create suspense

While there wasn't much story to speak of, the director had made an attempt to create suspense.

But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge.

The technique is used to create suspense in a story, or develop a character.

This is a subtle and effective way of creating suspense.

The first segment plays like a textbook exercise in how to create suspense.

Brown creates the Gothic feel of the novel in order to create suspense.

Its chases through dark narrow streets don't create suspense, since nothing is at stake.

By delaying this outcome, the writer can create suspense in the viewer.

As always, creating suspense on television requires manipulating time.

The hidden view creates suspense and excitement as one moves deeper into the garden.

Like Conrad, he creates suspense by placing us in the middle of the action, and then slowing it down.

Maybe the triple-tier postseason wears people out rather than creating suspense and story lines.

While Iverson could not deliver a victory, he could create suspense.

Mr. Erickson is on to something, and he succeeds in creating suspense.

In contrast to thrillers, the most important technique of creating suspense is the "whodunit".

To end many scenes in his plays he used a rhyming couplet, thus creating suspense.

Yet he knew how to create suspense, and how to draw the reader into a labyrinth of uncertainty.

You can create suspense out of subtlety.

We create suspense, mystery, an air of intrigue.

In this instance they can designate imminent action (a hand picking up a knife, for example), and thereby create suspense.

'Your story line is solid, but its level is so exalted you've forgotten to create suspense.

Run For Your Life is an outstanding example of writing which creates suspense from the opening page.

Fellini doesn't create suspense by cross-cutting between simultaneous actions.

Everyone did his best to create suspense: Would Mr. Clinton change his story?