tantalize

I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

To tantalize and tease prospective viewers, the marketing team behind “Babygirl” has leaned all the way in, emphasizing the movie’s Christmas Day release in promotional materials that demand audiences “get everything you want” this holiday.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2024

No matter the answer, Gef has continued to vex and tantalize for decades.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 19, 2023

The words and beats tantalize the imagination and unleash emotions that have, for so many people, been stifled: joy, abandon.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

The dense brown forest on either side never seemed to vary, and ahead there was only a new bend in the river to tantalize her.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The possibility tantalizes the philosopher, but even more so the astronomer: planets around red dwarfs are easier to find than around any other type of star.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2023

The idea of an “all-female, gender-fluid, disability forward” staging of “Richard III” — as New York Classical Theater describes its new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy about the monstrously degenerate Plantagenet king — tantalizes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

As for online dating itself, that's even worse because it tantalizes with the promise of connection, but in order to stay in business, the algorithm for these apps are designed to be ineffective.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2020

But the performance that perhaps most tantalizes is Dianne Wiest as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” a play that recognizes no distinction between comedy and tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

The atom provides an organizing principle for modern physics—and it tantalizes us with the prospect of controlling matter and energy.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

A multiday music festival on the beach is a SoCal dream that has tantalized and vexed concert promoters for generations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

She kept fans tantalized with rumors that a penchant for long-sleeved shirts in her later years concealed two full sleeves of tattoos.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

But they are tantalized by possibilities beyond the game.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

But it can still lay claim to being a flagship roller coaster, one with enough mechanical and storytelling hitches to give it a tantalizing oddness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Even if the bipartisan backlash against the AI boom slows the forecast pace of growth, data centers offer a tantalizing sales prospect for insurers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Parton did not offer specifics about how such arrangements could work, or how her estate would handle the rights issues, but it offers the tantalizing prospect of Parton tunes for years to come.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

That only made Coca-Cola and 7-Up more tantalizing to my siblings and me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Each evening’s fare was more tempting and tantalizing than the last.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby