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The Centralian Advocate was there and reported with titillating colour: "Defence lawyers had quiet words with the parents of the men, while a row of pretty young things, with painted nails and highlights in their hair, shared nervous giggles as they waited for the court to open… Mr Ryder's family slipped in the back.
Details of borrowing from regular discount-window and open-market operations will be published with a two year lag.The details are interesting, even titillating , but not terribly surprising.
Brilliant aperçus, memorable quotations and titillating gossip fill his notes.Discussing Richard Nixon's practice of secretly taping conversations, Schlesinger, as a person, thinks it a poor idea but as a historian regards it as a fine way to enrich the record.
But the world's biggest retailer will doubtless continue to sell guns, while barring the sale of mildly titillating magazines or CDs with what it deems offensive lyrics.Problems loomInflation in the euro area inched up to 2% for the year to June; and the European Commission said growth was unlikely to meet modest forecasts made three months ago as the strong euro hits exports.
A bigger, if less titillating , danger for Mr Berlusconi and the government will come this autumn when a case in which he has already been convicted of tax fraud is due to enter its final phase.
Rather, they are repulsively titillating , as if she is seizing skeletons from the country's closet and making them dance.In this section A troubled union In or out?
His solo show at the Larry Gagosian gallery in Manhattan last summer, where his works were priced at $100,000-$100,000-$1.6mt before it even opened.Mr Murakami argues that the Japanese fixation with violent comic books, titillating plastic figurines and super-cute creatures, such as Hello Kitty, is a product of the country's sense of impotence following the second world war.
In this context, Page 3 can scarcely be titillating for anyone over the age of 13.
In particular, they object to the FCC's rules about "fleeting expletives" (isolated, and in many cases, unscripted swearing) and brief glimpses of titillating body parts, which are subject to heavy fines.
It's true that there is something vaguely titillating about browsing in an atmosphere where the temptations are to purchase and own, not simply borrow and read.
Irrational fear, even the pleasantly titillating kind embodied by the hammiest of Hammer horrors, is as much a part of the experience of being human as reason.
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The primary grammatical function of "titillating" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe something that causes pleasant excitement or arousal. This is supported by Ludwig's identification of "titillating" as an adjective and by the numerous examples where it modifies nouns like "gossip", "details", and "notions".
Expression frequency: Very common
