0 in a way that makes you feel excited and hope that you might get or do something, especially when this does not in fact happen:
The disappointment wouldn't weigh so heavily if the promise of victory hadn't swirled so tantalizingly close.
Opening my eyes, I found his face just above my own, his lips so tantalizingly near I could have kissed him with the barest of efforts.
The resulting dishes are tantalizingly familiar yet enticingly exotic.
Her quality of being perpetually and tantalizingly yet-to-be-possessed provokes desire in the onlooker and manages that !
Until further historical evidence emerges, such experiences remain tantalizingly out of reach.
Some of the themes tantalizingly invoked here are more fully explicated elsewhere, while the sometimes formidable formulations of his more ambitious books are crisply recapitulated.
And the art of governance is tantalizingly elusive, resistant to scientific analysis.
