tantalizing
Speech parts
1. tantalizing - Noun
2. tantalizing - Adjective
3. tantalizing - Verb
5. tantalizing - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Tantalize
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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
What I believe is that we're only just beginning to understand the incredible capacity of human beings, that we can become something unrecognizable, that we can have true freedom, not some tantalizing emblem forever out of reach. Not weary compromise and nagging fear.
Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.
a tantalizing aroma