titillation
Example Sentences
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These patchwork visions have a restrained, contemplative air that carefully weighs the seriousness of their themes without ever dipping into melodrama or titillation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It wasn’t until after the show that I read May’s program note about “exposing the titillation of postmodernism’s detached aesthetics and its unbearable absurdity.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
When he shaved his signature mustache in 2001 — “on a whim,” he said — his viewership erupted in titillation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020
Lately, however, Howard’s bare-knuckled methods drew more than titillation and newsstand sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
His main quarrel with it arose, however, from the obstinacy with which English poets clung to “the childish titillation of rhyming.”
From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd
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