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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

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

Distinguished mostly by being the rare “Turn” adaptation in a contemporary setting, “In a Dark Place” makes bargain bin creative choices that appear to be attempts at titillation but are tasteless in execution.

From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2020

They would stand on the shore and look with horror, which yet gave somehow a pleasant titillation to their youthful spirits, at this water which bore such an evil name.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins