How to craft sentences for suspensiveness

1. Extending the noun phrase of the sentence. This creates a sense of emphasis on the subject which adds drama to the sentence.

Mark Owen, the impish, boyish, playful Mark Owen, is no longer the most popular member of the band. (Notice that the appositive doesn't add much new information but really emphasizes the subject.)

2. Concealing the content of the sentence in a clause after a simple sentence structure. Orwell does this, and it's very easy to do to any sentence. It creates a sense of detachment and perhaps authority.

It is notable that Mark Owen, who was once the fans' favorite, is no longer the center of attention. (The actual independent clause doesn't say much: it is notable. This creates a sense that the main statement is assumed or known to be true.)

3. Making the object of the sentence the subject. To do this you have to make the object into a noun phrase.

The relative unpopularity of Mark Owen stands in stark contast with his former status as the fans' favorite. (Note how authoritative that sounds. It also has a built-in suspensive effect.)

4. Typical sentence structure.

Once the favorite of Take That's mostly female fanbase, Mark Owen is now relegated to the sidelines. (Now, it's not that you should never use this plain sentence structure, but... It is extremely predictable, since the opening adverbial clause forecasts what's coming next.)

5. Picking a structure that dramatizes your content. So, in this case, the content is Mark Owen's disastrous drop in popularity. Let's try a paratactic compound sentence with a suspensive structure.

Mark Owen, the impish one, the playful one, known for his cheeky grin, was beloved of Take That's hysterical fans all over the world; his relative unpopularity is only one of the many changes brought by the band's remarkable comeback. (This has some drama, right? The extended noun phrase of the first part tells the beginning of the story with great emphasis. The asyndetic paratactic sentence structure adds an extra suspensiveness, since no connecting word gives us a hint as to what's coming. The second part could have been written: "After their comeback, Owen lost his popularity." Instead, for added drama, it puts the object first, nominalizing it: "his relative unpopularity." This adds a further dose of suspensiveness.)

6. Varying sentence types within a paragraph.

Each member of Take That, Europe's most popular boy band of the 1990s, enjoyed a strong following among the band's mostly-female fanbase. It would hardly be controversial, however, to say that pint-sized Mark Owen was the best-loved member. His impish quality, cheeky grin, and unpredictable antics won him a following even greater than that of conventionally handsome Jason Orage. Fast forward about ten years or so. The band went on hiatus, lost a highly visible member, aged physically, matured musically. Their fans were now grown women looking for a nostalgia trip. The seasoned and dignified figure of songwriter Gary Barlow, once the 'ugly' one, won him applause as the band's new sex symbol. The success of 'Shine,' Owen's first recorded composition, more than compensated for the loss of his popularity. As the title of their second album has it, 'Everything Changes.'

Note that relatively few of these sentences has a person doing something.