(v. t.) To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
(2) Tantalizing preliminary data suggest that GH therapy has a role in the management of short, poorly growing children with other causes for their growth failure.
(3) The structural basis underlying a frequently occurring form of chromosome size polymorphism is now understood and other polymorphisms are providing tantalizing clues to the mechanisms underlying drug resistance.
(4) Although a similar accuracy to other approaches (utilizing a mean-square error) is achieved using this new measure, the accuracy on the training set is significantly and tantalizingly higher, even though the number of adjustable parameters remains the same.
(5) This is all the more tantalizing given the proposed structure of this receptor which, like all other G protein-coupled receptors, is thought to have the putative transmembrane helices forming a bundle-like structure in the plasma membrane.
(6) Geithner has tantalizing snippets of self-awareness – “I must have sounded like a bank lobbyist when opposing financial reform ”.
(7) Although the isoquinoline hypothesis has stimulated and even tantalized the scientific inquiry of a small number of investigators, it has been an area of widespread controversy.
(8) The role of adjuvant therapy is not yet established despite tantalizing biologic effects documented in their trials.
(9) Phospholipid turnover is one "panel" in the islet; however, an obligate role for phospholipase activation in glucose-induced insulin secretion is not yet rigorously established, despite tantalizing, inferential evidence.
(10) For several decades a tantalizing goal for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma has been the development of a topically active carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
(11) The left side of the infield is once again tantalizing Beltran but he is swinging away here.
(12) Currently, there is no evidence in humans that converting enzyme inhibitors are superior to alternative antihypertensive agents in retarding progression, but tantalizing preliminary evidence on this has been reported in nondiabetic patients with renal failure.
(13) There are tantalizing indications that restricting dietary intake may improve human health and longevity.
(14) I know scientists have got to whet the appetite for future publications, but this is just too tantalizing.
(15) Two instruments, one of Russian origin, using very fine Tantale clips, permit one to carry out easily mechanical suture during operations on the digestive tract.
(16) Several tantalizing clues have been extracted from studies of the molecular pathogenesis, immunology, and biochemistry of endometriosis.
(17) The question of the existence of a complex class of poly(A)- brain mRNAs is particularly tantalizing in light of the heterogeneity of brain cells and the possibility that the stability of these poly(A)- mRNAs might vary with changes in synaptic function, changing hormonal stimulation or with other modulations of neuronal function.
(18) Our proposition that parkinsonian akinesia could be attributable to an impairment in the motor preparatory process therefore remains a tantalizing possibility.
(19) For the future there is the tantalizing promise that once the principles of coordination are understood, we can move on to the more intriguing questions of how a certain 'toss of the head' and 'look in the eye' not only transfer gaze but can also be so meaningful.
(20) The potential has remained tantalizing by the occasional clinical success, at least in depressor terms, of the early ganglionic blocking agents.
Tantamount
Definition:
(a.) Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
(v. i.) To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studying the epidemiology of cardiovascular ageing is tantamount to determining the part played by prevention in these diseases.
(2) It’s tantamount to a tax on the poorest of the poor.
(3) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(4) So that approach is tantamount … to pouring gasoline on the fire.” Carter stopped short of demanding an end to the airstrikes, suggesting it was not too late for Russia to change its position.
(5) "In my opinion, what Graber has done, to be a straight man calling himself a lesbian, is tantamount to impersonating an entire community."
(6) In what is tantamount to artistic license, performance of song, poetry, and dance containing sexual elements or references that would be prohibited in other contexts is constituted as acceptable behavior.
(7) But long-standing believers in Co-operative ideals think his proposals are tantamount to wanting to turn the Co-op into a standard-issue PLC, and have been rattled by the sceptical noises he has made about the group's treasured social goals and political aspects.
(8) No one denies that it hurt when Kurt Lauk, the president of the economic council of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, pronounced this week that putting Cyprus at the helm of the EU was tantamount to allowing "the dog … to be put in charge of the supply of sausages".
(9) The Bundesbank has argued that a bond-buying programme would be tantamount to direct financing of governments, which is proscribed by the ECB's statutes.
(10) Even thinking of increasing energy costs, for example, is tantamount to political suicide.
(11) Absence of a cure is not tantamount to having nothing more to offer.
(12) When Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes refused to allow the makers of the film Sylvia to use her mother's poetry, some were outraged: "She claimed in an article on Britain's National Poetry Day that 'poetry is for everyone', only to deny access to her mother's words a year later when approached by the Sylvia film-makers," fumed one novelist, as though Frieda Hughes's discomfort at Gwyneth Paltrow re-enacting her mother's suicide was tantamount to censorship.
(13) For many Israelis, identifying human-rights violations by the Israeli military, but not its enemies, was tantamount to treason.
(14) I in good conscience cannot vote for somebody that supports interventionist wars and supports what Hillary Clinton supports, and I will vote for Jill Stein.” Sanders, some Clinton supporters – and Trump himself – have argued that casting a ballot for the Green party is tantamount to helping the Republican candidate.
(15) Corporate tax dodging is then tantamount to upward redistribution .
(16) He said the presence of Chinese fishery patrol boats in the area was tantamount to a "declaration of war" against Japan.
(17) Most subjects studied were not intending telling the child about his true origin; because disclosure would be tantamount to transgressing twice over the laws of paternity and the rules against Oedipus behaviour.
(18) The terms attached to the bailout programmes propping up the Greek economy are tantamount to “ fiscal waterboarding ” he says.
(19) A related plan to overhaul asylum rules was also running into trouble just hours after it was unveiled on Wednesday, as central European countries denounced the measures as ridiculous and tantamount to blackmail.
(20) "If the HPSCI leadership withheld a document, intended by the administration for release to non-committee members – a document that could have led to a different outcome when the Patriot Act was reauthorized in 2011 – this is tantamount to subversion of the democratic process," said Bea Edwards, the executive director of the Government Accountability Project.