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The backward-forward structure creates entwined tracks of suspense between the outcome of the Andrew relationship and the expected ramifications of what’s assumed to be a revealing letter.

Still, it’s impossible to jump-start any suspense when the couple’s all-powerful GPS knows best.

One of the toughest items to track down was the Oscar awarded to editor Verna Fields, whose taut cutting built the film’s suspense.

By late in the third quarter, the only suspense remaining in UCLA’s 43-10 blowout loss to Utah was waiting for the announced attendance.

You couldn’t call his “Thursday Murder Club” nuanced, and it’s almost completely without suspense, but in the simplest terms, it fulfills the assignment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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