suspenseful
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Mr. Krivak suspensefully spaces out the events of the cave-in, interweaving them with the quiet drama of Ondro’s life as a survivor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
But however suspensefully the score groans and cries, the emotional stakes dwindle with each overemphatic narrative curve.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2016
Each of his two most recent books, “Agent Zigzag” and “Operation Mincemeat,” has been suspensefully written and studded with exotic details.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2012
“Lost Memory of Skin” unfolds suspensefully, deriving an eerie moral tension from the question of just which laws the Kid actually broke.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2011
It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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