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

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

There are few things more difficult to bear than what Scotch people so expressively term “tig-tire,” or excessive tantalization.

From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon

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 Boreham, Frank