“Fifty-four sounds titillatingly high when it refers to the number of newly discovered planets that are potentially habitable.”

“With the rise of slick, titillatingly violent cartoons in the 1970s, Gumby's popularity waned.”

“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.”