tantalization
Example Sentences
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Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their honors were too short-lived, and too circumscribed, to be much more than a lively tantalization, to be remembered with disgust by those who had worn them.
From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, have been mistaken for malevolence.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
It must not be so crushing as to be a positive humiliation, nor must it be by so fine a margin as to constitute itself a tantalization.
From Mushrooms on the Moor by Frank Boreham
This Mr. Dudley was an early victim of the patent laws, which, to this day, have proved to be for the benefit of lawyers and officials, and the tantalization of true inventors and discoverers.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
