew Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for two suspenseful days in August of that year.
I loved it because it kept me riveted from page 1, and it was a very quick and yet suspenseful and emotional read.
"We would have to laugh all the time because it's so heavy," Blunt tells PEOPLE Now of filming the dark and suspenseful thriller.
BRITAIN'S general election is just four weeks away, and the campaign is proving to be one of the least suspenseful in modern memory.
But Close Encounters never reveals the menace that hovers over everything—remember, this is a suspenseful movie about a dude losing his mind.
Some elements feel pretty cartoonish — look out for the cardboard cut-out multinational thugs — which sit at odds with the creepy, suspenseful thrills.
The wait for news of the attempted landing today was particularly suspenseful due to the rough waters off the coast of southern California.
The most suspenseful and unpredictable part of the film is seeing what glorious costume your favorite actress will turn up in in next.
What began as a suspenseful story of a disappearance suddenly becomes a quiet study of a family, at a very quotidian level, mostly.
"Cinderella III: A Twist in Time" (2007) is a suspenseful film that shows what might've happened if the princess's glass slipper didn't fit.
His struggle to find his way in this mental labyrinth is all the plot Evenson needs to spin a suspenseful, darkly comic tale.
Red Bulls 20, N.Y.C.F.C. 1 HARRISON, N.J. — The match was decided quickly, another one-sided derby with more yellow cards than suspenseful moments.
"Part 1 is fast-moving and suspenseful, Part 2 languorous and luxuriant," A. O. Scott wrote in his Times review in August 2017.
For me, the miracle of "The Ferryman" isn't just its ability to make all those many component parts work in such suspenseful synchronicity.
Where would the fractured, suspenseful phrasing structure that makes up so much of what is now considered "epic" music be without Richard Wagner?
Many directors have made scarier and more suspenseful films than Mr. Argento has, but few have ever made buckets of blood look lovelier.
In this suspenseful tale, animal and human behavior begin to meld, even reverse, and who's dangerous and who's endangered is not always clear.
High in erudition and packed with mystery, it is a romance that takes your heart and mind on a suspenseful and rigorous adventure.
Still, one episode's A-plot is devoted to the wildly suspenseful question of whether or not new mom Jane will ever shower again.
Streaming Movie Review Even with Netflix's backing and a supposedly suspenseful premise, his latest movie is, once again, about a sad, downtrodden woman.
In this suspenseful tale animal and human behavior begin to meld, even reverse, and who's dangerous and who's endangered is not always clear.
"There is now no clear front-runner for best picture, making it an enormously suspenseful Oscar race," Tom O'Neil, founder of awards website GoldDerby.
"It's a joy to encounter a suspenseful book whose turns lurk, rather than lumber, around the corner," Sarah Lyall writers in her thrillers roundup.
The 42-tweet thread, shared on Twitter, is chilling and suspenseful — a modern day ghost story ladled out piece by piece on social media.
The former vice president's team has been laying the campaign groundwork for months, with Biden's decision growing less secretive or suspenseful by the day.
Instead, Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite", a suspenseful, wickedly funny satire about class struggles has sparked buzz of awards glory for the South Korean director.
Regardless, this sci-fi thriller was a hit with critics who lauded the intelligent script, interesting plot twists, and suspenseful scenes in this movie. 
The packed-with-incident screenplay, by Mr. Carion and Laure Irrmann, includes several suspenseful scenes that Mr. Carion pulls off effectively with his direction.
You've lost 80% of your audience just saying these two words,' and then quickly get them back by telling them exciting, suspenseful personal stories.
Ferguson's narrative is so dense and complicated, and at the same time so dramatic, suspenseful and clear, that it absorbs all of your attention.
Yet the final act, a "Purge"-like blood bath to the tune of vengeance, is aesthetically arresting, including a masterfully suspenseful home invasion sequence.
Stephanie Amurao and Robbie Moore make the "Springweather" duet suspenseful (I love the jumps he does for her while she looks up and away).
It is suspenseful to me because each hour you see more of him, you get under his skin, I think you feel him better.
These opening scenes of the pilot (three of the first season's 10 episodes were available for review) are promising — crisply paced, suspenseful and clever.
It was a boring, lame, non-suspenseful, never-ending, drool-puddle exercise in all that can suck about professional football and the surrounding hoopla.
This suspenseful drama follows the family members as their plan to make a final escape from Europe derails, forcing them to return to Germany.
After a slow start focused on establishing unnecessary back stories, the show shifts into a series of satisfying and suspenseful "Roadrunner"-like chases and escapes.
It's entertaining and reasonably suspenseful, but other than perhaps Adams, a long shot for awards consideration, while not exciting enough for those seeking blockbuster escapism.
Naeher had one of the most suspenseful moments of the World Cup, when she saved a penalty kick during the semi-finals match against England.
It keeps viewers (and readers) interested with compelling characters and deep, involved plots that make for can't-put-it-down books and suspenseful shows alike.
IN "EILEEN", Ottessa Moshfegh's dark and suspenseful first novel, the heroine reflected on how her 24-year-old self was coaxed into committing foul deeds.
But one thing doesn't change: The show is terrific – not just suspenseful, but very smart about connecting the Jenningses to the culture of the times.
Well, fans of Walt and Jesse's emotional, suspenseful, and sometimes extremely disturbing story are going to want to take a trip to Brooklyn very soon.
Director Ron Howard has paced the movie like one extended chase, but despite plentiful action, it's generally about as suspenseful as an art-history lesson.
In the suspenseful clip, leading lady Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) closes her bedroom door behind her and stares at the jewelry box on her desk.
It's a concept that could be sort of naff in the wrong hands, but in King's hands it's a suspenseful and lightning-fast page-turner.
"And the winner is…" A saxophone jiggles out a suspenseful trill before a glitter cannon spurts a jet of golden foil pieces over the audience.
The opening of the Kyrie was fleet and suspenseful, with the conductor Louis Langrée drawing contained urgency from the festival orchestra and the Master Chorale.
You'll recall that a suspenseful eeny-meeny routine preceded the execution, which was shown from the victim's perspective as VFX blood "dripped" down the screen.
"Scherzo Fantastique," his first piece to Stravinsky, is suspenseful and ebullient, with costumes and décor whose vivid colors and imagination make an immediately potent impression.
It builds momentum even as the first few episodes may seem to meander, and it comes together in a suspenseful thriller with an emotional punch.
For an already anachronistic sporting event that thrives on its fleeting thrills, this was an unbearably suspenseful, full-on bizarre way to declare a winner.
What's remarkable is that Flanagan, thanks largely to stellar performances from the ensemble, manages to make all this sibling drama feel suspenseful rather than wearying.
But none of that really affects the utter joy contained in this book, which is a suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair.
The Fantasia II in C (Book Six) has the impish playfulness of a Haydn finale, complete with a penchant for sudden stops and suspenseful pauses.
Avoiding flabby subplots, Mr. Dholakia keeps "Raees" taut and suspenseful, even at two and a half hours, though it probably has a song too many.
Ms. Saariaho establishes the story's mystical mood at the start with suspenseful orchestral murmurings, over which rising pitches stack up to form piercing, sustained chords.
As the music subsides into searching, suspenseful quiet — the escaped political prisoner Angelotti is fumbling in a shadowy church — de Sabata draws out mournful undercurrents.
Ultimately, what engages us in "The Lightkeepers," beyond its energetic plot, is the sense of watching its author discover her ability to construct a suspenseful narrative.
The "Epic Night Utah State" Snapchat Story began with a girl spoiling movies and developed into a suspenseful love story between two students, Trevor and Madison.
Deutschland is suspenseful, as you'd expect of a spy drama, and it has a great soundtrack, as you'd expect from a show set in the '80s.
Whether you want to keep your movie night suspenseful, action-packed, or lighthearted, you'll be able to find an entertaining title to rent on Prime Video.
And on top of all that, Underground Airlines tells a tremendously personal and suspenseful story, about a black investigator whose job is chasing down escaped slaves.
"What I love about episode 3 is it really delivers on the promise of this episode being a suspenseful thriller," the TV writer told the outlet.
A meticulously reported story set in a declining rural Virginia county, Monica Hesse's true crime is incendiary both in its subject matter and its suspenseful telling.
I'd say Searching and Unfriended are the best of the bunch; both are genuinely suspenseful and speak to how we compartmentalize aspects of our lives online.
The accusations upended his campaign, turning a race many believed he would win rather easily into a somewhat suspenseful battle with the Democratic nominee, Doug Jones.
"What Comes After" picked up right after with an emotionally charged, suspenseful scene of Rick digging deep and freeing himself just in time to get away.
This series will cross the genres of suspenseful thriller, horror, and drama with deeply developed characters the likes of which are not often seen in animation.
Watching MegaBots' Mk. III mechanical suit wind up for a punch at the Bay Area Maker Faire is the most suspenseful seven minutes you'll spend today.
When Orpheus cast his fatal glance back at Eurydice, there was an audible gasp from the audience, even though no dramatic situation could be less suspenseful.
A noise of primal desperation emanates from each of the two suspenseful dramas that have been resonantly paired in repertory by Theater for a New Audience.
The plot to the 2015 German film "Phoenix" sounds far-fetched, but the movie itself is suspenseful, sad and — if you get on its wavelength — unforgettable.
"Half the Battle," featuring Mr. Rosenwinkel, is a shadow-realm prowl suspenseful in its harmonic irresolution, an excellent disquisition on the dark grandeur of the unknown.
Colonialism, war, animal rights, and feminism are wrapped up in a suspenseful moment the Argentina-born, London-based artist captures in smooth, white, marble dust resin.
Thanks to the conductor Ryan Brown and the four singers, the recitatives between the set pieces stayed suspenseful; the act took us through quite a spectrum.
Amid the storm of anti-vaccine activism within the United States, this suspenseful drama delves into the debate of whether personal beliefs should overrule social welfare.
The moment captures everything that's right and wrong with "First They Killed My Father": It is gorgeous and suspenseful, and it rushes heedlessly into dangerous terrain.
He decided he wanted to know not so much whether Marco lied (though he turns the question into a fascinating and suspenseful historical whodunit) but why.
It's a new film from The Host and Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-Ho, and it looks both like a dry comedy and a dark, suspenseful thriller.
Parts of it work, but the overall package is never really suspenseful enough to have you on edge or overtly funny enough to be a lark.
Ivan Goff plays the uilleann pipes and Anna Wray a range of strident percussion instruments, and the haunting noises they conjure are both lyrical and suspenseful.
After 10 minutes of suspenseful, gasp-punctuated bidding at Sotheby's, "Untitled" was won by the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the online fashion retailer Zozotown.
What's suspenseful is how Smith got caught, and what's mysterious is why he did it — and how his fiancée, Tonya Bundick, figured into this unsavory bacchanal.
But there is also a larger political purpose to his creating such a spectacle out of what is an important but, ultimately, not terribly suspenseful announcement.
It's tricky, but in the hands of a thoughtful screenwriter and director, an adaptation of this novel could be a brutal, suspenseful, thrilling anti-fascist takedown.
The first official trailer for the highly anticipated film The Girl on the Train has arrived – and it's just as gripping and suspenseful as one would expect.
It was tense and suspenseful, often punctuated with bad acting and a very forced sex scene early on (Proma's first authentic yell of fright during this viewing).
Netflix is no stranger to either suspenseful crime thrillers or edgy teen dramas and its new show "Quicksand" seems to be the latest in combining those genres.
Emails obtained by BuzzFeed News also show that twelve videos from the channel — videos that included "suspenseful" scenarios — were manually deemed "suitable for all advertisers" in November.
The game took place at Fenway Park and was quite suspenseful until the seventh inning, when Eduardo Nuñez hit a three-run home run, according to SBNation.com.
The storytelling is suspenseful and cinematic; the characters complex and layered, with plot twists and turns that will keep viewers guessing throughout each of the eight episodes.
But the lack of resolution or ability to identify who beyond Plum is worth rooting for in the show makes the finale seem more unfinished than suspenseful.
The attempted landing should be a bit more suspenseful, though — landing at sea means we're not likely to see the same excellent live footage this time around.
Beginning in 2011, the suspenseful series aired on Spain's Antenna 3 for three seasons and since then, dubbed versions have been shown everywhere from Turkey to Estonia.
She fills her music to the brim: She doesn't hang on beats or counts; she floods her every phrase with singing legato, rhythmic brio and suspenseful variety.
This brief lull gives scientists and engineers time to catch their breath after Juno's suspenseful but flawless arrival and before work begins to peer deep inside Jupiter.
If only she can reconceive Odette's story in "Swan Lake" as a suspenseful dance narrative, she may yet make a breakthrough in this, her most prestigious role.
"Counterpart," created by Justin Marks (writer of the 2016 "Jungle Book" remake), is a clever and suspenseful if somewhat familiar mix of futuristic speculation and retro atmosphere.
After intermission Ms. Alsop and her players turned to Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D. At times during the subdued, suspenseful opening there were some shaky entrances.
The lame duck session includes suspenseful deadlines and must-pass legislation, plus an ample menu of political dramas, including leadership elections and disagreements over funding (The Hill).
"Knives Out" currently holds a 96% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with many praising the films' suspenseful storytelling, stellar ensemble and use of old murder-mystery tropes.
Silva's suspenseful thriller follows an international agent, a shady businessman and a former British model as they hunt down a villainous terrorist in the South of France.
The story of its invention, distribution and updating is an amusing, invigorating, poignant and suspenseful story of an astonishing social network, and warrants a movie in itself.
What he's good at is what might be called deal theater — made-for-TV melodramas with self-generated crises, over-the-top demands, and suspenseful arbitrary deadlines.
Seeing developments in scene, such as spies or an ominous presence approaching, before characters hear or smell any sort of shift, is suspenseful on a whole new level.
But their match in the Brisbane final was much less suspenseful, as Azarenka broke open a tight first set and went on to win, 6-3, 6-1.
The episode also shows off Archer's animation chops with a mix of silly sight gags and sequences meant to evoke Ridley Scott's alternately suspenseful and grotesque space horror.
Manhattan Beach is an impeccably researched depiction of life in New York City during World War II, filled with memorable characters, suspenseful diving expeditions, and ill-fated romances.
Dead Orbit's tone is different from Stokoe's past work, veering away from bombastic action to tell a suspenseful horror story in the vein of the first Alien movie.
Honestly, in a half of a minute Jay-Z and Bey have managed to produce a more entertaining and suspenseful clip than any gangster film on the market.
Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) first encounter with a "walker" — stumbling through an empty hospital months after zombies made it to Atlanta — is one of TV's most suspenseful sequences.
The music, by John King and others, colors the choreography with suspenseful drama and does its own sampling of the past, crossfading into more up-to-date beats.
San Diego-born, Oakland-based producer producer, Damon Bell, has shared a playfully suspenseful new track off his forthcoming Ankh Boogie EP for UK imprint Don't Be Afraid.
If the Reply All producers turned to this subreddit, it may have been able to help them—although, of course, the episode would not have been so suspenseful.
