It also relies more on character analysis as a means of conveying dramatic suspense, in particular with respect to the passions of the enamoured Zeliha.

The elements of ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level.

The choreography was hardly as dazzling as the standard Petipa pas de deux in this scene, but oddly, the dramatic suspense was real.

That last item alone accounts for a good half-hour of nail-biting dramatic suspense in "Teddy and Alice."

It plays on shiny residual sentiments about the nation's beginnings with considerable ingenuity and even dramatic suspense.

"Speaking in Tongues" takes on the only-too-obvious theme of good and evil and transforms it into dramatic suspense, creating a contemporary morality play.

By keeping her audience guessing, Ms. Chuma helped generate dramatic suspense.

Clarke explained his use of tone clusters in a theatrical production as a way to heighten dramatic suspense:

His chosen literary sources, often intense or even macabre, inspired music that is equally fraught, eloquently capturing the dramatic suspense.

But it does so with considerable ingenuity and in a way that actually finds dramatic suspense in a most familiar plot.