Normal and Suspenseful

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Normal adjective - Being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events.

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Suspenseful is an antonym for normal.

Nearby Words: normalize, norm, normalise, normally, normality

Suspenseful adjective - (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.

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Normal is an antonym for suspenseful in exciting topic.

While the original storyboards had tense music and suspenseful camera angles cluing the audience in that a murder was about to happen, Hitchcock chose to shoot it with no music and a completely normal angle of Arbogast walking up the staircase before Norman suddenly pops out and stabs him.

Source: Nothing Is Scarier

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