Bonus for the educationally minded: Jane pulls off the unusual feat of being both suspenseful and informative, gracefully incorporating technical details about the boat into high-drama scenes.
"With exquisite patience and attention to detail," he wrote, Farhadi "builds a solid and suspenseful plot out of ordinary incidents, and packs it with rich and resonant ideas."
But judging it on its own merits, it's an often funny, genuinely moving story that takes enough twists along the way that the quest becomes a suspenseful journey.
The suspenseful murder mystery races through the European countryside in full period splendor of the 1930s, and also features Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave and Jacqueline Bisset.
Sepetys is an absolute master of suspenseful historical fiction that plunges you into dangerous political moments, showing the life-or-death stakes for characters who seem achingly real.
It's difficult to fathom, for example, "North by Northwest" without Herrmann's propulsive and suspenseful soundtrack (the "Overture" alone seems to prefigure John Adams at his most high-spirited).
He does as much quoting as Quentin Tarantino and can take big, polemical ideas and do so many funny and suspenseful and strange and audacious things with them.
Nguyen's debut is at once a suspenseful page-turner, a shrewd critique of startup culture, and a poignant examination of the interplay between humanity and high tech. —A.
Hurricane Elena, in 1985, made one of the more suspenseful loops on record: It neared Florida's west coast but then turned around and made landfall in southern Mississippi.
With just months to go before what looks set to be a suspenseful general election, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems keen on stamping its brand on other things.
The Demogorgon is at the heart of Stranger Things' most suspenseful scenes, but it's also a senseless beast that shows no particular ill will toward any of the characters.
It makes for suspenseful and moving TV, and Wesley seems to find the conversation rewarding, but we argued about whether the sequence felt more contrived and exploitative than helpful.
David Clennon played the ceiling-sticking Palmer -- who gets detected in the suspenseful blood testing scene with Kurt Russell as MacReady -- in John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic 'The Thing.
Jackson's movies dumbed it down to the level of a loud, suspenseful roller coaster, when it should have stood as a contemplation of humanity and a reinvigoration of imagination.
This is the same way the son of the Kims becomes a tutor for the daughter of the Parks, which kicks off events in the suspenseful home invasion plot.
"They will see beautiful nature, a world past, with touching relationships between the characters in a suspenseful adventure story," Dafoe added about what viewers can expect from the film.
For example, people now use the tweetstorm to tell personal stories – even suspenseful or funny ones – connect facts surrounding breaking news, rant about politics or other issues, and more.
Industry experts are already noting significant new demand for female-hosted podcasts, as well as audio dramas that appeal to young people looking for a fast-paced, suspenseful story.
Mass Effect attempted to do all three simultaneously, weaving its various components together with a rich and suspenseful story about an imminent assault on all life in the universe.
October is nearly here, so it's time to think about Halloween, and streaming services are doing their best to offer up a selection of the spooky, supernatural, and suspenseful.
Nolan has delivered a visceral, suspenseful, at times jaw-dropping historical war movie, the lone disclaimer being that he sacrifices character development in his steadfast focus on technical virtuosity.
Iran's suspenseful political drama had much of the world cheering the reformists, who always seemed to be on the brink of bringing positive change, but never quite achieved it.
Browder, who is fifty-four, with a dusting of silver hair and rimless eyeglasses, has a forceful yet understated authority and a talent for telling a coolly suspenseful tale.
In the movie's most suspenseful sequence, the countdown to blastoff (a convention Lang invented) gives way to agonizing pressure on the space travelers, followed by the requisite weightless scene.
Even as Hu's suspenseful, surprising story draws the characters toward one another, his somber, careful compositions emphasize their isolation and the social conditions that make solitude a protective strategy.
" Last year, Alastair Macaulay wrote in The New York Times that her interpretation of Odette-Odile "had urgency," and that "the naturally heroic scale of her dancing became suspenseful.
For the uninitiated ... 50 Cent's show is in the middle of an incredibly suspenseful season 6 with fans champing at the bit trying to figure out who shot Ghost.
This modern classic delivers a suspenseful story of a boy who is stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash, surviving with nothing but a hatchet and his ingenuity.
The film, directed by Gregg Bishop and released by the Chiller Films horror factory, has a few good special effects, but it's too noisy and scattershot to be suspenseful.
In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film is "a modest and effectively executed urban thriller, suspenseful and entertaining in its clammy, overwrought way."
Cursed Child goes out of its way to differentiate itself: The music, by Imogen Heap(!), is ominous and suspenseful, but it's not the John Williams theme you're so used to.
Here, I present you with one of the most epic badminton rallies you will ever see, complete with a suspenseful soundtrack, in case you thought badminton was boring or something.
A group of people laughing together simultaneously triggers a feeling that you should laugh, too; during a suspenseful moment, you can feel dozens of strangers suck in their breath together.
Ahead of the North Korea meeting, the president has been almost singularly focused on the pageantry of the summit —including the suspenseful roll-out of details, senior administration officials said.
A fascinating series that put a lot of emphasis on the psychology of individual soldiers, the Close Combat games were always among the most suspenseful and dramatic wargames ever made.
No mouse pops up in this story: None among the trio of shady ladies who figure in Victor L. Cahn's quasi-suspenseful diversion could ever be confused with timid prey.
The run-up to Near To The Wild Heart of Life has been suspenseful and agonizing and then hugely, brilliantly fun with a title track that sounded finished and ready.
Just over three minutes after it blasted off, the most suspenseful part of the flight was over, as the boosters dropped off and the second stage continued into Earth orbit.
Those recollections, and images of Eichmann supervising the mass slaughter of innocents, serve as cautionary ballast, inoculating the audience against being too caught up in a suspenseful, entertaining wartime thriller.
In this video of Yuja Wang playing the concerto with Paavo Järvi and the Berlin Philharmonic, you can hear the cadenza at its best: artfully pyrotechnic, suspenseful and awe-inspiring.
"Fences" reminded me of my childhood growing up in Pittsburgh; "Munich" educated me while being entertaining and suspenseful in a way that only Steven Spielberg or Hitchcock could pull off.
Mr. Bong wove suspenseful tales involving people whom South Koreans could easily recognize: cynical local cops and ordinary people swept up in ​impossible situations while the state offered little help.
Napolitano's dual-timeline structure turns "Dear Edward" into a suspenseful page-turner with sprinkles of mystery, satisfying our rubbernecking urge to see the unfolding of a disaster and its aftermath.
Written by the managing editor of Art in America , this suspenseful novel sets the intrigue of pulp fiction against the decadence of New York's downtown art scene in the nineties.
Turnout in states that allow early voting was high, and in interviews, many voters said they were eager to bring an end to this unusual, exhausting and still suspenseful election.
ACO's art is reminiscent of his run on Midnighter, in that he takes a sledgehammer to time and space and builds up suspenseful pockets of action in jagged, thrilling pieces.
Pleasure-seeking behavior — like indulging suspenseful works of fiction — can be an advantageous adaptation, so long as it's not regularly abused (One 2017 study found it could lead to sleep-deprivation).
All I need is an inkling that I might be in for a few cheap jump scares or some creepily suspenseful scenarios in order for me to commit to seeing it.
The bad hombre I know is turning our democracy into a reality TV show and Election Night into a Bachelor-esque finale, complete with suspenseful, "will he accept the results?" moment.
It showed that the high stakes of a wrongful conviction can be applied to ridiculous premise, like asking who drew those dicks, given the right amount of atmosphere and suspenseful editing.
The Girl on the Train is shaping up to be 2016's equivalent to Gone Girl: a dark and suspenseful thriller that's beautifully shot and adapted from a huge hit novel.
The 1981 film is a creation of two movie legends, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who used some pretty creative techniques to capture the suspenseful boulder scene you see on screen.
Channel Zero more than pays off that investment: It's a horror story that feels fresh, well-paced, and suspenseful, with enough intrigue and bloodshed to hook fans and keep them hooked.
Though the novel is pockmarked with overly portentous teasers of the action to come, it is also genuinely suspenseful, its plot catapulting dangerously toward a fateful confrontation between Drax and Sumner.
While critics have often compared the book to Lewis Carroll, Mr. Gaiman's universe is arguably closer to David Lynch or Stephen King in its atmosphere of suspenseful, what-lies-beneath horror.
With exquisite patience and attention to detail, Asghar Farhadi, the writer and director, builds a solid and suspenseful plot out of ordinary incidents, and packs it with rich and resonant ideas.
In the vein of Liane Moriarty's novels, Her One Mistake is a supremely suspenseful take on the dynamics of female friendships, marriage, and parenthood, in which nothing is as it seems.
Sometimes a recurrent step makes us hear pattern in the music, as when a quick lift of the foot to the opposite knee matches a suspenseful phrase-ending in the score.
"Basketball," at an hour long, was remarkably suspenseful: These women have the rare ability to make you wonder, moment by moment, "What will happen next?" even when they hold long stillnesses.
The Rose Ceremony, as this suspenseful break-up process is called, is a weekly reminder that dating on The Bachelor is warped, like if The Hunger Games ended with heartbreak, not death.
The two women reflected on last week's turbulent series of events and their votes that ultimately led to the suspenseful downfall of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Plenty of people noticed how weird his strutting came off, but adding a bit of suspenseful music to a supercut of his lurking turned the debate into a full-blown horror movie.
Though it may be overwrought in its complications, it's impossible not to admire "The Left-Handed Fate" for its epic scope, joyful evocation of life on the high seas and suspenseful mystery.
What I heard was dynamic and inquisitive, by turns capable of grandiosity and suspenseful quiet; but when I opened my eyes again, his right hand was a full foot above the keyboard.
A prominent, hugely suspenseful part of the book involves embedding Saga Bauer, a brave, smart, beautiful cop whose role many actresses would covet, in the same tiny ward where Jurek is housed.
But once Siegmund (here the veteran tenor Simon O'Neill), seeking shelter in a hut, chances upon the fearful young Sieglinde (the radiant soprano Heidi Melton), Wagner's music turns mysterious and quietly suspenseful.
"Blondel's delicate but suspenseful sentences exploit the shared erotic frisson of their renewed acquaintance to investigate how much of ourselves we are really willing to unveil," Ayten Tartici writes in her review.
It will be refreshing to see the comedy actress flexing new muscles, and with a story that suspenseful, thank God we won't have to wait 12 seasons to see how it ends.
"Young Ahmed" is suspenseful and economical, with a clear sense of what's at stake, but something crucial — perhaps a deeper insight into the character or the contradictions that ensnare him — is missing.
But Mr. Biss settled comfortably into the later movements, and his suspenseful treatment of the halting, fragmented ending of the work proved especially apt and profound, given his preoccupation with leave-taking.
Now in its 11th year, the "International Grand Prize of Dubbing," as the event is known, mirrors the Oscars in having a mélange of comedy sketches, musical numbers and suspenseful envelope openings.
After all, they were not merely speaking but also spitting constant rhymes ("mumps" and "humps") and off-rhymes ("pencil" and "suspenseful") that worked nearly as effectively as those in traditional, prefab songs.
And opening the door to such changes raises suspenseful questions about how far they will go, beginning with the issue of what movies will be shown and how they may be censored.
A suspenseful, intense electronic soundtrack set the mood for a series of futuristic close-ups: dusty white residue on a computer keyboard, various digital control panels, an orange robotic arm sliding into action.
It's a highly efficient, hugely suspenseful film that is stylistically fixated as much on the how of its crimes as the why, making its appearance in this process-oriented episode feel especially pointed.
The show, originally about a stalker sending threatening texts to five teenagers, has spent seven seasons transcending peers like Gossip Girl and becoming a suspenseful thriller, crammed with anonymous hackers and nasty gadgets.
Not only is there suspenseful music and plenty of anger coming from a scarred Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), there's a pair of heartbreaking shots showing Carrie Fisher that'll give fans all the feels.
"We know our audience will be captivated by the film's suspenseful storytelling and brave characters as they fight for survival,"  Daniels, YouTube's Global Head of Original Content, in a statement earlier this year.
Now for the part that threw everyone off: the officer cracks open the can in suspenseful silence, takes a sip, nods in approval and then, finally, the crowd goes absolutely mad with joy.
Reconstructing eerie, menacing crime scenes, making inspired deductive leaps that stretch credulity, lovingly poring over one grim tableau after another… that can be a treat even if it's never quite suspenseful or surprising.
His acknowledgement of her frustration emboldens her and sets them both on a path of righteous revenge that is equal parts funny, violent, and suspenseful, earning Blair apt comparisons to the Coen brothers.
" Ms. Ritter has already shown an affinity for shadowy, suspenseful material in her film and TV work, playing enigmatic characters on shows like "Breaking Bad" and "Don't Trust the B - - - - in Apartment 23.
The second is the confrontation between Elizabeth and Jackson, a moment that would have been riveting and suspenseful in any case but became unforgettable when Jackson, against all odds, leaves the car alive.
" Still, "he is a deft portrayer of his allies and adversaries," as he tries to get the United States out of Vietnam, and "he knows how to make the driest diplomacy surprisingly suspenseful.
Again and again, its stark and suspenseful compositions strike the eye—figures in dark clothing, prone on a pale beach, with lines of wire, black warning flags, and the chill gray waves beyond.
McMann Was Kind Of Born Into The YA Genre Kennedy McMann's mother is Lisa McMann, author of a number of suspenseful paranormal and fantasy YA novels (Dead to You, Cryer's Cross, Unwanteds Quests).
But we're not coming to Ghosted for heartwarming moments—we're coming to jump from our seats at every twist and turn of this very serious, very suspenseful glorified social media stalking rabbit hole.
Cohen's quest for retribution has the potential to be a pivotal development in Trump's term and will certainly be the most suspenseful public moment yet in the swirl of scandals afflicting the President.
The books he recommends range from suspenseful thrillers like "House of Spies, " by Daniel Silva to political non-fiction like "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes, " by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy.
In the suspenseful final moments of the show, it was revealed that Kordei came in third place in the competition, leaving Ross and Jennings as the two remaining contestants vying for the winning title.
Whether it's telling a suspenseful story, stringing together breaking news facts, or going on a long-winded rant that should have been a blog post, tweetstorms let you distribute deeper and more nuanced content.
"Emailing the ballots around early in the week for all the main awards categories, and collating the responses in advance will go a long way to make the party fun and suspenseful," she says.
Suspenseful footage of fires rolling toward Hollywood mansions also drew the dark fascination of Americans in other parts of the country, who may not normally follow the region's long battle with drought and wildfires.
Combining that realism with the extraordinary was always so profound and awesome, and certainly something I wanted to maintain with this movie was having it feel authentic, and also super suspenseful and certainly extraordinary.
The L.A. Times review says it's neither funny nor suspenseful, curiously only noting the film's sexy female characters, played by Lesley Ann Warren and Colleen Camp, as the only things worth paying attention to.
But he also included the video above, which shows, first in suspenseful slow motion and then in heart-stopping real time, a hand entering the water as the eel responds to the apparent threat.
