thriller
thriller
Definition
thriller (t̸hril′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that thrills
- a suspenseful novel, play, film, etc.
- Chiefly Brit. such a novel, film, etc. dealing with crime and detection
thriller
Usage Examples
Preposition: with
- twist: Yes it's just another by the numbers thriller with no new twists.
Converse of object
- crack: Minority Report, his first film with his new best mate Steven Spielberg, was a cracking science fiction thriller.
- pace: A fast paced thriller with a bit of a message thrown in.
- absorb: The book is both a love story and a tense and absorbing thriller.
Adjective modifier
- gripping: The Wind Singer - William Nicholson ( £ 5.99 ): for older readers, a gripping thriller.
- supernatural: For instance, Stir of Echoes was a solid supernatural thriller which was wrongly branded a Sixth Sense clone.
- taut: Ultimately 16 Blocks is a taut little thriller that goes the distance.
- psychological: Most recently he starred in ITV's two-part psychological thriller, ' Donovan ' .
- fast-paced: The TV star, due to give birth next March, plays the lead in fast-paced Northern crime thriller Blue Murder.
- tense: What follows is a tense, brutal thriller that leaves you questioning whether Harris's results justify his means.
Modifies a noun
- serial: Such a situation is found in the new six-part Sunday thriller serial, The Sleeper, which begins tonight.
- genre: He has come from nowhere to being one of the thriller genre 's biggest stars.
- writer: I'll even quote what it says on the back cover ' Other thriller writers talk the talk.
- novel: Adrian Flanagan - new thriller novel, Cobra Adrian Flanagan, english author of the thriller novel Cobra about modern day piracy.
Noun used with modifier
- suspense: Well, Brown weaves them into a modern-day suspense thriller about attempts to discover or destroy evidence of our " true " history.
- sci-fi: You can direct your friends in a sci-fi thriller, animate your own cartoon, or keep a video diary.
- spy: He played three different roles in the third series of the spy thriller series Danger Man.
- noir: They first came to prominence some 20 years ago, with their dark noir thriller, Blood Simple.
- espionage: Krasnoyarsk Surely worthy of the opening chapter of a cold war espionage thriller.
- science-fiction: Seeking finance & company associations, eg product placements for original science-fiction thriller.
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