tantalize

Critics say he’s winging it, exaggerating wishes into declarations, tantalized by the bauble of a Nobel.

Every now and then, there were flashes of his tantalizing potential.

At that point, Sasaki had lost his tantalizing velocity, hardly even threatening 100 mph since his adrenaline-fueled debut in Tokyo back in March.

It’s a number that’s both tantalizing and fraught, depending on your political perspective.

Baldwin held these romantic relationships in tantalizing suspension, his love affairs caught between the poles of desire and intimacy, the heat of passion and long-term commitment.