Marías, considered the leading Spanish novelist of his generation, is no stranger to plot: In books like "The Infatuations" and "A Heart So White" he spawns suspenseful tangents as plentiful and tangled as spaghetti.
THE CLOSER And finally … NASA's InSight spacecraft survived its suspenseful descent at 85033,300 mph through the thin atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed on the planet's surface on Monday after a six-month journey.
Ethan, a brilliant scientist in the making, learns that lesson too late in "Our House," an overly familiar but elegantly suspenseful throwback to the 1980s, when Steven Spielberg dominated as a director and producer.
Ways of Seeing With its preternaturally perceptive narrator and missing-person plot, Meg Rosoff's layered and brooding novel "Picture Me Gone" matches the emotional sophistication and suspenseful storytelling of many of your favorite books.
It was suspenseful, comic (in the K.G.B.'s ability to stay two steps ahead of the F.B.I.) and heartbreaking, as she clung to the belief that her marriage to a K.G.B. agent was real.
That ethical tension — between justice and vengeance — is the subject of Martin Zandvliet's "Land of Mine," a tight and suspenseful film that is one of the five nominees for the foreign language film Oscar.
At the Walker, where audiences were on three sides of the space, live musicians — singer and double bass — delivered wonderfully weird displays, ranging from jazz coloratura to rasping edginess, ideally heightening the suspenseful atmosphere.
Tiny inflections matter: One man keeps allowing another to push him back onto a mattress before descending to rough him up tenderly, yet each iteration is so freshly, differently delivered that it stays suspenseful.
Sometimes I feel like my attention span is shot from years of scrolling through tiny bits of content on the internet, but when I read something suspenseful I feel like I can focus for longer.
Those tones may not rival the national anthem, but they will tell Juno mission managers whether the spacecraft has successfully performed a "suspenseful" maneuver that will allow it to be pulled into orbit around Jupiter.
The suspenseful quiet that takes up a large part of the game leaves room for the players' human quirks to steal the spotlight, fascinating fans as every movement tugs on the fate of the game.
"The predilection of the director, producer and scenarist for the unusual in mood, background music and characterization makes this chase more confusing than suspenseful," a film critic for The New York Times wrote in 1946.
As Sunday's episode revealed, any number of moments immediately following the bludgeoning would have allowed last season to end on a chilling, suspenseful note after also providing the payoff that had been teased for months.
Every time there was a subdued, tender or quietly suspenseful episode in the score, you sensed the musical subtleties, wistful lyricism and ear for keen detail that have made Mr. Wainwright such a fine songwriter.
In this scene, over a stretch of fraught and suspenseful music, the Shadow Marnies take turns on the analyst's couch, which proved a powerful metaphor: Don't all people reveal multiple personalities in a therapist's office?
Dear Lillie, The growing stacks of suspenseful books from around the world that are available to American readers provide a boon to both armchair detectives and armchair travelers — and to readers who identify as both.
While it's as suspenseful as any Le Carré plot, it's structured less around spycraft than around a series of seductions, overlapping and conflicting, that allow Park to indulge his fondness for moments of heightened melodrama.
In an interactive installation, guests can step into a Final Rose Ceremony, walk down a candlelit red carpet and listen as the host, Chris Harrison, counsels them toward a proposal, all to buzzingly suspenseful effect.
MOLLY LIEBER AND ELEANOR SMITH Sometimes naked — or rather nude (I thought of Degas's female bathers) — Ms. Lieber and Ms. Smith made their hourlong "Basketball" at the Baryshnikov Arts Center a suspenseful study of symbiosis.
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The suspenseful trailer features Dr. Eldon Chance appearing on edge after getting in way over his head with his beautiful patient, Jaclyn Blackstone (Gretchen Mol) and feeling the wrath from her husband Raymond Blackstone (Paul Adelstein).
"We stayed very true to the book and that's initially what Jay Asher created was a beautifully tragic, complicated yet suspenseful story and I think that's what we wanted to do," she told the Associated Press.
But Lin and screenwriters Simon Pegg (who returns as Scotty) and Doug Jung don't put much heft behind these questions, letting them be mildly suspenseful mysteries we're pretty sure will be solved before the credits roll.
"Everybody Wants Some!!" is many things — a baseball caper, a sex farce, a campus romance, a campus bromance — but the film's real claim to distinction may be that it's the least suspenseful ticking-clock movie ever.
Though it was marketed mainly as a horror film, They Look Like People somehow manages to balance a story about the bonds and challenges of friendship against a taut and suspenseful tale of complete psychological breakdown.
To say it's depressing, then, is to state the obvious; less evident is why Mr. Pellington, previously known for suspenseful thrillers like "Arlington Road" and "The Mothman Prophecies," would dive down this rabbit hole at all.
And now Ms. Winstead is testing herself anew: She is co-starring in a revival of "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's subtly suspenseful drama of grief and manipulation, that runs at Second Stage Theater until June 30.
"Ghost Fleet" hits its marks as advocacy, but editing might have put more emphasis on the individual men, added further detail about the illicit networks or tracked Tungpuchayakul's journey in a more focused and suspenseful manner.
Anderson, the lone male of the writers, tells Henry's side, while the women's voices — from Fleming's Katharine of Aragon to Hopkinson's Kateryn Parr, Wife No. 6 — paint a suspenseful picture of doomed romance and courtly intrigue.
To build hype for what seems to be a second full trailer for Mulan, Walt Disney Studios released a rhythmic and suspenseful sneak peak, complete with action shots and Mulan dodging multiple arrows in slow motion.
The teen protagonists, ranging from nerdy to cool to bullied to burned out and everything in between, feel real, and the parents are actually treated fairly, too.... Want to find a dark, suspenseful documentary on Hulu?
But physicality is insistent here, and so is the human spirit, which finds suspenseful, exalted expression as one woman (Alba Faivre, daring with a rope) climbs and falls and climbs in an attempt to get out.
Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro square off in this suspenseful drama, in which an F.B.I. agent and a mysterious operative grudgingly work together to stop a Mexican drug cartel smuggling terrorists into the United States.
Modern horror movie trailers like this new one for It tend to mimic the structure of modern horror films, with the same suspenseful build-up and release — even if that's not what the film is really like.
I might also just be salty because this is the first time the choice of having a jumpy timeline made things less suspenseful à la all the repetition of scenes in How To Get Away With Murder.
Stranger Things is the perfect summer binge watch – fun, suspenseful and beautifully shot, with heroes and heroines that make you say, "she looks like this person I know" – and then they're up against a super creepy monster.
Switching between Offred in her current hell and flashbacks of her life before Gilead — she had both a partner and a daughter — Tale is relentlessly grim, tense and suspenseful, and filmed with a perfunctory, rather ugly dailyness.
"Eye in the Sky," directed by Gavin Hood ("Tsotsi") from a screenplay by Guy Hibbert ("Five Minutes of Heaven"), is a grim, suspenseful farce in which unpredictable human behavior repeatedly threatens an operation of astounding technological sophistication.
Sital, who reveres her tall, strong and generous grandfather, with his white hair and "skin the color of a sapphire sky," spends much of her suspenseful memoir, "Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad," elucidating this response.
Administration officials told The Times that the White House even got Judge Thomas Hardiman, the runner-up to Neil Gorsuch, to play along and help make the final rose ceremony suspenseful by feinting a drive toward Washington.
The annoying, robotic Ashley Too—with her sleek, white, almost Apple-like design, topped by that bright magenta wig—places a focus on a fan relationship that steals about half the episode, and isn't at all suspenseful.
Don't Breathe is less scary than it is suspenseful, but its most crucial plot twist delivers such a payoff that you'll want to go in unspoiled — and preferably see the film alongside a large and vocal audience.
