With the rise of slick, titillatingly violent cartoons in the 1970s, Gumby's popularity waned. |
For Lockhart the pruriency seems to come from not only an improper physicality titillatingly described but also a gross, non-ethereal immediacy. |
Yet what is most astonishing about our age is not the experts' desire to correct our view of a maligned historical figure but what we have made of that figure in his most titillatingly debased form. |
Fifty-four sounds titillatingly high when it refers to the number of newly discovered planets that are potentially habitable. |