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

Their honors were too short-lived, and too circumscribed, to be much more than a lively tantalization, to be remembered with disgust by those who had worn them.

From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)

Wonderment as to the next move partook less of deep anxiety than of the tantalization of guessing at a riddle with the answer always just eluding you.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

The main secret of Bulwer then reveals itself, like that of flirtation, to reside in the art of tantalization.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various