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1 Narrated by a 16-year-old girl in Vermont, Bohjalian’s suspenseful and provocative novel pushes some hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction.

2 Sleek, suspenseful and thoroughly surprising, “Workforce” unfolds in its first half as a gritty Kafkaesque drama about exploited workers.

3 But the Adagio was taut and suspenseful, the final Allegro sleek and purposeful.

4 The atmosphere is “CBS Radio Mystery Theater” — Suilebhan has a suspenseful way of speaking, and the lighting is decidedly low — yet the content is literary theory.

5 This time, however, her interpretation had urgency, and the naturally heroic scale of her dancing became suspenseful.

6 As on the page, the screen "Wolf Hall" — streamlined, even at six hours — is both stately and fast-moving, exceedingly still yet highly suspenseful.

7 Not exactly, but the whole bordering-on-believable novel is beautifully modulated and terrifically suspenseful.

8 In his review for The Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film is “a modest and effectively executed urban thriller, suspenseful and entertaining in its clammy, overwrought way.”

9 The problem is that this suspenseful Reagan-era story of a Southern sheriff haunted by a violent act in his past seems most believable as the invention of a well-intentioned author writing in 2021.

10 “It’s a joy to encounter a suspenseful book whose turns lurk, rather than lumber, around the corner,” Sarah Lyall writers in her thrillers roundup.

11 The dour “McCanick” banks way too much on what it is not telling us, making for a movie that thinks it’s being cryptically suspenseful but is really just annoying.

12 The music of this movement begins softly and seductively, before taking on a suspenseful tinge.

13 “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes has said that after the Obama administration ended and the more unpredictable Trump administration took over in 2017, the appetite for the show’s suspenseful story lines about turmoil in Washington waned.

14 So “Killing Kennedy” has a momentum problem: it is lively, but not innately suspenseful.

15 The suspenseful chapters of recent weeks were still to come: American arrested in Russia, charged as a spy.

16 They moved easily around the space; the distance between them stayed suspenseful.

17 Inspired, offbeat casting drives the gory but not very suspenseful “Cold in July,” which stars Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson as three unlikely amigos banding against evil.

18 “Remembrance” is not a book of suspenseful plot twists and shocking revelations.

19 Thriller writers have a knack for picking settings that are inherently suspenseful.

20 If his experiences then had been carefully recorded, it would undoubtedly have made a suspenseful and moving book.

若是把他所经历的事实记录下来, 那就是一部充满着大智大勇,惊心动魄的小说.

1 焦虑的

hung up wound up anxious tense distressed uneasy oppressed strained frayed distracted hunted angsty stressed out disconcerted strung up tensed up

2 焦虑

hung up wound up stressful anxious tense distressed uneasy oppressed strained frayed distracted hunted angsty stressed out disconcerted strung up nervously anxiety tension fuss suspense agitation angst nervousness hang-up uneasiness dysphoria disquiet concern worry stress distress disturb oppress agitate disconcert tensed up be get into a state be in into a state be get into a lather be in into a lather tear your hair out weigh down

3 充满悬念的

nail-biting Hitchcockian

4 扣人心弦的

electric

5 悬疑的

nail-biting

6 犹豫不决的

dubious shrinking waver indecisive willy-nilly irresolute on-again-off-again transigent

7 犹豫不决

dubious shrinking waver indecisive willy-nilly irresolute on-again-off-again transigent poise indecision indeterminacy vacillation indetermination hang float dither haver

8 悬疑

nail-biting suspensively suspense

9 充满紧张的

stressful

10 担心

concerned nervous concerning worried stressful anxious fearful uneasy apprehensive bothered panicky stressed out perturbed stressy care concern worry anxiety suspense apprehension perturbation disquiet fear stress bug bother dread perturb have on your mind lose sleep about lose sleep over tremble to think get in a sweat concern yourself

11 焦急不安的

stewed

12 担心的

concerned nervous concerning worried anxious fearful uneasy apprehensive bothered panicky stressed out perturbed stressy

13 热切的

dear eager

14 中止

suspensory suspensive stop break suspension pause suspense stoppage truce intermission discontinuance abeyance stopping letup cesser stay suspend scrub discontinue abate intermit intercept disengage adjourn pretermit shut-off

15 中止的

suspensory suspensive