Naturally, this makes for exciting, suspenseful viewing, but I suspect it's also the key to the show's moral design — helping us see ourselves as not merely the victims or the victimizers, the watchers or the watched, but both.
Lois Duncan, whose suspenseful young adult novels inspired the slasher movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and who later wrote about the unsolved murder of her daughter, died on Wednesday at her home in Bradenton, Fla.
Watch it herePart drama, part thriller, and part dark comedy, "Tin Star" is an exhilaratingly smart, breathlessly suspenseful thrill-ride of a show as deceit, guilt, love, and all-consuming rage lead inexorably to a gut-wrenching finale.
Throughout the tale of the rare-book seller and new parent Apollo Kagwa's nightmarish and suspenseful search for his wife and son, cross-cultural folklore and familiar stories fly (Maurice Sendak's "Outside Over There" takes a star turn).
Robert Cormier's deeply unsettling, desperately suspenseful and structurally complicated novel from 1977, "I Am the Cheese," tracks the thoughts of Adam Farmer, a troubled boy on a bicycle who is caught up in sinister events beyond his understanding.
But since his real money comes from trading in rare first editions, this makes him a suspect as a possible fence for the Fitzgerald manuscripts, the clever theft of which gets "Camino Island" off to its suspenseful start.
It's become a little easy to say that a documentary unfolds like a big-budget spectacle, but "Sea of Shadows" — a suspenseful, wide-screen drama filled with gunfire, cartels and corruption — is actually shot and edited like one.
It's become a little easy to say that a documentary unfolds like a big-budget spectacle, but "Sea of Shadows" — a suspenseful, wide-screen drama filled with gunfire, cartels and corruption — is actually shot and edited like one.
Umm (Jacqueline Antaramian) belongs to a storytelling family, and she attempts to join their traditionally male ranks by turning her drama into a suspenseful riddle: Which of her three sons was shot dead on a beach one night?
But the events of May 1940 that Christopher Nolan explores in "Dunkirk" is a "very suspenseful, thrilling tale that isn't necessarily one that fits in exactly and neatly into films that you've seen before," the British director told Reuters.
That hasn't stopped me from trying to do better as I try to navigate these crises, but it has meant that the game feels much less suspenseful and much more manageable than I think suits its end-times tone.
Nocturnal Animals stars Adams as a depressed LA gallerist who begins reading a manuscript of a novel that her ex-husband wrote after she cheated on him and left him, and it's by turns suspenseful, upsetting, funny, and glamorous.
It begins with a harrowing depiction of life on a Georgia plantation around 303, before taking off on a suspenseful journey through several different states with social systems that mash up racial terrors from decades far into the future.
A trio of musicians played an array of Syrian compositions while everyone witnessed the grand, suspenseful reveal: the arch was hidden beneath a translucent plastic covering, as if its appearance is a mystery, and organizers removed it with flourish.
Based on a short story by Peter Crowther that the Duffers adapted, the suspenseful 18-minute movie was well received by genre fans and eventually led to the brothers getting representation at Paradigm Talent Agency, where they remain prized clients.
"We stayed very true to the book and that's initially what Jay Asher created was a beautifully tragic, complicated yet suspenseful story and I think that's what we wanted to do," Gomez told the Associated Press in defense of the controversy.
From a plot perspective, we were like, That would make a funny, tense, suspenseful episode of TV." FD: "In reviews of the show, a lot of people were like, 'This is a tired infertility plot that we've seen so many times.
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - The U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials, which had shaped up as a formality, have turned suddenly suspenseful with an unexpected shakeup in the battle for Rio Games spots ahead of the final round of competition on Sunday.
The suspenseful picture, directed by Sidney Lumet, resonated with moviegoers across the board and was not only a box office success but an Academy Awards favorite, nabbing six nominations, although winning just one, which Ingrid Bergman attained for Best Actress.
You can relive the suspenseful, thrilling, and emotional tale of Joel and Ellie trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic society overrun by infectious monsters, or play it for the first time and see what the hype is all about.
Chris Harrison Doesn't Always Listen To Producers During the night, producers and Mike Fleiss, the creator of The Bachelor and mastermind behind some of the show's most suspenseful and dramatic moments, feed show host Chris Harrison questions via an earpiece.
Australian horror flick The Babadook is a suspenseful and generally awesome film, but dressing up as the scary character from which the movie takes its name is no mean feat — particularly if everyone else at the party doesn't dress up.
Trump announced the selection of Kavanaugh, a politically connected judge on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, after a suspenseful day that resembled the lead-up to his first Supreme Court pick, Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Comprising a short, suspenseful video (also titled "Black Friday") set atop a sculptural scattering of small, flickering screens on a pile of sand, this exhibition turns the famously opulent malls of Doha, Qatar's capital, into a kind of horror set.
And Mr. Farr and Ms. Bier, who make the story's chronology linear and emphasize its scenic and suspenseful elements, haven't found a way to reproduce the inner life that Mr. le Carré gives Pine, largely through the filigree of his writing.
It's pretty suspenseful when you're facing down the third wave with a patchwork lineup of exhausted A-team members and oddball C-team hopefuls, and I was pushed to sort of invent and adapt to new tactical situations on the fly.
For Mr. Abrams, the director of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and an aficionado of all things geeky, "10 Cloverfield Lane" is his latest modern-day throwback to the suspenseful monster movies and science-fiction TV shows he grew up with.
"The Ferryman," a sprawling Irish drama by the English writer Jez Butterworth, won the Tony for best new play, fueled by admiration for its sophisticated storytelling, which manages to be suspenseful and funny and romantic and eerie — all at once.
As dazzlingly directed by Sam Mendes, this sprawling portrait of a rural Irish family during the Troubles makes singularly dexterous use of a basic tool often considered old hat in the theater these days: a juicy, suspenseful and impeccably orchestrated plot.
The result is a powerful and suspenseful film, part detective story and part courtroom drama, fueled by a potent mix of curiosity and indignation and full of memorable characters speaking in the lively idioms and varied accents of New York.
But none of his seven competitors appear willing to drop out and party leaders continue to fret about a Sanders candidacy, increasing apprehension about a suspenseful convention in Milwaukee, rather than the predictable media event Americans have grown used to.
But none of his seven competitors appear willing to drop out and party leaders continue to fret about a Sanders candidacy, increasing apprehension about a suspenseful convention in Milwaukee, rather than the predictable media event Americans have grown used to.
"We knew when we were making Season 1 that we were telling a challenging and suspenseful story in a pretty unflinching way," said Brian Yorkey, the playwright ("Next to Normal") who adapted the book for Netflix and is the series' showrunner.
If you're looking for a movie with minimal spoken dialogue you can go to a theater to see "A Quiet Place," John Krasinski's agonizingly suspenseful thriller — or you can stay home and watch this charming stop-motion movie from Aardman Animations.
R. In a similar vein to her previous novel Eileen, Moshfegh brings us the dark, suspenseful, and morbidly funny whodunit Death in Her Hands, which follows elderly widow Vesta Gul as she happens upon a mystery that quickly obsesses her.
In suspenseful stories, victory often comes with sacrifice, and in the story where the Cubs win the World Series, it costs them more than Jorge Soler—it probably costs Javier Baez, who might just be the best player of the posse.
Though Moon is a suspenseful and even occasionally very funny movie, at its core lies a profound alienation, as an anxious man looks into the blank face of his robot pal and wonders what's really clicking and whirring inside that electronic brain. Netflix.
"Clearly, the most suspenseful meeting in terms of the impact on markets and the global economy is going to be President Trump's meeting with President Xi," said Michael Hirson, practice head of China and North East Asia at political consultancy firm Eurasia Group.
