titillating

Example Sentences

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What would “White Lotus” be without its titillating score and those warbled “ooh-loo-loo-loo’s?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

I acknowledge that chaos is titillating, and change can be exciting, and I understand the lure of joining an elite conference and what that can mean as far as prestige and visibility.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

Most of the pleasure of “Nr. 10” comes in the building tension and titillating mystery of its setup, and the early moments as it begins to pull the rug out from under us.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

And, as happened with the Satanic panic, the titillating but misleading stories completely flip reality on its head.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2021

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall