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

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

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 Poe, Edgar Allan

Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, be mistaken for malevolence.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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