What is "suspenseful"

Usage examples of "suspenseful".

I find that if you change location or character in a majority of instances, you can also, where appropriate, continue the action of a suspenseful scene in the following chapter.

Chapter 3, the reader finds himself in a continuation of the suspenseful events in Chapter 1.

As a result, the tone of the book changed from an ordinary though suspenseful story told from the outside, to one readers could feel strongly.

Flapping open one of the rolled sheets he still held, Florian began to do so, with appropriate gestures, vocal modulations from piano to forte, occasional suspenseful pauses and distinctly audible capitals and italics.

After a suspenseful moment, keeping his head bent, he erected himself onto his knees, then slowly onto his feet, the iron ball staying put.

Abdullah commenced a slow, suspenseful, rumbling roll on his drum, while the roustabouts lowered Pepper almost to the ground.

Along with the novel of plot and the novel of character, certain old-fashioned theorists of the novel would sometimes speak of the novel of ideas, implying that it was a special taste, and that there is something distinct, if not antithetical, about ideas and the kind of narrative pleasure one derives from less abstract and more simply suspenseful stones: what will happen next?

By: Rochelle Krich Category: fiction medical Synopsis: As she has skillfully done in her past novels Speak No Evil and Angel of Death, Rochelle Krich adeptly tackles another timely and often heated controversial issue, fertility procedures, within the framework of a twisting plot--in this her most heart-pounding and suspenseful novel to date.

The cliffhanger ending, with the Armada approaching even as Sister Bernie faces the headman's axe, made for a long and suspenseful week as Vixites throughout the country waited avidly to find out what would happen next.

Beck somewhere found and purchased a snare drum and a tenor drum, and conscripted another Slovak into the band to play them, for they served better than Hannibal's big bass drum to sound a suspenseful roll during a thrill act or a brisk rataplan during clownish knockabouts.

No theatrics, no prolonged climaxes, no suspenseful divulgence of unnecessary secrets.