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

He remembers being disturbed by the way adults around him discussed the 1973 film, with a mix of disgust and titillation, like a ghost story.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

But unlike that movie, which wobbled uncomfortably between titillation and moral panic, Bravo’s version of King’s story is sure-footed, her vision clear-eyed and genuinely risk-taking.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

His main quarrel with it arose, however, from the obstinacy with which English poets clung to “the childish titillation of rhyming.”

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert