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
But unlike that movie, which wobbled uncomfortably between titillation and moral panic, Bravo’s version of King’s story is sure-footed, her vision clear-eyed and genuinely risk-taking.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
Shepperd’s actions triggered conflicting feelings: titillation, shame, guilt, fear and confusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2021
I saw that all activity, all the pleasant palpitation and titillation in the life of Nature and of Man, merely means that one living thing is feeding upon or is feeding another.
From Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban
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