titillation

Example Sentences

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These patchwork visions have a restrained, contemplative air that carefully weighs the seriousness of their themes without ever dipping into melodrama or titillation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The great Argento films were never just about titillation and blood-spatter.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

The hysteria about drag queens — who may be neither gay nor transgender, and whose performances often tend toward parody rather than titillation — has been particularly intense.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022

Distinguished mostly by being the rare “Turn” adaptation in a contemporary setting, “In a Dark Place” makes bargain bin creative choices that appear to be attempts at titillation but are tasteless in execution.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2020

Well, what is love but just the titillation produced by this image imprinted on your flesh, just as the pleasure of a pinch is the effect of a titillation of the nerves in the nose?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay