suspense's Usage Examples:

Join a nightmarish journey through faith and betrayal as the infamous warrior Jubei returns to confront the ultimate evil!The bfi release Alfred Hitchcock's beguiling blend of romanticism and nightmarish suspense, starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

Between the date of these letters and the day of her execution wellnigh three months of suspense elapsed.

In some cases suspense of judgment seems necessary even from the standpoint of Christian faith.

pentatonic modes, their harmonies float in mid-air, building a sweet suspense that is never quite released.

The Levanter, Eric Ambler's 1972 suspense novel, is topical again, given the recent strife in the Middle East.

Many of the arguments by which the Sceptics enforced their ad vocacy of a suspense of judgment are antiquated in type, but many also are, within the limits of the individualistic theory of knowledge, quite unanswerable.

They include high-drama, suspense-filled cliffhangers and raw emotion.

A period of suspense followed.

The true philosopher, therefore, is not the Pyrrhonist, trying to maintain an impossible equilibrium or suspense of judgment, but the Academic, yielding gracefully to the impressions or maxims which he finds, as matter of fact, to have most sway over himself.

After an anarchic period of suspense, lasting from 1546 to 1561, during which Sweden secured Esthonia, while Ivan the Terrible fearlessly ravaged Livonia, in the hope of making it valueless to any other potentate, Sigismund II.

The film succeeds not only in terms of action and suspense but as cautionary fable, historical allegory, social satire and moral disquisition.

At each of the great festivals, which to please him were for once crowded into a single year, he entered in regular form for the various competitions, scrupulously conformed to the tradition and rules of the arena, and awaited in nervous suspense the verdict of the umpires.

The pace may be a little languid at times, but the film never lost my interest and is fairly suspenseful throughout.

Synonyms:

uncertainty, doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, dubiety, doubt,

Antonyms:

predictability, probability, believe, trust, certainty,