Sentence examples for tantalizing from inspiring English sources

Congress instead should assess its own deep failures, asking why for example Rahul Gandhi faced such a tough fight in his own constituency in Amethi.Otherwise the results will prove tantalizing for a host of micro reasons.

Generalizations of the above limited accomplishments are tantalizing to mathematicians.

The congruent differences between the Ju forms for 'drink' and 'laugh' on the one hand and the Khoe/!Xóõ forms on the other are intriguing, but, because they fail to generalize, they remain merely tantalizing.

Despite the controversial authenticity and dates of ancient Chinese written sources, a combined study of them produces tantalizing images of courtly parties, military parades, and folk festivals, but it does not provide a single note of music.

There was, however, one tantalizing possible point of contact.

What is known, however, is tantalizing to the scholar, for at Lagoa Santa, in Minas Gerais, the bones of a human being have been linked with a mammoth slaughtered for food as early as 10,000 bc; and pottery vessels have been discovered attesting to a remarkably advanced civilization in the Amazon lowlands perhaps as early as ad 1000.

Any match up in this division is tantalizing at the moment, and these two athletes are both major players.

They, too, in committing a poem to memory, underwent a predictable gamut of frustrations: the pursuit of stubbornly elusive phrases, the inner hammering of rote repetition, tantalizing tip-of-the-tongue stammerings, confident forward marches that finish in an abrupt amnesiac's cul-de-sac.