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 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
Calaway is determined, too, to avoid cashing in as a gimmick, wheeled out as a past-his-prime spectacle for the titillation of crowds.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2020
Then there’s what you’re doing as a larger member of the group making the show, where you’re trying to tell the story appropriately so it doesn’t become a kind of macabre titillation event.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
When an image changes place in the idea, it produces a titillation equal to that which would be produced in the order of material things.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
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