tantalization
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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
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What barbarous tantalization to compel them to thirst in the midst of the waters of abundance!
This gave them a little peep into the heavens, but was really only a tantalization.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert
It is not that Nature can become ever less lovely to your sight; but that the tantalization of her dangerous beauty, which you may enjoy only at a safe distance, exasperates at last.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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 Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)