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
It wasn’t until after the show that I read May’s program note about “exposing the titillation of postmodernism’s detached aesthetics and its unbearable absurdity.”
From New York Times • May 8, 2023
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
The patients frequently vomit at the same time from the disagreeable titillation of blood about the fauces; and are thence liable to believe, that the blood is rejected from the stomach.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus