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
The great Argento films were never just about titillation and blood-spatter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
When he shaved his signature mustache in 2001 — “on a whim,” he said — his viewership erupted in titillation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020
Every one has heard of tickling trout: the tench is almost equally amenable to titillation.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
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