While those of us who can't get enough of Mike, Dustin, and the rest of the gang's antics or that suspenseful love triangle between Nancy, Jonathan, and Steve, the show's renewal is great news, but we're still left with plenty of questions.
Making an impactful feature debut, Trachtenberg eschews the well-worn found-footage technique in favor of a suspenseful style that's more consistent with the tense character dynamics of the first two-thirds of the movie, perceptibly heightened by the claustrophobic underground setting.
The movie's challenge is to bottle her spontaneity, which is clearly thrilling to behold in person but less dynamic in a medium that requires every move to be selected in advance, without the suspenseful bond that an artist shares with a live audience.
On the contrary, he has delivered a gritty, intense drama that calls to mind the dark thrillers of the 1970s, a suspenseful addition to the prison genre that wears its deep research and attention to detail on its black-and-white-striped sleeve.
She interweaves this invented book with her own so that the two texts and the two journeys — one by car, meandering and almost desultory; the other speeding forward with the almost locomotive propulsion of suspenseful fiction — seem on their way to a collision.
WASHINGTON — President Trump cleared up one of the capital's least suspenseful mysteries on Thursday, acknowledging that he did not record conversations with James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director he fired in anger over an investigation into his campaign's possible ties to Russia.
Such links are the unswerving focus of "World War I and American Art" at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a panoramic show that has the narrative flow of a documentary, and the suspenseful, off-kilter emotional texture of live drama.
Back in 1998, the impeachment battle felt like the ultimate drama, so intense that the rest of the world seemed to have stopped spinning on its axis, yet so fluid and suspenseful that it was never entirely certain how it would play out.
It's not "suspenseful" because when you are laying the foundation of an entire system of government — not to mention the society, the lives of 300-plus million people who rely on that government to keep them safe — you have to deal in certainty.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Casey Affleck in "Manchester by the Sea" Andrew Garfield in "Hacksaw Ridge" Ryan Gosling in "La La Land" Viggo Mortensen in "Captain Fantastic" Denzel Washington in "Fences" This ranks as one of the few major categories that's genuinely suspenseful.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the 25-year-old actress discussed her book out Tuesday — a suspenseful story of three teenage friends who cope with the mysterious disappearance of their bandmate — and how her own pain as a teen helped guide the narrative.
Dunkirk is a visually stunning, and heart-pounding slow burn, fueled by its suspenseful score from Hans Zimmer, and its perfectly cast crew of soldiers, commanders, and civilians who rely on their facial expressions and physical acting ability rather than the film's sparse dialogue.
Click here to view original GIFDid you know you were waiting for an epic supercut of SpaceX's historic Falcon 9 launch and landing, complete with a suspenseful soundtrack and a victorious cheering scene that looks like it was ripped straight out of The Martian?
While we have to wait to see if the HBO drama gets picked up for a third season to find out the answers to some of these suspenseful questions, it turns out Nicole's skincare secret can be found on the shelves of your local drugstore.
Books of The Times Ben Macintyre's suspenseful new book, "Rogue Heroes," about the founding of Britain's S.A.S. during World War II, reads like a mashup of "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Great Escape," with a sprinkling of "Ocean's 11" thrown in for good measure.
The ensemble juggling — often small-scale, sustained over long periods and patterned across areas of the stage — creates a kind of music drama I've never known: an extra layer of suspenseful background excitement against which the often ceremonious movement of the leading characters takes off.
But after a series of ostensibly high-stakes missions turned into dull processionals through waves of ineffectual enemies—even an enemy attack helicopter proved to be little more than an annoyance—I realized it had been hours since anything genuinely suspenseful or novel had happened.
The first half was more suspenseful than most expected as George Washington never let the Flyers lead by more than four points, and actually ripped off 11 unanswered points to grab a 19-12 advantage when Potter hit a short jumper with 9:26 left.
Apart from the swearing, the nudity and the nonmarital sex, it's the kind of suspenseful, romantic melodrama of awakened conscience that might have been made in Hollywood or Britain in the early years of the war, before the worst of its horrors were widely known.
Opinion Columnist Paul Tough's important new book on the broken promises of higher education begins with a chapter that he succeeds in making as suspenseful as the prologue of any serial-killer novel and as heart-rending as the climax of an epic romance.
Instead, here are migrant lives reduced to suspenseful and thrilling entertainment, marketable for their adrenaline-laced events and their ability to advertise that Americans care, even if they do nothing to allay the suffering of those on the other side of the barbed wire.
The book oscillates between a suspenseful, hour-by-hour account of the day of this event and a lighter, almost parodic, account of the father's car journey — with his infant daughter — to visit her mother, who remains hospitalized after the baby's birth, for depression.
That said, Berg has so painstakingly sought to replicate those tense hours that the movie sacrifices something in the way of dramatic impact, making its march toward the end of the manhunt for the brothers -- which yields the movie's most harrowing sequence -- feel more procedural than suspenseful.
But if you put aside the film's potential political impact for a moment, it turns out that 213 Hours is a rather gripping contemporary war movie, a suspenseful, hectic siege film that plays up the anxiety and uncertainty of modern warfare for soldiers on the ground.
Here are some other hidden categories we were saddened to see didn't have any entries at the moment: War Alien Sci-Fi (3570), Suspenseful Time-Travel Movies (2778), Sentimental Action and Adventure (4879), MTV TV Shows (4221), and Feel-Good Education and Guidance Starring Muppets (4699).
Users have adopted the tweetstorm for a number of reasons – to tell personal, suspenseful or funny stories via Twitter, to connect facts surrounding breaking news, to rant about politics or other issues, or even to just make a longer post more readable and easier to follow.
"The Return" is, at once, a suspenseful detective story about a writer investigating his father's fate at the hands of a brutal dictatorship, and a son's efforts to come to terms with his father's ghost, who has haunted more than half his life by his absence.
It's a testament to Holsinger's storytelling prowess that a novel revolving largely around something called the Cognitive Proficiency test (or the CogPro, as everyone refers to it) manages to be both a suspenseful, laugh-out-loud page-turner and an incisive inspection of privilege, race and class.
Set in a Detroit infused with elements of Haitian voodoo that creates a mood of magical realism, this elegant and suspenseful debut follows the story of Fabiola, who must stay with her cousins while she attempts to get her mother out of an immigration detention facility.
At least that was the impression from a faux movie trailer he had specially made for the occasion, depicting his first-of-its-kind encounter with Mr. Kim as a suspenseful, pulse-pounding thriller with nothing less than the future of the world on the line.
Both Roberta's rush of observations — savage and silly with tenderness running just under the surface — and the suspenseful structure of the story compel binge-reading of this novel that has all the gore and violence of a horror story but also a big, red teenage heart.
And yet Michael Barker, a co-founder of the company and one of its two presidents, when given the chance to program a personalized triple feature, chose three 1950s westerns, all by underrated auteurs who used the form as a vessel for eccentric and suspenseful moral explorations.
The suspenseful tweet ensured that all eyes were on Trump when he outlined the major national security accomplishment in grisly detail — repeatedly invoking the same phrases he's used to humiliate political opponents at campaign rallies to recount the final moments of the world's most notorious terrorist.
The other favorite for the nomination -- Judge Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals -- ended up driving more than 100 miles Tuesday morning toward Washington from his Pittsburgh home in an apparent gambit to keep everyone guessing -- and continue to flood the airwaves with a suspenseful storyline.
That's a reprieve black audiences may especially appreciate after the year of stellar but stressful black films we've had: 2018 started with suspenseful, action-packed films like Black Panther, Breaking In, and Proud Mary, and this summer brought politically charged movies like BlacKkKlansman and Sorry to Bother You.
