Titillation

titillation (noun) -

titillate (verb)

the obsessive unrelenting reporting of the crime was an excuse for titillation
the clear purpose of extensive coverage was titillation

Victorian broadsheet titillation
they feel it is more important to offer titillation and innuendo in an effort to sell newspapers and advertising

purely matters of titillation that are likely to continue to get increasing air time

the American public is interested in titillation
titillation abounds in our culture. Fashion, TV, books, music and movies

titillation and glamour
this style ends up suggesting only titillation and glamour

the titillation of taboo
truly shocking titillation
panting maniacs looking for titillating stuff
prurient titillation
literary titillation
if you're looking for titillation, look elsewhere

flirtation and titillation
distracting and pointless adolescent flirtation and titillation

titillation appeal
there was a titillation attraction in there somewhere
the potential for excitement, for titillation, and even for seduction by the overwhelmingly powerful imagery

to the disgust or titillation of viewers, the sports announcer meticulously described the blood and gore of the boxing match

two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear
a dish for jaded palates that need some titillation

nasal titillation is important in pair bonding among certain species

as ratings have shown, Americans have a higher and higher degree of titillation. Even serious journalists, if they want to get a $ 300,000 or $400,000....

however, books don't provide the titillation available at newsstands and video rentals
the rag prefers to employ titillation rather than scrutiny; as a result, its political coverage produces trivialization
in the competition for titillation...
done only for personal titillation

love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation
real love, that transcended the mere titillation he felt for her
education, not titillation, is the goal
distracting and pointless adolescent flirtation and titillation
titillation for the idle masses?

all sacrificed in the quest for titillation
the potential for titillation

as the air rushes out, we experience those by-now-familiar sensations -- curiosity, titillation, disappointment and ultimately exhaustion.
the only emotions this scene made me feel were a mild titillation and an urge to snatch away that towel myself

if freedom is slavery, then what is titillation? Are you following me? What is amusement? C'm on, think.

So she goes with him expecting the titillation of disgust, but instead here's this very precise little orchestra playing music a...
Without the titillation of ghoulish voyeurism where would we be?

at the first inkling of a realization, there is little to distinguish titillation from dread

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Example sentences:

* Nevertheless, the test of interest for the popular newspapers seems whether such a case has the potential for titillation rather than an outcry at such wickedness.

* Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time, the prescribed structures, instrumental combinations, harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child, and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite, two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear.

* Jaded palates need some titillation and this is the very dish they should try.

* In the competition for titillation Britain put her best bust forward in the equally platinum, equally pneumatic person of Diana Dors (37-;24-;35, as the newspapers always labelled her).

* The obsessive unrelenting reporting of the crime was an excuse for titillation and also misleads women as to how to avoid the crime.

* It is one where the clear purpose of extensive coverage was titillation.

* Was she the only person in the world who felt that love was too precious a commodity to cheapen by offering it as a stake in a game where the prize was emotional titillation?

* What he felt for Petula must be real love, that transcended the mere titillation he felt for her.

* THERE is a curious idea, a remnant of Victorian broadsheet titillation, echoed today by the popular press and in the pontifications of chief police officers, that police work is about `;crime-fighting'.

* Krimsky's labours in the archives adds a voyeuristic titillation as people are quoted directly, sometimes saying things they might wish to forget.

* Dr Glenn Wilson [a zoologist?], senior lecturer in psychology at the University of London, says nasal titillation is important in pair bonding.

* Climbing has to be more than a race for E points, pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected, sweaty limestone, or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel, studded with artificial holds, floodlit for a `;quick-fox'; titillation of the idle masses.

* This is all about flirtation and titillation, analyses Richard.

* When writing on this subject the reputations of others who may not have been so willing to be identified are sacrificed in the quest for titillation.

* The sadism, the male brutality, the colourful oppression of the poor, runs all to close to titillation.

* Like the great fashion photographer Helmut Newton before her, Rheims has experimented with those visual devices which seem to suggest pornography and danger, but which ends up suggesting only titillation and glamour.

* Louisa found her cousin's whimpers more unnerving than the story itself, but Henry, older, shrewder, discerned an encouraging element of titillation in Laetitia's fear.

* And of course, the sheer sadistic titillation of A Clockwork Orange or Julie Christie impregnated by a power mad computer in Demon Seed.

Posted by Jon Fernquest at 10:23 AM