Thesaurus / suspense
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Unfortunately, there’s just no real suspense to the various challenges facing our heroes.
THE ACTION-PACKED SAGA ‘MONKEY KING: JOURNEY TO THE WEST’ GETS A MODERN TAKEMICHAEL DIRDAMARCH 3, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s there that this publishing satire transforms into a lively suspense novel as Florence is forced to reckon with the person she’s become in her quest for fame.
HERE ARE THE 14 NEW BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ IN MARCHANNABEL GUTTERMANFEBRUARY 26, 2021TIMEHighsmith’s work will give you an unforgettable mix of pleasure and suspense.
HIGHSMITH AT 100: LITERARY LEGACY MARRED BY RACISMKATHI WOLFEFEBRUARY 10, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEThis is one of those games that knows how to ratchet up the suspense to get you talking to yourself.
‘LITTLE NIGHTMARES II’: A HYPNOTIC, DARK FAIRY TALECHRISTOPHER BYRDFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTA Rose Bowl national semifinal widely forecast to lack suspense wound up lacking suspense, unless you want to count the art exhibit.
ALABAMA ADVANCES TO THE NATIONAL TITLE GAME WITH AN ARTFUL OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCECHUCK CULPEPPER, DES BIELERJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe suspense with which Louis listened to this perfidious confederation, was almost insufferable.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERDuring so long drawn out a suspense I tried to ease the tension by dictation.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe suspense of waiting for the committee to decide upon the winner of the prize was hard to endure indeed.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISONThe dinner at Sivert Jespersen's the following day was silent, for all were in a state of suspense.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDFor awhile it almost seemed as though she were about to do this very thing, and the suspense nearly drove the girls frantic.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPEWORDS RELATED TO SUSPENSE
- apprehensions
- assumptions
- assurances
- calculations
- chances
- confidences
- conjectures
- designs
- expectancies
- fears
- forecasts
- hopes
- intentions
- likelihoods
- looking forwards
- motives
- notions
- outlooks
- possibilities
- predictions
- presumptions
- probabilities
- promises
- prospects
- reliance
- suppositions
- surmises
- suspense
- trusts
- views
- agitation
- anger
- annoyance
- ants in pants
- anxiety
- avidity
- disquietude
- eagerness
- edginess
- excitement
- expectancy
- fretfulness
- haste
- hastiness
- heat
- impetuosity
- intolerance
- irritability
- irritableness
- nervousness
- quick temper
- rashness
- restiveness
- restlessness
- shortness
- snappiness
- suspense
- uneasiness
- vehemence
- violence
- abeyance
- abeyancy
- adjournment
- break
- breather
- breathing spell
- cessation
- coffee break
- concluding
- conclusion
- cutoff
- deferment
- disbarment
- discontinuation
- discontinuing
- doldrums
- dormancy
- downtime
- end
- ending
- finish
- five
- freeze
- halt
- heave-ho
- intermission
- interruption
- latency
- layoff
- letup
- moratorium
- pause
- period
- postponement
- quiescence
- quiescency
- remission
- respite
- stay
- stoppage
- suspense
- ten
- termination
- time-out
- all-overs
- angst
- ants in pants
- anxiousness
- apprehension
- botheration
- butterflies
- care
- cold sweat
- concern
- creeps
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- doubt
- downer
- drag
- dread
- fidgets
- flap
- foreboding
- fretfulness
- fuss
- goose bumps
- heebie-jeebies
- jitters
- jumps
- misery
- misgiving
- mistrust
- nail-biting
- needles
- nervousness
- panic
- pins and needles
- restlessness
- shakes
- shivers
- solicitude
- suffering
- suspense
- sweat
- trouble
- uncertainty
- uneasiness
- watchfulness
- willies
- worriment
- worry
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