Final Rose: The suspenseful last pick during any given Rose Ceremony, an occasion that is announced with fanfare by otherwise oft-absent host Chris Harrison, who enjoys saying "the final rose" in a dramatic tone of voice, with clasped hands and a knowing look cast toward the bachelor/bachelorette.
The effect of watching a film take on the internet is more a case of gizmo versus gizmo; like Black Mirror, its choreography employs all manner of state-of-the-art prestidigitation to make texting feel suspenseful, dramatize mundane clicking, or simulate the giddy nakedness of impulse-posting.
The combination of thrilling, suspenseful covert operations and the intricate domestic dramas of Phillip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) make it one of the most intense, addicting and incredibly well-plotted shows on television right now, and now, has finally earned the show some awards recognition.
HBO's choice to announce the eighth season date in the new year probably dampened the psychological impact for fans, who will wait more than a year for the wildly suspenseful show to return after the season seven finale, "The Dragon and the Wolf," aired on August 27, 2017.
"Movies have to find a way to create the suspenseful moment, but I cannot say that I've had a wedding where there's a runaway bride or the groom didn't show up because he had cold feet or someone objected and the bride ran out the door of the church."
Nick Jonas, who is 23, made a convincing college student in the television series "Scream Queens" last season, but he makes an exceedingly unconvincing high school student in the wretched "Careful What You Wish For," a film that tries to be both titillating and suspenseful but is neither.
But in the absence of a worthy adversary—think of Mr Jordan's second title, over the Portland Trail Blazers, or Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal's first, against the Indiana Pacers, the playoffs can feel more like a methodical march towards a pre-ordained destination than genuinely suspenseful entertainment.
But far from taking the novel down a darker, more suspenseful avenue, this simply means we're offered pages of lengthy witness statements from various kooky locals who may or may not have seen the girl, not to mention a weirdly involved account of the lost child's moth obsession.
On Thursday night, just after she secured her fifth all-around world championship — in what could reasonably be considered the least suspenseful international title event in all of sports this year — Biles was asked to step back and consider the heights she has scaled in the field of gymnastics.
Director Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) really gets his mitts on you with this one: It's wild and suspenseful, and without his trademark trick of pulling the rug out from under you at the end with such a vigorous tug that you end up on your backside and not terribly amused.
Alternatively, it could have been more suspenseful and clever to let viewers in on the scheme, either by showing spies listening to Arya and Sansa's conversations, or with hints like Margaery's surreptitious plea for her grandmother Olenna to leave the capital while she was under the watch of the Faith Militant.
Listening to Fraser speak in the measured timbre of a veteran academic, as she often does, is a bit like listening to an opera singer softly hum a tune — it can be suspenseful, knowing just how much power she is capable of unleashing, how much voltage is being kept under control.
The suspenseful, Steven Spielberg-directed The Post tells the story of how Graham and executive editor Ben Bradlee (depicted by Tom Hanks with the perfect amount of sarcasm and newsroom gruff) helped then-local newspaper The Washington Post race neck-in-neck with The New York Times to publish the Pentagon Papers.
Roughead was one of those great Edwardian hobbyists; he attended almost every important murder trial in Scotland for 60 years, and the dispatches collected here (I haven't been able to resist a quick rummage) are full of dry wit, suspenseful courtroom scenes and, above all, a deep, almost majestic wisdom about human psychology.
Another contributor to "Trickster," Joseph Marshall III, layers nonfiction and fiction in his slim, suspenseful novel "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" (with illustrations by Jim Yellowhawk), about a mixed-race Lakota boy who learns more about his heritage through his grandfather's gripping stories about the fierce Lakota warrior of the title.
The race for this year's acting Oscars couldn't possibly be less suspenseful: You can engrave those Academy Awards right now for Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker"), Renée Zellweger ("Judy"), Brad Pitt ("Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood") and Laura Dern ("Marriage Story"), the fearsome foursome set to sweep up every trophy from now until Feb.
"Reflection" gives an illusion of narrative, not process, with suspenseful stretches of near-stasis — though never silence, as echoes linger — punctuated by moments when a few notes in sequence take on the gravity of a melody, or when high and low tones arrive together like a rustle of wind through a forest.
It was a suspenseful two-night finale for fans after Underwood was dumped by Cassie Randolph on Monday night's episode, leaving him with Tayshia and Hannah G. But in a shocking turn of events, Underwood turned around and said goodbye to both remaining women in order to ask Randolph for another chance.
Season three only delivers seven episodes, but it may be the series' most emotional, exciting, and suspenseful yet, as the team members find a new addition in a current ally, make the heavy choice of selecting a new leader, and work out their differences to continue defending the universe as a newly reformed Voltron.
But he hasn't acknowledged "Copycat"—unless one decides that when, in "The Woman in the Window," a photograph with a time stamp in its corner downloads from the Internet at a suspenseful, dial-up speed, it is an homage to the same scene in "Copycat," rather than an indictment of Internet service providers in Manhattan.
Isolation was a wonderful love letter to the industrial design of the first two films, all hulking great bulkheads and tight, terrifying air shafts, monochromatic computer displays and handmade tools, which found its canon position in Alien lore between the events of Ridley Scott's suspenseful Alien and its 1986, action-orientated sequel directed by James Cameron, Aliens.
"When you are talking about crime — criminal cases, the police in large cities, this suspenseful feeling of mystery — I feel that readers all over the world like this kind of thing," he said in an interview here in his hometown, Yangzhou, a historical imperial city of two million people on the Yangtze River a couple hours upstream from Shanghai.
" Lyrical Lit Since you mentioned "Lincoln in the Bardo," I thought I'd take a chance and point you toward two books of high style: Sheila Watson's elemental, modernist classic from 1959, "The Double Hook," and a more recent novel that plays into your musical interest: Esi Edugyan's suspenseful, richly voiced historical jazz novel, "Half-Blood Blues.
After covering the initial phase of the case in December, when Mr. Roof was found guilty of 33 counts by a jury that deliberated for only two hours, I am now back in Charleston for the more suspenseful penalty phase, when the same jury must decide whether to sentence Mr. Roof to death or life in prison without parole.
And if it's over 100 degrees — a medic said people were "dropping like flies" and a graduate student, Morgan Frick, lamented that her now-frizzy hair "was straight when I got here" — and the game is suspenseful for only as long as it took Henry Ruggs III to bolt 75 yards for a touchdown on the first play, well.
A PLACE TO CALL HOME on Acorn TV. This suspenseful melodrama is among the most popular series on Acorn TV. Set in 1950s Australia, the series chronicles the tumultuous lives of the wealthy Bligh family after World War II. It offers the juicy essentials expected from a soap — secrets, betrayal, romance — but also poignantly addresses social issues from that era.
The first was a straight tango (full of give and take, constantly suspenseful), the second a tango-valse (rapturous and witty), the third a near-tragic piece of lyricism that, for all its lack of theatrics, turned out to contain its own drama: an attempted kiss on his part, a break away from her, a forlorn retreat by him, and finally a sudden, tender reconciliation and embrace.
Much in its pages will be familiar to those with some knowledge of boxing but even the familiar may be glimpsed from a new perspective in Eig's fluent prose; for pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel — a suspenseful novel with a cast of vivid characters who prevail through decades and who help to define the singular individual who was both a brilliantly innovative, incomparably charismatic heavyweight boxer and a public figure whose iconic significance shifted radically through the decades as in an unlikely fairy tale in which the most despised athlete in American history becomes, by the 21st century, the most beloved athlete in American history.

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