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
It wasn’t until after the show that I read May’s program note about “exposing the titillation of postmodernism’s detached aesthetics and its unbearable absurdity.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2023
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
Lately, however, Howard’s bare-knuckled methods drew more than titillation and newsstand sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Men who put their heads between lions' jaws generally are, for the titillation of a straggling hair might produce a cough that would prove tragical.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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