| 单词 | tantalizingly |
| 例句 | Huckleberry Finn they saved for me until the third grade, tantalizingly holding it back as if it contained the very secrets of life. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They gazed at each other; Harry felt that the answer was dangling invisibly in the air above them, tantalizingly close. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The cat listened carefully, although sometimes he lost patience with the tutoring and began to bite at the tantalizingly moving pen. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a Mercator girl in a tantalizingly flimsy dress eyeing me from the door leading to the crowded garden. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Or, tantalizingly, It was toilet cleaner she used. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They scurried tantalizingly up and down the trunk, heedless of any danger—so close, yet just out of reach— “Easy, children,” Penelope soothed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That practical difficulty probably explains the tantalizingly early appearance of some technologies, followed by a long delay in their further development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They are not just tiny and swift but also often tantalizingly evanescent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She could hear a man’s voice across the water, but the fog rolled tantalizingly between her and the ship. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The delicious smell of baking salmon wafted tantalizingly in their direction. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The question of authorship within restaurants remains tantalizingly, or politely, open; the filmmakers fabricate suspense around the relative merits of Mr. Ono’s eldest son, Yoshikazu, whose managerial role is paramount. Movie Review: ?Jiro Dreams of Sushi,? Directed by David Gelb 2012-03-09T01:27:03Z There are almost too many great supporting players in juicy, tantalizingly small parts. Review: Day-Lewis is tremendous in safe `Lincoln' 2012-11-07T00:19:14Z It’s a thriller, not a light comedy of manners — but exactly what sort of thriller it will be is something that the director, Michael Winterbottom, keeps tantalizingly at bay. ‘The Wedding Guest’ Review: On the Run in India 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The status of her sympathies, and of the filmmaker’s, remains tantalizingly enigmatic. Critic?s Notebook: Modest Methods, Big Ambitions 2011-03-22T22:58:03Z There is a tantalizingly dark escape in getting a glimpse of nature that we cannot otherwise see, because we’re always out there ruining the view. The Rise of the Coronavirus Nature Genre 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The chatter can't enter into it too much, even though it may be tantalizingly in your face. How Wilco's Jeff Tweedy became a great American songwriter 2011-09-27T14:01:00Z Residents of the Bleecker Street and Houston Street buildings to the north and south overlook the open space from back windows and balconies, but only tantalizingly; they don’t have access to the grounds. What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z In the winter, watch for 30-ton gray whales or humpbacks that breach tantalizingly close to shore. Head to La Paz rather than overdeveloped Los Cabos for the real Baja California Sur 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z But then so does much else about this singular artist and his tantalizingly enigmatic oeuvre. Albert York Paintings at Matthew Marks 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The imitation is perfect, practically perfect, almost perfect–so tantalizingly close to perfect that it’s maddening, because in the end, she can never get past the fact that it’s not him. Netflix, Full House, and the Temptations of Nostalgia 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The status of the cat remains tantalizingly uncertain. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z The show’s scale, too, is that of a little boy for whom the world looms dauntingly and tantalizingly large, where grown-ups appear as giants who are not entirely real. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Near the end, after Billy has been hanged for killing Claggart, the sailors come together in a restive growl, murmuring and groaning as they move tantalizingly close to mutiny. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z It’s one of nature’s masterpieces, dangling tantalizingly in the jungle. Pursuits: A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit 2013-12-03T18:33:25Z The group’s latest album presses into tantalizingly early repertoire from around the turn of the 15th century. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Such dreaming seems especially and tantalizingly tangible after a summer in which Sacha Baron Cohen’s Showtime series “Who Is America?” has resulted in the resignation of one government official. Omarosa won’t save us from Trump: Stop hitching your hope to the stars 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z He also mailed a bottle to Charlie Sheen, who never tasted it because it was stolen from his front porch, probably because it was tantalizingly labeled “Top Secret,” so O’Neill sent another. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This hot sauce is a killer 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Like all compelling conspiracy theories, Trainor’s includes tantalizingly suggestive facts — like the “little old ladies.” Moon-landing conspiracy theorists aren’t all the same. Meet some from the Pacific Northwest. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z As “Mad Men” demands utter secrecy about its plots, she couldn’t disclose Peggy’s ending, but she did say, tantalizingly, “I actually really, really like it and really was very surprised by it.” Elisabeth Moss, a Career Woman, in ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z But whether this memory is truth or illusion Ms. Ziegler leaves tantalizingly unclear. Review: ‘A Delicate Ship’ Plumbs the What-ifs of Love and Heartbreak 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends. Why Did an Accomplished Writer Fall Silent for Two Decades? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Five choreographers contributed to a production tantalizingly titled “Unknown Pleasures.” Review: ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Makes Unfulfilled Promises 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z And before Mr. Ferguson made it to Broadway and became a perennial Shakespeare in the Park performer, he toiled at a gift shop in Times Square, tantalizingly close to the stages he dreamed of walking. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Unleashes His Inner Foodie on Broadway 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Barr, too, plays tantalizingly with what you see and what you don’t. Art in Review: Josephine Halvorson and Burt Barr 2014-02-13T23:01:12Z They’re seated at a restaurant and tantalizingly close to getting some food. Meet the Brothers Osborne, the embodiment of country music’s evolution 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Hence the helpful but tantalizingly brief Beethoven samples offered as part of preconcert remarks by the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, a marvelous ensemble newly formed by principal players from the orchestra. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z But life in the fast lane quickly disappeared as he went from top basketball prospect tantalizingly close to NBA millions to a hardcourt outsider struggling to make a living. 'Lenny Cooke' film is cautionary tale of squandered sports talent 2013-12-20T17:09:35Z He’d already rounded second by the time someone had managed to grab it, and by the time it came infield he’d cleared home plate, leaving us all ecstatic and the championship title tantalizingly close. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z Teetering tantalizingly close to extremes of color, speed and volume, she drew raucous applause. Review: Joyce DiDonato’s ‘Eden’ Takes Root at Carnegie Hall 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Fleming tantalizingly makes a case, and then convincingly exposes it as a fraud. Behold, King Tut, in All His Majesty and Mystery 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z She appears actually to move in a tantalizingly brief video based on a flip-book Picasso made of her from photo-booth pictures. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z But Dr. Watson tantalizingly alludes to a number of others, "for which the world is not yet prepared." 'The House of Silk': a long-buried Sherlock Holmes mystery 2011-12-15T20:52:00Z My daughter and I were at a London restaurant tantalizingly named The Cheese Bar. Is cheese actually addictive? Here's the real science 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z The enjoyment of the moment — one more page/episode/article/bite — turns into 10 or 20 or more because the next is so tantalizingly available. Carolyn Hax: Breaking away from the impulse to binge 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Like "House of the Rising Sun" or "Good Night, Irene," it's now a pop song with a long back story that tantalizingly trickles out before you reach the wellspring. Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts 2013-05-23T13:15:25Z Then bit by bit, the nature of the connections between each story comes tantalizingly into focus. From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z They also managed to suggest, tantalizingly, that when their characters went to bed, the traditional lines between masculine and feminine were destined to be erased. In Alan Rickman the Stage Actor, an Erotic Blend of Desire and Conscience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In both music and lyrics, “Mura Masa” is an album full of approach and evasion, of connections that are tantalizingly tentative. Mura Masa Wrestles Complex Emotions on His Major-Label Debut 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z From the start, with a tantalizingly strange short video element, there was a feeling of slightly manic, ramshackle energy. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z Even the second movement’s opening theme, so often played almost motionlessly, moved with dreamy lightness, and touches of syncopation in the third variation were handled tantalizingly and with a full-bodied transparency. Rodriguez ends International Piano Festival with imaginative takes on classical pieces The film wants to leave the question of its judgment on Joker tantalizingly unresolved, allowing enough room for plausible deniability of any toxic influence even as it puts a bad example on a pedestal. Why so stupid: how Joker is too juvenile to be provocative 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z There they offered up a glimpse, however tantalizingly slim, of the piece behind what they’re billing as an unprecedented fusion of old-school fine art and digital assets. Picasso heirs launch digital art piece to ride ‘crypto’ wave 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z And while the show brings up tantalizingly thorny issues of faith, hypocrisy, sacrifice and selfishness, they are like dark clouds hovering above the story without ever breaking into a full-fledged dramatic storm. Review: In ‘The Price of Thomas Scott,’ Puritanism Prevails 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Like “House of the Rising Sun” or “Good Night, Irene,” it’s now a pop song with a long back story that tantalizingly trickles out before you reach the wellspring. Darius Rucker rides ‘Wagon Wheel’ to top of charts 2013-05-24T19:43:37Z We flirt with the bus driver, wear a red slip under a black dress, let a perfect piece of chocolate melt tantalizingly on our tongue. Why Won’t Anyone Help Me in This Sex Shop? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Song never fulfilled his lifelong dream of revisiting his hometown in North Korea, but because of his show, he came tantalizingly close. Song Hae, Who Survived War and Poverty to Become a Beloved TV Host, Dies at 95 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Seeing Martin Strel crawl up the Hudson River, the new World Trade Center rising tantalizingly above him, a new view of the city — one seen through blue-tinted goggles — suddenly seems not just possible, but inevitable. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z The municipality has shown no intentions of ending legal sex work, but officials have introduced plans to shutter the district windows where workers famously and tantalizingly promote their services. Amsterdam sex workers protest “clean up” of notorious Red Light District 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Between the warm, cerulean water stretching out to the horizon and a backdrop of lush forests filled with palms, a wide swath of powdery sand sits tantalizingly undisturbed. 36 Hours in Phuket, Thailand 2010-03-19T03:19:00Z When I moved to Germany as a correspondent for this paper and realized how tantalizingly close the Alps were, I made a deal with myself: One day a year, no matter what. Skiing the Alps, Making It My Own 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Tonally ambitious and tantalizingly opaque, "The Leftovers" takes the universal trauma of loss and launches it globally. TV Picks: 'The Leftovers,' 'Girl Meets World' and '24: Live Another Day' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z This will strike some readers as counter-intuitive; after all, a book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is supposed to show us how tantalizingly close we are to resolving it, no? 'The Way to the Spring' is a sobering look at Palestinian life and resistance in the West Bank 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z That tantalizingly unfilled promise has inspired a new exhibition, “Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House,” opening Aug. 14 in the Coachman’s House Gallery on the property. Dreaming Up a Summer Idyll for Frederic Edwin Church 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Solos for each dancer were tantalizingly brief, and seemingly endless visions of Osipova whipping her long hair were maddening. A dance 'Tour de Force,' minus the force, at Segerstrom Center 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z They’re very different worlds, Motown dangling tantalizingly in front of Sparkle and her sisters in the remake, while in Harlem 10 years earlier things were more casual. Sparkle: Whitney Houston's Last Picture Show and Jordin Sparks' First 2012-08-16T16:17:09Z The idea of home, you see, is as tantalizingly insubstantial to Mr. Oliver as that of a father. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The result is, at best, a mosaic of moods and a healthy reminder of who built our country; at worst, an excuse to daydream about the tantalizingly close French food court. Review: ‘Harbored’ Spins Immigrants’ Tales, With Liberty in View 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But a question that tantalizingly lingers at the end of “The Butchering Art” — one the author never fully explores — is: Why did Lister get all the credit for making the connection between hygiene and infection? The Story of How Surgeons Cleaned Up Their Act 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The movie unfolds with novelistic pacing for a leisurely but engaging two hours, with Elizabeth and Karen living in the same city but tantalizingly apart. Mother and Child: The Heartache of Adoption 2010-05-07T18:00:00Z The oblique view worked better than one-point at depicting massive, magnificent interiors that tantalizingly suggested spaces beyond what was visible onstage. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z As the world’s oldest photographic archive, Girault’s travel pictures offer a tantalizingly familiar mapping of the world through images, and their modernity pierces sharpest when they picture places razed or renovated in the intervening decades. An 1840s Road Trip, Captured on Lustrous Silver 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z There is exotic and beguiling television all across the world, far away by plane but near enough by satellite, cable or Web to be tantalizingly just out of reach. The TV Watch: ‘Spiral’ and 3 Other French Shows Worth Seeking Out 2013-08-29T21:31:17Z “This central blurriness in the midst of hypercharged description, furthered by a non-chronological structure, is both fascinating and confounding. It is also, I think, exactly the tantalizingly elusive effect Tallent intends.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z They’re repulsive yet tantalizingly tactile, like Chamberlains caught up in a giant vacuum bag. Art Review: ?The Spirit Level,? Group Show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelsea 2012-04-12T21:12:02Z For a true crime addict, the case was tantalizingly complex. Hunting — and Haunted by — a Serial Killer 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z But more recently, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard used a tantalizingly brief excerpt from the symphony’s first movement in his 2014 3-D feature “Goodbye to Language.” Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z With “All Our Reasons,” there’s clear potential for another sustained relationship, and a tantalizingly high bar to clear. New Music: A New Album From Billy Hart and the Soundtrack to ?Once? 2012-03-26T22:44:04Z That world, and the realm of artistic vision that lies tantalizingly beyond, is vividly rendered in "Sacré Bleu." 'Sacr? Bleu': the color of creativity 2012-04-03T23:34:07Z And the tantalizingly murky past of Father Kiobel, Ekong’s parish priest in Nigeria’s Annangland, who is rumored to have served as a child soldier on the Igbo side, is repeatedly hinted at and then dropped. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Maybe because the apps are tantalizingly efficient — or at least maintain an illusion of efficiency. A Local Alternative to the Big Delivery Apps, in Los Angeles 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Especially prescient is a meticulous all-capitals Helvetica rendering of the word EGG, which echoes the earliest work here, from 1963: a drawing that simply and tantalizingly states “SOMETHING.” The Guggenheim Shows First On Kawara Retrospective 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Nor does this book explore some of the knottier questions it so tantalizingly dangles. ‘Don’t Believe a Word,’ a Look at Language and Power (and Why Dolphins Have Accents) 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Their love unspools as a series of missed opportunities and failed hopes; deprived of a happily-ever-after, like the figures on Keats’ Grecian Urn, they remain tantalizingly fixed in mutual pursuit. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, 45 years later: 'Love Letters' loaded with nostalgia 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But the possibility of solace, if not redemption, hangs tantalizingly close in this tough, honest novel by a surprisingly wise young writer. Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The premise of the comedy “Yesterday” is surreal and yet tantalizingly simple: What if you woke up to discover you were the only person who still remembered the music of the Beatles? The Long and Winding Road to ‘Yesterday,’ a Film Full of Beatles Music 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z But it is the wordless visions provided by nature that register as most deeply and tantalizingly Shakespearean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z The question of how the contemporary works were made thrums tantalizingly throughout the show and is deftly addressed in the catalog's technical notes on each artist, written by Getty conservators Marc Harnly and Sarah Freeman. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “You get the sense of myriad other lives unfolding around those described here, all tantalizingly out of sight.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The effect is tantalizingly close to beauty, with all the schematics and textures outlined precisely but not colored in. Music Review: Chapin Sisters? Old-Timey Sound at Living Room 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z And so there was Bono on Friday night, onstage, tantalizingly close, freakishly accessible and, in some moments, perhaps just a tad lost. U2 Returns, in Las Vegas Limbo 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z These discrete paths and viewpoints are ideal vantages for learning about whales, dolphins and other marine mammals, some that linger tantalizingly close to shore. Where the whales are: Discovering marine mammals from shore along the Pacific Coast 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z And, most tantalizingly, just how bronze was the Bronze Buckaroo? Remembering "Bronze Buckaroo" Herb Jeffries, the First Star of Black Western Musicals 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Obviously, Tresch packs quite a lot into his book — there’s even an ingenious deconstruction of the title page of Poe’s nautical novel, the macabre and tantalizingly enigmatic “Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.” Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The ache of both longing and fear to enter a pulsing, human world that feels tantalizingly distant pervaded not only the show’s title song but the production as a whole. Review: For Sondheim’s 90th Birthday, a Collage of Aching Voices 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s about finding that timeless moment when everything seemed tantalizingly, scarily new. Review: With ‘Stranger Things,’ Netflix Delivers an Eerie Nostalgia Fix 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z And it promised, tantalizingly, to flesh out the larger plot with fine detail and an expansive cast. The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Enemy is full of clues pointing to further mysteries; the search for order in this film’s universe remains tantalizingly unfulfilled. REVIEW: In Enemy, Jake Gyllenhaal Sees Double 2014-03-13T17:07:23Z "I set films very often in the past because I can create the illusion more tantalizingly." Woody Allen conjures up illusion for 'Magic in the Moonlight' 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z For the 36 years hosting “Jeopardy!” — an industry record— he has been a nostalgic father figure of sorts, showing up reliably at dinnertime and remaining tantalizingly aloof. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But Mr. Winslow tantalizingly divides his story between two generations: the original main characters, and the 1960s hippies who spawned them. Books of The Times: ‘The Kings of Cool’ by Don Winslow 2012-06-17T19:58:19Z It expands the history of the European avant-garde known as the Situationist International to include Congolese intellectuals, while also recounting the writing of a protest song that emerges tantalizingly as the film progresses. Review: Art for the Planet’s Sake at the Venice Biennale 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z They track clues and race through the night, and try to piece together a puzzle that remains tantalizingly beyond their grasp. ‘The Vast of Night’ Review: There’s More to Fear Than Fear Itself 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z He also seems to offer a tantalizingly brief glimpse into his own personality, suggesting that his powers of empathy, as well as his affinity for dramatic narratives, may lie at the root of his behavior. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Each illustration is tantalizingly enigmatic, made all the more so by the weirdly off-kilter titles and captions. Harris Burdick fans write new tales for drawings 2011-11-05T04:51:58Z With the finale tantalizingly close, Suarez said she was tempted to press on. Mexican broadcaster Televisa grapples with steamy soaps in social-distancing era 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z And it was an era that left a sparse but compelling photographic record, poetic images of hard-living men and prettily posed women who come alive yet remain tantalizingly distant. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'Billy the Kid' 2012-01-10T19:00:45Z It also got me tantalizingly close to the chimerical skin with crunch. How to roast a chicken? The answers are horrifying 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z With Trump, these analogies are tantalizingly close but probably not close enough. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Israel's ambassador to London, Ron Prosor, was due to speak at Hay Tuesday - on a topic listed tantalizingly as "events." Making Hay: British book fest conquers the world 2010-06-02T11:37:00Z The story’s true nature remains tantalizingly out of reach. What Does Everyone See in Jesse Plemons? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z And the low-lying gold-leaf clouds that accentuate the aerial view tantalizingly block out bits of action and add great decorative verve. ‘The Tale of Genji’ and the Art It Inspired 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z "Before Midnight" - The final scene of 2004's "Before Sunset" was so romantic it drove moviegoers crazy - happily crazy - especially because it was so tantalizingly ambiguous. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-05-22T20:03:14Z He got into higher registers and freer shapes — tantalizingly so, sometimes. Azar Lawrence Quintet Focuses on ‘The Seeker’ 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z She had a heightened, almost feverish presence that seemed tantalizingly at odds with the naturalism of film. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z The real Bill Cosby seems to lie tantalizingly out of reach. Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The water-logged Lee was tantalizingly close to Texas but hopes dimmed for relief from the state's worst drought since the 1950s as the storm's forecast track shifted east. Tropical Storm Lee forms in the Gulf 2011-09-03T01:18:00Z The investigators came tantalizingly close to solving her murder, but were stymied by British officials seemingly more intent on protecting foreign prestige and by a lead Chinese investigator who may have been acting duplicitously. Midnight in Peking: Has Paul French Solved a 75-Year-Old Murder? 2012-04-30T15:45:50Z And having an Oprah moment has never seemed more tantalizingly elusive. Who Will Be Oprah?s Last Star? 2010-11-15T19:07:00Z The characters and themes of those rich, subtle, ironic works are tantalizingly close to today’s preoccupations; their tone and attitude is unmistakably ours. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Morgan imagines his way into two secret spaces: the inside of that palace meeting room and - more tantalizingly - the inside of the queen's head, and her heart. Mirren reigns as Britain's queen in 'The Audience' 2013-03-06T12:26:09Z “He’s the perfect combo of boyishly could-go-to-my-school kind of handsome, mixed with dangerously hot and tantalizingly mysterious.” Review | What does passion sound like? How five audiobook actors talk sexy. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z As emotionally agile as the characters she plays, Ms. Wilson can seem simultaneously self-contained and playful, inquisitive yet somehow disengaged, her core, if such a thing can be isolated, always tantalizingly out of reach. Ruth Wilson Is a Riddle, and You Like Her That Way 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z She is to the verge of tears what Kristen Stewart is to the bitten lip: a virtuoso of barely restrained and tantalizingly ambiguous emotion. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z It feels right that Bob Crowley’s minimalist set should be backed by a filmed wall of water, representing the Irish Sea that looms, tantalizingly and cruelly, as a conduit to another world. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z If anything, Gessen says, “the excruciatingly slow, tantalizingly complicated, deliciously dirty story of Russian interference in the 2016 election” served as yet another distraction from the undeniable facts at hand. In ‘Surviving Autocracy,’ Masha Gessen Tells Us to Face the Facts 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z “Their relationship is emblematic of a movie whose greatest pleasures often seem to derive from what fails to happen, the showdowns and declarations that hang tantalizingly in the wind.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ and ‘Wall-E’ 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z “P.S.: I have no boring clients,” he tantalizingly says one evening, without naming names or explaining exactly what he does. Roger Stone, a master of dark political arts, is playing the Russia scandal for all it’s worth 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Researchers have come tantalizingly close to beating the disease — even creating miraculous cures in mice and the occasional human — only to come up against another harrowing complexity in the body they hadn’t imagined or anticipated. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z But it’s tantalizingly within reach for Chenoweth, a restoration ecologist who has spent his career devising ways to transform once-submerged ground into thriving forests, meadows, and marshes. Historic dam removal poses challenge of restoring both river and landscape 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The movie is like a series of questions to which the answers remain tantalizingly out of reach. 50 years on, it's the realness of "The Exorcist" that still makes your head spin 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z On Friday night, Urías gave him a template to follow, tapping back into a long-awaited, tantalizingly dominant recipe. Julio Urías and bullpen give up one hit as Dodgers shut out Mets to open second half 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z With the relentless pace of attacks, a full night of sound slumber is something to dream about — a rare treat, a treasure so often tantalizingly out of reach. Sleepless in Kyiv: In wartime capital, the stress of long fight weighs on everyone. Somehow, people cope 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The tantalizingly weird element is the pair of paintings depicted within the larger painting. Review: A striking Danish art show at the Getty unpacks what it means to be a nation in turmoil 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z And if those two can mesh — and mash — simultaneously as they did, tantalizingly, on Monday, it bodes well not just for this season, but many seasons beyond. What it could mean to Mariners if Julio Rodriguez, Jarred Kelenic both are productive 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The prospect of having a country for each nationality was tantalizingly appealing: Poland for the Poles, Serbia for the Serbs, and so on. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z And so, I suppose, does “Jeanne du Barry,” which Cannes seems to have deliberately programmed on opening night as a kind of tantalizingly toxic Depp-Maïwenn double whammy. This Cannes Film Festival could be the most explosive in years. Here's what to expect 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Context: In the days leading up to the conflict, the two now-warring generals came tantalizingly close to a deal brokered by U.N. mediators. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It includes no rankings, no ratings of any kind, just a tantalizingly brief phrase or paragraph about every one. There is no 'Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf': a critic's requiem for all the forgotten books 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Riverside came tantalizingly close to that goal last spring, when the Rams made a surprising run that landed them in the Virginia Class 5 championship game. South River baseball has a girl who’s happy to stand out; Riverside soccer eyes next step 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The Seattle Seawolves came tantalizingly close last year to their third Major League Rugby title in five seasons. Seawolves open Major League Rugby season with rematch of title game 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z A potential resolution became more complicated following the 2017 collapse of talks at a Swiss resort that many believed had come tantalizingly close to producing a breakthrough. Ex-minister Christoulides wins Cyprus presidential election 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z The stakes of this scientific debate are high in part because the core is a mystery that lurks, unsolved, so tantalizingly close to home. Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Whether her return to Iran was prompted by some primal need or some traumatic event is left tantalizingly unexplained. The protests in Iran make this funny play all the more potent 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The craggy coast of Crimea, illegally seized from Ukraine by Russia nearly nine years ago, lies far from this southern stretch of seashore — yet, to many here, the strategic peninsula suddenly seems tantalizingly close. Buoyed by southern success, Ukraine revives long-shot dream of retaking Crimea 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But he does tantalizingly suggest he’ll have more to say, even if his “memory might be faulty in parts.” Why the G20 Summit Matters to Investors 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Bill Gates says polio came tantalizingly close to being eradicated in the spring, before new outbreaks were seeded in Africa and a man was paralyzed in New York. Gates pledges $1.2 billion to speed end of crippling poliovirus 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Blue “CAVALIER” letters beckoned in the end zone, tantalizingly close, just a few yards left for Gardena Serra’s Rodrick Pleasant on another one of his blazing runs. Gardena Serra wins in back-and-forth affair over Bishop Amat 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Details shatter like glass and then reassemble, but with key pieces of the puzzle in place: Wayne critically injured, the figure in the windbreaker, parents tantalizingly just out of sight. Namwali Serpell probes the disorienting flow of grief in ‘The Furrows’ 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For Maryland football, still searching for a marquee win against a top Big Ten foe, an enormous breakthrough appeared tantalizingly close. Maryland comes close, but not close enough to beat No. 4 Michigan 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Her dry-cleaning-and-tailoring shop is tantalizingly close to the outside world, just steps beyond the gates. GLIMPSES: Threading the needle at the UN perimeter’s edge 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Being tantalizingly close, yet unable to actually see the procession up close, was frustrating to some visitors, particularly those who had traveled long distances to London. Queen’s Coffin Passes London Landmarks, in a Grand but Hushed Royal Display 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The thrilling victory and impressive performance by the tantalizingly talented quarterback Anthony Richardson took Florida from deep into the others receiving votes pile in the preseason to No. 12. AP Top 25 Reality Check: UF vaults in; Georgia changes minds 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Alabama is banking on Anderson and Young to lead the team back to a national championship after a tantalizingly close call last season. Young, Anderson driven and dominant for top-ranked Tide 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z As we will see, one key problem is that the Moon is both tantalizingly similar to Earth and frustratingly different. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z “She asked a tantalizingly easy question which set you off on a train of thought, alone,” he says. Julian Barnes’ graceful look at a rewarding bond in ‘Elizabeth Finch’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z At the beginning of this year, there was a thrum of excitement among global health experts: Eradication of polio, a centuries-old foe that has paralyzed legions of children around the globe, seemed tantalizingly close. Polio Was Almost Eradicated. This Year It Staged a Comeback. 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Once or twice in the last 15 years, we’ve gotten tantalizingly close to achieving that dream. Bundles are killing the cord-cutting dream 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The US is tantalizingly close to passing landmark legislation that would push the country closer than ever toward national and global climate goals. This act is the biggest step against climate change the US has ever taken 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z There is ambition to the chef’s cooking, the kind of fearless ambition that the poet Robert Browning once advocated, in which your reach always remains tantalizingly beyond your grasp. Review | At Balangay, a chef crafts ambitious Philippine food in a pop-up 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z But unlike so many places gutted by American industrial decline, Chapman and hundreds of other laid-off employees of the Alcoa Intalco Works aluminum smelter are tantalizingly close to recapturing that past. A factory wants to reopen making ‘green’ aluminum. Now it just needs clean energy. 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z An up-and-down third round at blustery Southern Hills put Watson tantalizingly close to the lead until he faded late with some trouble finding fairways and greens over the back nine. Watson closes in on PGA Championship lead before late fade 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Brubaker’s characters are shaped by forces they struggle to comprehend and though they sometimes get close, the truth — like the memories the series is made of — remains tantalizingly out of reach. How the pandemic pushed a comics legend to reinvent pulp fiction and 1980s L.A. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It had only found a little composure after Riyad Mahrez had scored, when the prospect of a place in the final against Liverpool at the end of May was so tantalizingly close. With Late Rally, Real Madrid Overcomes City and Outdoes Itself 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z She speaks tantalizingly of testing the sausage in an interpretation of the wonder that is the Scotch egg. Restaurant review: Communion serves up delicious ‘Seattle Soul’ cuisine that deeply matters 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Chris Paul, one of the greatest point guards in N.B.A. history, is chasing his first championship ring, with the Phoenix Suns, after coming tantalizingly close last year. N.B.A. Playoffs Preview: Good Luck Predicting Anything 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z He picked YZ Ceti b, which is slightly smaller than Earth and orbits a red dwarf located 12 light years away, making it tantalizingly close for further study. Imagine Another World. Now Imagine 5,000 More. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z That’s not for lack of trying, or for a tantalizingly goofy premise. Review | ‘The Lost City’ movie fails to live up to a tantalizingly goofy premise 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Olivia Miles, a freshman guard, came tantalizingly close to her second straight triple-double, finishing the game with 9 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists. N.C.A.A. Women’s Tournament: UConn Passes an Early Test 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The latest levels are tantalizingly close to a goal of fewer than 50 cases a week for every 100,000 residents, a level by which coronavirus transmission is seen as moderate and no longer substantial. California could see coronavirus uptick this spring because of Omicron subvariant BA.2 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z With spring tantalizingly close at hand, it’s time to take stock of this winter’s bounty of thrillers — from installments of beloved series to eye-opening debuts. The 7 best crime novels of the winter 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Badly needed help for Washington’s roads, ferries and transit is tantalizingly close to reality. Push state infrastructure package across finish line 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Even with the killer’s identity revealed, much remains tantalizingly hidden but only for a few pages. Review | In Stewart O’Nan’s ‘Ocean State,’ mean girls turn deadly 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z For years, Maryland casinos viewed America’s largest sporting event as tantalizingly out of reach. Maryland casinos now in on Super Bowl betting action 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z At the time, an addiction vaccine seemed “tantalizingly close,” as a New York Times article from Oct. To fight opioid crisis, UW researchers take new shot at developing vaccine against addictive drugs 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z In 2022, Democrats are focused on flipping several of the state legislatures that remained tantalizingly out of reach after 2020 — chiefly Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Democrats say they are serious about state elections. Are they too late? 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Most tantalizingly, the accounts suggested that one item included was an image of Lincoln in his casket. Time capsule found under Lee monument found to have books, envelope — but no Lincoln photo 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The time capsule is thought to store some 60 items related to the Confederacy — most tantalizingly, a possible image of President Abraham Lincoln in his casket, as suggested in cryptic news accounts at the time. Workers dismantling base of Richmond’s Lee monument and find what could be a time capsule 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But the initial response to omicron, and the increasing arsenal to confront the virus, ought to build faith that overcoming this challenge is growing tantalizingly closer. Keep up the strong start to omicron response 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z A goal that's come tantalizingly close for Pickett over the last three months. Shooting stars Pickett, Hartman to clash in ACC title game 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z A goal that’s come tantalizingly close for Pickett over the last three months. Shooting stars Pickett, Hartman to clash in ACC title game 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z On Wall Street, the end of the pandemic appeared tantalizingly close just a week ago. With Omicron’s Arrival, Stocks Will Again Hang on Headlines 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z National Ignition Facility’s giant laser sparked a fusion reaction that came tantalizingly close to reaching the so-called “break-even” point, when more energy is produced by the reaction than went into it. Choose your own Breakthrough of the Year with Science’s 2021 poll 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead, Nreal seems more interested in giving buyers a private virtual screen — and the results are tantalizingly close to great. Nreal Light review: Hardware is only half the battle 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z At little more than four light-years away, a fraction of a stone’s throw in cosmic distances, these stars are tantalizingly close—right on our celestial doorstep. Scientists Plan Private Mission to Hunt for Earths around Alpha Centauri 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z With the Kraken’s inaugural season tantalizingly close, the calculus became simple: could the Angry Beaver remain open long enough to benefit from the windfall of customers and interest that the team would create? Seattle, Long Ready for Another Pro Team, Embraces the Kraken 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z When they suddenly erupted for 107 victories, defying even their own projections, their happy place, the World Series, seemed tantalizingly close again. For the Giants, a Rapid Ascent, a Hard Fall and Hopes of a Rematch 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The sun danced over the Pacific Ocean as usual, but the waves remained tantalizingly out of reach to us, to loitering tourists, to the surfers who usually crowd the beaches at high tide. Opinion | California’s latest oil spill should be its last if we want to protect the state’s environment and economy 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The Aviary has been posting updates to social media and getting tantalizingly close to retrieving Kody, but he’s eluded them so far. A very big eagle escaped from the National Aviary in Pittsburgh 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z That put him tantalizingly close to becoming first Black governor in the state’s 171-year history. It's now Larry Elder's California GOP. What's his next move? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Lake gave a tantalizingly optimistic appraisal of ZTF’s progress early in camp, vowing that he would play during the regular season. Husky football coach Jimmy Lake has high standards for program, and we’ll soon get a better idea if they’ll be met 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z But it’s so tantalizingly close to being worth its $330 price in US dollars as well — which, last I checked, made it the single most expensive wireless gaming headset on the market. The best wireless gaming headset is slowly driving me up the wall 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Like the antihero at its center, the essence of “Flag Day” remains tantalizingly elusive, potently evoked but never fully realized. Review | Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ paints a flattened picture of a larger-than-life con artist 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z And as September approaches, the prospect of business as usual, which seemed tantalizingly close a few months ago, is proving elusive. New York’s Economy, Poised for Comeback, Finds Setback Instead 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z That was also 70% of the energy of the laser pulse that triggered it, making it tantalizingly close to “ignition”: a fusion shot producing an excess of energy. With explosive new result, laser-powered fusion effort nears ‘ignition’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z And for the time being, a lot of what we might observe remains tantalizingly unknown, says Michele Bannister of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Astronomers Thrill at Giant Comet Flying into Our Solar System 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Other vivid details include her blond eyelashes, her black opera binoculars, a bell pull that deviates tantalizingly from the vertical mirror frame and, reflected in the mirror, a tortoiseshell hair comb. Beauty embalmed in a painting Psychonauts 2 seems tantalizingly close to release, especially after a recent update video posted by developer Double Fine, so we might get some news about the long-in-the-works sequel. Microsoft is holding an Xbox and Bethesda showcase on June 13th 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z All of a sudden, a 14th European Cup title hung tantalizingly close. Outrage About European Super League Is Muffled by Our Cheers 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z As our friends and neighbors receive vaccinations, the finish line seems tantalizingly close, inviting us to relax and enlarge our social circles. We’re in a critical stage in the race to end deadly COVID-19 pandemic 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z But it was not a given that, with the end so tantalizingly near, the country would face the possibility of another major surge in infections. As coronavirus infections and vaccinations surge, hope collides with dread 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The end of the pandemic may be tantalizingly close. Guidelines for the vaccinated give us cautious optimism 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z But with majorities so tantalizingly within reach, and with Trump so determined to punish anyone who dares to defy him, that’s the maximum available from what passes for the country’s Republican leaders. Opinion | McConnell and McCarthy are playing different games with Trump. They might both win. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The risk in dipping into it too heavily is throwing the master plan off course when it is tantalizingly close to fruition. Mariners’ long-term outlook is promising, but fans will need to be patient (again) in 2021 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Some companies are tantalizingly close to clearing final barriers. Home tests could help in the fight against the coronavirus. So where are they? 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z One reason is that purchase prices in Europe are coming tantalizingly close to the prices for cars with gasoline or diesel engines. The Age of Electric Cars Is Dawning Ahead of Schedule 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z And incongruously, improbably, tantalizingly, it’s there for the taking for the Mariners. Amid surprising playoff push, Mariners must alter plan and call up Jarred Kelenic and Logan Gilbert 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But then there’s the most sensational mystery surrounding Marble, tantalizingly promised in the subtitle and the preface when “a shot rang out” following a car chase in Switzerland. Review | Tennis star, fashion designer, integration advocate . . . spy? 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z They fear that the U.S. decision will endanger a WHO-led program that has come tantalizingly close to the eradication of polio. Inside the Trump administration’s decision to leave the World Health Organization 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Fortunately, there is more to this picture than a tidy redemption narrative, although how much more remains a tantalizingly open question. Review: 'The Painter and the Thief' tells a moving story of true crime and redemption 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Bob’s conception of the golf swing is tantalizingly simple. The Greenkeeper’s Tale - Golf Digest 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Some regions of Pennsylvania are tantalizingly close to escaping some pandemic restrictions. Pennsylvania reopening complicated by geography, population 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Sex and death, boyhood and manhood: In between these two visually linked bookends, Kelly seems to exist at a wretched remove from life’s bounty, forever flailing at something that sits tantalizingly out of reach. Review: In 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' a brutal, sexy, spellbinding take on outlaw legend 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Most Wing employees I spoke with had ambitions bigger than their starting positions; the job planted them tantalizingly close to their passions. The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia. Unless You Work There. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z That he ends up without an answer — the climactic scene tantalizingly suggests one, then yanks it away — should seem like a failure of characterization. Review: ‘The Gringa,’ at once a naif and a radical 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s tantalizingly close for Sanders this time around. Sanders shoots for another Michigan bracket buster 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z He’s tantalizingly close to winning for the first time since the summer of 2017, when he reached World No. 2. Ranking the top 100 golfers competing at the Players Championship - Golf Digest 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Although Wren tells them their names and occupations, the nature of their relationship remains tantalizingly obscure. Review: Wake up with a stranger, no idea where you are. 'Body of Water' flows from there 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Justice seemed tantalizingly close, but Juan Carlos realized that government incompetence, indifference and possibly corruption remained serious obstacles. Mexico wouldn't solve his father's murder, so he had to do it himself 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z This is both the blessing and the curse of making the nearly impossible look tantalizingly attainable. Simone Soars: Biles named 2019 AP Female Athlete of the Year 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Most vexing for the Rams was how tantalizingly good they looked in flashes. Rams' inconsistency has been the hallmark of disappointing season 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z As the second anniversary of Lincoln Plaza Cinemas’ closing approaches, there lingers the thorny and awkward matter of the shuttered art house itself, which seems tantalizingly available. How a Band of Seasoned Cinephiles Plans to Save the Movie House 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In an illuminating, heartfelt introduction, Piepenbring describes other ideas discussed with the famously idiosyncratic artist, including Prince’s views on funk, black self-sufficiency and, tantalizingly, an unshared anecdote about a near collaboration with Michael Jackson. 5 of the best new music books 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The result of their collision is an object estimated to weigh around 2.8 solar masses, tantalizingly close to the lower bound of our mass gap. Mind the [Mass] Gap 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “It’s been eight years in the making,” said Lionel Rainey III, a leader of an effort that is now tantalizingly possible after proposed legislation and earlier petition drives came up short. Voters Near Baton Rouge Want Better Schools. First, They Need a New City. 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But now, 15 years after Branson founded Virgin Galactic, space tourism could be tantalizingly close to becoming a reality. How much does a ticket to space cost? Meet the people ready to fly. 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The Cardinals came tantalizingly close to a win in their opening game, settling for a 27-27 tie against the Lions. Sharing the misery: Cardinals and Bengals still 0 for ‘19 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z They are tantalizingly close to young adulthood and yet tragically far away. Review: Tweens invade the raunchy teen comedy in ‘Good Boys’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The Mets finally lost on Sunday after eight wins in a row, but that wild card spot seems tantalizingly close. An Amazin’ Month for the Mets 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The normally reassuring world of math, where right and wrong exist, and logic must prevail, started to seem troublingly, perhaps tantalizingly, fluid. The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z And he flashed it, tantalizingly, in his first NFL start, rushing for 66 yards and catching seven passes for 87 more yards in an upset win over the Patriots. Stone column from Seahawks training camp, on running back C.J. Prosise 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z With six riders within reach of the podium heading into the toughest final stages in the Alps, the race that resumes Tuesday after the final off-day is tantalizingly poised. Tantalizingly poised Tour de France saving its best for last 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z McIlroy bounced back with a birdie on the next and added another from 12 feet on the difficult 16th to pull himself tantalizingly close to making the cut. Rory McIlroy was rather emotional after his Friday charge to make the cut at Portrush fell one shot short - Golf Digest 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The oldest, most elusive unicorn in local progressive politics has been spotted, galloping tantalizingly into view. Chasing the unicorn: Suddenly the liberal dream of an income tax is tantalizingly real 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Thus, the waiting itself is among my clearest memories, one long day after another as Apollo 11 seemingly inched across space toward that impossibly distant, yet tantalizingly close, world. Opinion | 50 years after the moon landing, Apollo 11 remains a miracle 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But it’s bigger than the tantalizingly simple explanation of a mainstream media plotting with Democratic party elites against socialism; that would give both of them too much credit. Neoliberal pundits want to write-off Bernie Sanders, again. That's no surprise | Kate Aronoff 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The name missing from that list is Williams, who remains tantalizingly one short of Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. Obstacles galore await Wimbledon favorite Barty 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Another closely watched election fight between left-wing and moderate Democrats in New York City is tantalizingly close, deep into the vote count. The Latest: Queens DA race exceedingly close 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z From Cheney Stadium, Seattle is so tantalizingly close and yet so far away for a pitcher struggling to throw strikes. Top Mariners prospect Justus Sheffield maintains confidence amid worst stretch of pro career 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The Bruins finished the year 52-11, falling tantalizingly close to their first College World Series appearance since winning the title in 2013. Top-seeded UCLA eliminated by Michigan in NCAA super regional upset 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z But the authors of these plays represent a more inclusive and tantalizingly unorthodox future for Broadway. Tony Awards: Broadway flaunts its idealism in inspiring celebration of the year’s best 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z The pictures were astounding: a single-file line of dozens, if not hundreds, of people, perched on a jagged ridge, tantalizingly close to the summit of Mount Everest. These Are the Victims of a Deadly Climbing Season at Mount Everest 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z In the late 1990s, word began to spread of something paleontologists had long searched for: a fossil bed more tantalizingly close to the beginning of animal life than any yet seen. What the Heck Are These Fossils? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z The companies keep drivers engaged with meters or other gauges that are tantalizingly close to a new objective. ‘MissionRacer’: How Amazon turned the tedium of warehouse work into a game 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z After getting swept by the Houston Astros south of the border, the Angels got tantalizingly close to .500 by winning series against the Tigers and Orioles. Angels end 11-game trip with late rally that falls short against Twins 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z They got famously and tantalizingly close, falling just three states short of ratification before hitting a 1982 deadline created by Congress. Republicans want to make sex discrimination legal — and they're moving fast 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z That means comprehensive immigration reform — something that was tantalizingly close just six years ago, when the Senate passed an immigration bill by a huge margin. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The Capitals had one puck fly straight across the crease, and another bounced off Petr Mrazek’s pad and tantalizingly close to the goal line before a Hurricane stick knocked it away. Capitals lose Game 7 in double OT, Stanley Cup defense ends early 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Interestingly, Jacobs’s own LinkedIn profile shows that he leads three different categories within Google’s Core Technology group: “Pixelbook,” “Pixel Slate,” and the tantalizingly named “Emerging.” Google confirms its Pixelbook group has new laptops and tablets inbound 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z They have cut payroll since then, even while getting tantalizingly close to a World Series championship. Peter Guber explains why Dodgers have a different business approach then Warriors 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Unique for a marathon, the finish line is tantalizingly visible from the start. An Ice Marathon Across a Frozen Russian Lake: ‘I Ran Twice as Fast’ 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z He thought that he was poised tantalizingly on the brink, and that any day—or even any minute—the waiting would end and the real thing would begin. “Color and Light” 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z He brought the Chiefs so tantalizingly close that it left them with “an ache,” Coach Andy Reid said. Perspective | ‘It took everything’ for the Patriots to come out on top in a wild AFC championship game 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z If a user in the EU searches for “latest news” they would simply see links to media outlets’ sites alongside some tantalizingly useless timestamps. This is what Google says search will look like under EU copyright laws 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The last batch of restaurant openings of 2018 looks especially, tantalizingly good. 19 new Seattle-area restaurants and bars at the end of another boom year 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The following week, with the prospect of playing the Super Bowl on home turf tantalizingly close, the Vikings fell flat in the NFC championship game in Philadelphia. Energized Dolphins visit Vikings, site of last ‘miracle’ TD 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Yet far from the notice of Yelp or OpenTable, these immigrants and refugees composed tantalizingly balanced dishes fragrant with exotic spices, and layered with the flavors and umami you won’t find in most mainstream cookbooks. No Cookbooks Allowed: Seattle pop-up dinners celebrate immigrant home cooks 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Once again, the Seahawks came oh so tantalizingly close to toppling the team to beat in the NFC West, only to fall just short. What the national media are saying about the Seahawks’ second defeat to the Rams 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Last year he tallied 70.4 percent of the votes by the Baseball Writers Association of America, tantalizingly close to the necessary 75 percent for enshrinement. Mariners greats Lou Piniella and Edgar Martinez in the Baseball Hall of Fame? It could happen in 2019. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z For all the astounding finds in Egypt over the past two centuries, its storied landscape is still riddled with ‘known unknowns’ — the lost or undiscovered tombs of ancient luminaries, tantalizingly mentioned in historical accounts. The US opioid epidemic, a kaleidoscopic celebration of ice, and exploring ancient Egypt’s known unknowns: Books in brief 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Kepler found thousands, of many sizes—including 30 tantalizingly similar to Earth. NASA’s planet-hunting space telescope nears its end 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z In a matter of hours, with confirmation to the court tantalizingly close, Kavanaugh’s nomination would be in jeopardy. Inside Democrats’ struggle with the Kavanaugh accusation 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z When fantastic scenarios work, the imaginative mixes tantalizingly with the familiar — each feeds the other. Review: ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’ stumbles its way along a post-apocalyptic world 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Open champion, she’s tantalizingly near equaling Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. Serena Williams closing in on history, will meet Naomi Osaka in quest for 24th major title 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The time in Vegas has placed him tantalizingly close to this goal. In Japan, he is ‘The Chosen One.’ Can Yuta Watanabe become the country’s second-ever NBA player? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z More than two decades after he joined politics, Imran Khan is tantalizingly close to becoming Pakistan’s prime minister. Will Imran Khan Turn Pakistan Into an Islamic Welfare State? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But the announcement was tantalizingly short on specifics, setting off a buzz across Israel. Israel’s Secret Operation to Recover the Watch of a Legendary Spy 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The Rockets were tantalizingly close to a trip to the NBA Finals this spring, and Paul’s coming back to get over that hump. It begins: Free agency in NBA starts with a flourish 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z A long free kick by Morocco bounces around in the box tantalizingly. One Magic Ronaldo Moment Is All Portugal Needs vs. Morocco 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z This setback has come just as the decades-long campaign edges tantalizingly close to victory. Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims: Dogs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z At that point, the allusions Aster has so tantalizingly built up disintegrate into graphic gore and on-the-nose literalism. Review | ‘Hereditary’ is the scariest movie you’ll see this summer — maybe ever. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z And more’s the shame, as this season appeared to offer the Rockets a door left tantalizingly open. You Knew the Warriors Were Coming Back. The Rockets Did, Too. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Halfway through the at-bat, Trout was visibly upset at fouling off a splitter that loitered tantalizingly over the middle of the plate. Tanaka Tames Mike Trout and the Yankees’ Offense Does the Rest 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z His topics were often autobiographical, yet so tantalizingly veiled that “Philip Roth” appeared in several novels. Philip Roth, seminal author of comical and simmering discontents, dies at 85 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z But tantalizingly, people who encountered Paddock before his shooting say that he expressed conspiratorial, anti-government beliefs, which are characteristic of the far right. New documents suggest Las Vegas shooter was conspiracy theorist – what we know 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z That meant Reid's usual luxurious sound environments tended to be tantalizingly hinted at, as she engagingly reacted to the moment. From 19th Century Memphis to modern-day L.A.: Master Chorale time-travels through 'dreams of the new world' 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z He had been watching footage of migrating birds and wanted to capture the way two bodies moving at high speed, tantalizingly close to each other, could still maintain their independence. Justin Peck Is Making Ballet That Speaks to Our Everyday Lives 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In New Cross today, the London of the global super-rich seems both tantalizingly close and unreachable. What Meghan Markle Means to Black Britons 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z In New Cross today, the London of the global superrich seems both tantalizingly close and unreachable. What the royal bride-to-be means to black Londoners 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Rumors from all over the world about sightings of Bigfoot, Sasquatch and yeti tantalizingly hint that there are mythical creatures just waiting to be discovered. How Chasing Bigfoot Can Lead to Actual Science 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z DNA testing will also bring us tantalizingly closer to the goal of eradicating human traits we find objectionable. Anne Wojcicki Wants to Be Healthy at 100 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The $1 million was tantalizingly close just midway through the first half. Casino owner bet big that Michigan would win it all. Instead, he watches $1 million slip away 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He started the round five shots back, but surged tantalizingly close to the lead by collecting six birdies and a bogey heading to the par-5 16th hole. Masters Preview? Rory McIlroy Wins at Bay Hill, and Tiger Woods Makes a Run 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z The maddeningly paced click click of cherries lining up but tantalizingly just too few to jackpot. Opinion | Your Kid’s Phone Is Not Like a Cigarette 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Backers of the bipartisan compromise showed they could get tantalizingly close to the magic threshold of 60 votes, but still came up short at 54 and the entire effort collapsed in failure. Two Polarizing Issues, Gun Control and Immigration, Have Thwarted Compromise 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Just three years later, Bayer would nearly become an Olympian herself at 16, missing the cut for Rio with a tantalizingly close third-place finish in the 200-meter fly. Back from a freak injury, Olympic hopeful eyes perfect ending to high school swim career 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Another promising deal — so tantalizingly close — had somehow slipped away. ‘Negotiating with Jell-O’: How Trump’s shifting positions fueled the rush to a shutdown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z If you’re a fan of the Colts, then you’re quite used to this scenario: Indianapolis keeps the game tantalizingly close, gets into position to pull out a win and then falls short. Colts lose another close one in frustrating 3-12 season 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The Hero World Challenge is Tiger's own event--a limited-field exhibition benefitting his foundation on a tantalizingly forgiving layout at a wonderful holiday destination in the Bahamas. How to Watch Tiger Play This Week - Golf Digest 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z The prospect of colonizing Mars used to be no more than a distant fantasy, but today it seems tantalizingly real. Finding God on a Mars Colony 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Finally — and most tantalizingly — maybe their treatment regimens actually worked. Perspective: Untangling the ALS X-Files : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s American Dream-adjacent, with such middle-class advantages as financial security, leisure and cozy domestic stability tantalizingly visible but always just out of reach. Review | ‘The Florida Project’: Willem Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Left-wing politics had the buzz of a music festival and the effervescence of a political force that is tantalizingly close to power. Opinion | Get Ready for Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z After getting tantalizingly close in 2016, Cleveland will attempt to end a 68-year World Series title drought, the longest active dry spell in baseball. A capsule look at the Yankees-Indians playoff series 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z At its longest, totality lasted a tantalizingly short 2 minutes and 40 seconds. Out of the Shadow 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z President Bill Clinton came tantalizingly close to a missile deal before the chaos of the 2000 election derailed the agreement. Perspective | If Trump kills the Iran deal, he may give the world another Rocket Man 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z They symbolize something exotic, strange, and mysterious, which is both alien and tantalizingly familiar to us today. The Templars Got Rich Fighting for God—Then Lost It All 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z And “Marjorie Prime” doesn’t disappoint, with some mysteries being solved and others remaining tantalizingly elusive. Review | ‘Marjorie Prime’: A not-too-distant future haunted by an unnervingly recent past 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z With control of it tantalizingly close, it must be agonizing for him to see history repeat itself. Will 2017 be Rupert Murdoch's summer of despair? | Jill Abramson 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In the eyes of educators around southern Indiana, which is tantalizingly close to the path of totality, it provides an irreplaceable educational opportunity for students to delve into a major celestial event happening in real-time. Eclipse bringing a whole universe of learning opportunities 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Stage an immaculate, elaborately floral newborn baby photo shoot wearing a long blue veil, with the ocean tantalizingly in the background. Analysis | The hierarchy of celebrity baby announcements, from Beyoncé to laundry detergent sponsorships 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Making a living as a freelancer is tough for any photographer, but for Slater, economic stability was once tantalizingly within reach. Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking' 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The city’s most symbolic landmark, the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, was tantalizingly near. ISIS blows up historic mosque in Mosul, Iraqi military says 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The 16 panels, tantalizingly titled “Dangerous Love,” told the story of a comely Chinese civil servant, Little Li, who meets a Western man at a dinner party. Opinion | Once a fervent Chinese revolutionary, he spent 16 years in a communist prison 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z There was a tantalizingly close match to one of the names the woman gave the police, Evelyn Moore. The Personas of a 1970 Jane Doe in Harlem Come Into Focus 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z The idea now appears to be tantalizingly within reach. California Today: Crafting the Perfect Wave 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z In a movie as alert to the nuances of low-key misery as it is to moments of sudden, unguarded tenderness, the answer is tantalizingly elusive up to the very end. Review | ‘The Lovers,’ with Debra Winger and Tracy Letts, is a charming late-in-life sex comedy 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “That’s a good feeling story,” he said, as usual, leaving it tantalizingly incomplete. In Mekong Delta backwaters, Vietnam vets find peace in a town that war destroyed 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z The captivating, see-and-be-seen 1980s world of his subsequent San Francisco restaurant, Stars, is made tantalizingly real. Documentary review: Jeremiah Tower, forgotten genius behind California cuisine 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The Bloomberg tablets are deeply everyday documents, too, and often tantalizingly incomplete. How to Decode an Ancient Roman’s Handwriting 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Whether or not Milo really must feed on human blood is left tantalizingly open-ended. 'The Transfiguration' leaves a fresh mark for vampire fans old and new 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z She remains tantalizingly close to the all-time grand slam record held by Australia’s Margaret Court, whose 24 major titles were split between the amateur and professional eras. Serena Williams confirms pregnancy and expects her first child 'this fall' 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Sturgeon’s legs, described as “undeniably more shapely shanks,” were “more flirty, tantalizingly crossed.” Daily Mail Compares 2 U.K. Leaders — Their Legs, Not Their Ideas 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Despite the multitude of food options in the heart of New York City — Marquette’s hotel last week was, tantalizingly, across the street from a Shake Shack — the players seemed able to resist temptation. More Smoothies, Less Soda as Athletic Departments Focus on Nutrition 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It stopped tantalizingly close to that mark, in large part because a big rally in Goldman stock ended. How did the Dow get to 20K? Think Goldman, Boeing and IBM 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z There, above the meat case crammed with pork chops, steaks and chicken, were toys arrayed on shelves tantalizingly close to our small outstretched arms. Kept in Line by an Angel When Fort Apache Wasn’t Enough 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z It was the evening rush, but the kiosk at Grand Central Terminal was closed, its beer bottles and bags of peanuts tantalizingly out of reach in a clear case. Metro-North Riders Lament a Curb on Their Pre-Christmas Spirits 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z There were bank statements, emails between accountants and lawyers and a few organizational charts tantalizingly stamped “confidential.” How to Hide $400 Million 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Fowler, who finished earlier than the Spaniards, had a similar long chance on the last to put the United States on three-under but his putt tantalizingly lipped out. Spain on top of World Cup of Golf after first round 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Many are in California or other Western states where management companies entice them to buy property in the heartland that looks tantalizingly cheap compared with offerings on the Coast. Residents of tax-sale houses go through difficult journey 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z A woman approaching her 101st birthday who may now never see a female president, despite coming tantalizingly close. Puget Sound area sees protests while surprised Trump voters share hopes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Many dream of reaching Britain, tantalizingly close across the Channel. Police clear Paris migrant camp that swelled after Calais closure 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Another brilliant - if slightly unexpected - night at the office pushed the dream tantalizingly close to reality. Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman ‘100 percent’ ready for Game 7 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Another brilliant — if slightly unexpected — night at the office pushed the dream tantalizingly close to reality. Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman '100 percent' ready for Game 7 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z And tantalizingly, ripples in the preserved meninges might trace some of the folds in the cortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain. First Known Dinosaur Brain Fossil Discovered 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It hummed Wednesday with some key pieces missing and another one tantalizingly close to returning. Ducks dominate Predators in 6-1 rout 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Only 4.3 light-years away, Proxima b is tantalizingly close by—as close to us as any extrasolar planet is ever likely to be. An Exoplanet Too Far 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The stage, then, was tantalizingly set, but the play that followed was bitterly disappointing. As Manchester United and Liverpool Face Off, José Mourinho Provides the Only Thrill 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z For De Quincey, a complex identification with Wordsworth began, tantalizingly, even before he had heard the man’s name. The Man Who Invented the Drug Memoir 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Boxberger’s first pitch, a slider, hung tantalizingly over the middle of the plate, and Sanchez did what he is doing with just about every pitch these days — he crushed it. Gary Sanchez’s Homer Gives Yankees a Win They Desperately Need 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Holt will encounter an unprecedented challenge, however, on Monday night, when he will mediate between two hungry candidates now tantalizingly close to claiming the most powerful post on Earth. Lester Holt: presidential debate moderator, proven fact-checker 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z And Warpaint, with a strong new album in “Heads Up,” rooted songs in rhythms that were fluid and danceable, flavored by tantalizingly elusive melodies. Music Tastes Good showcases Long Beach with an accessible, approachable debut 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Now a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature provides the best evidence yet for a tantalizingly close target on which to seek alien life. Scientists say they’ve found a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our closest neighbor 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Wright’s tantalizingly slow pitches, which ranged from 63 to 77 mph, dipped and darted all over the strike zone and left the Dodgers baffled and bewildered. Dodgers stumped by Boston knuckleballer Steven Wright in loss to Red Sox, 9-0 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Mickelson’s round could have been even better: his birdie attempt at the final hole circled the cup and then hung tantalizingly on the lip as Mickelson put his hand over his mouth in disbelief. PhilMickelson, With First-Round 63, Breaks Course Record at British Open 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The peak remains tantalizingly close for Serena Williams but negotiating the final incline to a record-equaling 22nd grand slam singles title is proving the trickiest of all. Stuck on 21, Serena aims to finish the job 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Spacecraft confirmed that hunch and, tantalizingly, found that that crust is regularly fractured and resurfaced, a sure sign that there is a deep—perhaps very deep—ocean of liquid water underneath. NASA is Legally Required to Go to Jupiter—and That's Good 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “We are grieving political losses, dreams tantalizingly tasted but ultimately unrealized.” Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Gather and Try to Look Past November 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z “We are grieving political losses, dreams tantalizingly tasted but ultimately unrealized,” said the influential left-wing author Naomi Klein at an opening-night panel. In Chicago, Sanders supporters commiserate — and plot their next moves 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z But then the World Cup started, and Germany was transformed – from a team of directionless plodders to a tantalizingly mobile outfit committed to attack at all costs. USA's Copa América has been revived by their glorious, bloody defense 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Independence is tantalizingly within reach, but only if the Brexit campaign wins while remaining unpopular in Scotland. Brexit could break up Britain: Why the EU vote could mean the end of Britain as we know it 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The development of Brazil into an advanced economy — once tantalizingly within sight — again seems more like an elusive mirage. Populist Policies Let Brazil’s Tomorrow Slip Away 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z They also found a tantalizingly familiar pattern within the slower phase of the lizards’ brain waves. Do sleeping dragons dream? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z But the puck wobbled tantalizingly over his glove. Ducks deliver 5-2 win over Predators 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z And the Capitals have failed to reach even the Eastern Conference finals since 1998, falling tantalizingly short last season when they blew a 3-1 series lead in a seven-game loss to the Rangers. 2016 N.H.L. Playoffs: Momentum to Be Tested Against Experience 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z After decades of an increasingly conservative court, however, the potential for generational change is tantalizingly close. It’s more crucial that a Democrat wins in November than you realize: A liberal Supreme Court could have seismic effect on American life 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “These results are tantalizingly close to the earliest evidence for modern humans in the region, which might suggest a causal link to the subsequent disappearance of H. floresiensis,” Higham adds. Did humans drive 'hobbit' species to extinction? 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Then the strain of not mentioning the name of a certain tabloid publication, or gossiping about who might be depicted in its tantalizingly blurry photographs, drove the “Outnumbered” couch-cluster into bitterness and madness. Trumped again: The diabolical GOP frontrunner slimes Cruz, shames Fox & controls the news cycle 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z With two more seasons like last year, when Rodriguez hit 33 homers, the record would be tantalizingly close. Alex Rodriguez’s Twisting Career May Be Nearing Its End 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The quiet of our drives always helps him find his words, which so often seem to float tantalizingly out of reach. The day I helped my autistic son register to vote 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In the latest nationwide poll of Republicans, Donald Trump is either tantalizingly or terrifyingly close to majority support, depending on your point of view. Mission: Impassable 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Sanders came tantalizingly close in the 1991 season, his third in the league, when Detroit lost to Washington in the NFC championship game. Some of the NFL's biggest all-time stars have a gaping hole on their playing resumes 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z And by noon that day, after waiting in line for over an hour at a press screening of the film only to be stopped tantalizingly close to the front, I had missed the movie completely. The Eight Best Films T Saw at Sundance This Year 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z And we came tantalizingly close to meeting our goal for this year’s fundraising campaign. Is it wrong to take a selfie during intermission at the theater? 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z What happened to "Boyhood's" Mason after that, however, remained a tantalizingly open question. 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater puts his spin on a sports film with 'Everybody Wants Some' 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The dating of the fossil layer puts their deaths tantalizingly close in time to the impact of a meteor off what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Still, he tantalizingly teases where the company could head next. Why 'Oxenfree' may just be the first must-play game of 2016 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z As of Wednesday, the goal was tantalizingly close. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Start for a good Division I college team, and the possibility of a pro career, in the N.B.A. or more likely overseas, is a dream tantalizingly within reach. Junior College’s Second Chances Become Dead Ends 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The Sooners are tantalizingly close to a spot in the College Football Playoff, but they will need to beat their archrival. College Football Games to Watch on Saturday 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Still, the roll call of Paris attackers highlights how tantalizingly close police came to identifying them. How officials may have missed their chance to stop Paris terror suspects 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s what Portland fans have felt for years, occasional witnesses to fleeting moments of greatness that always hang, tantalizingly, out of reach. Darlington Nagbe, soccer enigma 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Still, the political Bushes appear to be a family business whose deliberations are tantalizingly out of the public’s reach. How the Bushes Misunderstood Cheney 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The mother lode of missing masterpieces may still be there somewhere, tantalizingly close. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But Peña-Mora noted tantalizingly that it’s not clear where the vault doors, facing westward under the park, even lead. New York City workers unearth burial vaults beneath Washington Square Park 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z In Belgrade, they are tantalizingly close to Western Europe. A Family Swept Up in the Migrant Tide 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Sitting on history, so tantalizingly close, but possibly as unreachable as the surface of Mars. California man tries to dig up Missouri missile site 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z He won that battle in 2011, and since then has flirted with countless tenants, with several deals coming tantalizingly close. Landmark Metro Theater in Manhattan to Be Reborn as a Planet Fitness 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z We see the mundanity of her life, while having a tantalizingly incomplete picture of the complicated, morally ambiguous person that exists under her expressionless surface. Review: Can The Knick cure its own dark protagonist? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Discussion of ‘‘unicorn hunting’’ is a fixture on relationship message boards and blogs, and many find that the prize, while appearing tantalizingly in reach, is as unattainable as ever. Silicon Valley’s Most Elusive Beast 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Hungary tantalizingly opened the way Monday, allowing more than 1,000 migrants to pack westbound trains — and inspiring a migrant surge to the capital — before it withdrew the option 24 hours later. Migrants flood into reopened Budapest rail station, find no trains going to the West 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z So tantalizingly close is Europe, the beach is a favorite launching point for the “harragas,” as illegal migrants are known here. For French-Algerians and Algerian-French, No Place to Truly Call Home 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z He has not proposed a tantalizingly low top income tax rate, like Marco Rubio’s 25 percent or Ben Carson’s 10 percent. Donald Trump, Moderate Republican 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z These fundamental existential questions are at the forefront of scientific inquiry in an age where remarkable advances in biochemistry, astronomy, earth science, and computation are bringing some of the answers tantalizingly close. A New Era for Origins of Life Science? 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This week’s speech left the answers to such questions where they usually are with Clinton—tantalizingly uncertain. Hillary Clinton's Resurrection 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z X-Men was something different, a “part I” that didn’t finish its story and intentionally left loose ends tantalizingly dangling for a forthcoming sequel. 'X-Men' At 15: It Wasn't A Movie, It Was A TV Pilot 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Much of her style of rule comes directly from the M.G.R. playbook: populist, authoritarian, tantalizingly inaccessible. What Happens When a State Is Run by Movie Stars? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Chef and owner Simpson Wong wanted to create a cocktail that was both refreshing and tantalizingly fragrant. Do You Like Piña Coladas? Try New York's Latest Take 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s still nothing like Microsoft’s elaborate concept video, but it’s tantalizingly brilliant. Microsoft Hololens Is A Revolutionary Device With One Major Problem 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There was a time in May when the number of new cases in those two countries was tantalizingly close to zero. Rise in new cases shows Ebola has not released its deadly grip 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z For American metric advocates, widespread adoption seemed tantalizingly just over the horizon for decades or more. The hidden history behind Lincoln Chafee's metric proposal 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It is June, summer is tantalizingly close, and yet New York City public school students are still in class, looking longingly out the window while cramming in a few last weeks’ worth of material. Half-Days Fill Final Stretch of New York’s School Year 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the hopes for a single-payer system, once tantalizingly close, may be lost for years. In Vermont, Frustrations Mount Over Affordable Care Act 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z What Holebrok did to provoke his attackers, many of whom he specifically names in his complaint, remains tantalizingly unknown. Man Bound To Tree Has Right Hand Cut Off In 14th Century Blood Feud 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Once again, he has Cleveland tantalizingly close to its first NBA title. For Cleveland and Atlanta, plenty of sports lowlights 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z For those trapped inside the vessels until the crew is given the go-ahead to leave, the shore is tantalizingly close, a few hours away by boat. Brokers tricking Rohingya children onto trafficking boats 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Still, she found a lot to discuss — because while we will never see the day when mammoths once again roam the earth, the science of so-called de-extinction is real, and tantalizingly close. “Does this mean we can clone a mammoth?”: The tantalizing, risky and very real science of de-extinction 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z The areas glimmer tantalizingly in a new full-colour map of Ceres that was obtained in February, but not released until the conference. Mystery of bright spots on Ceres grows 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z They glimmer tantalizingly in a new full-colour map of Ceres, obtained in February but released at the conference. Mystery of Ceres's Bright Spots Grows 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z One team needed to win, visions of a deep playoff run bouncing tantalizingly around their players' minds. Losing comes naturally for Lakers, this time 107-77 to Portland 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z The multiple-nation talks between Tehran and Washington seemed tantalizingly close to a breakthrough, but have hit a last-minute snag over disposing of uranium in Russia. Three-Minute Briefing: WH Pulls Back on Bibi Smackdown, Pence Does PR 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The program has the basic niceties of conversation down cold, and for a moment, the Star Trek fantasy of a “universal translator” seemed tantalizingly within reach. Microsoft Is Close to Perfecting a Universal Communicator 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z And yet, even as the highbrow holy grail — the acquisition of complete knowledge — seems tantalizingly close, almost nobody speaks about the rebirth of the Renaissance man or woman. In the Age of Information, Specializing to Survive 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z And on Thursday, State Assemblyman Carl E. Heastie appeared to be tantalizingly close to, or past, that threshold and thus on the precipice of ascending to the soon-to-be-vacant speakership of the New York Assembly. Field Thins Quickly in Contest for New Assembly Speaker 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Well, the deadline is Friday, and we are tantalizingly close. The Helping Hand fundraising drive is close to its goal. You can help put us over the top. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The Dow Jones is tantalizingly close to crossing for the first time the 18,000-point mark — a symbolic milestone the index approached two weeks ago before the market began to sink. Jobs Confidence Gives Big Boost to Stock Market 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z More work needs to be done, but this approach is tantalizingly close to beating gasoline at its own game. Batteries That Will Save the Planet Canceling a project is unpleasant, especially when the target is in sight and tantalizingly close. HBO to Outsource Streaming Technology in Blow to 'Backstabbing' CTO 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z She's tantalizingly close to turning commercial space travel from a pipe dream into a very real reality. The Verge 50 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The Paleo premise seems tantalizingly sensical: For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings ate and lived in ways that bear little resemblance to our modern modes of existence. You Asked: Should I Go Paleo? 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z But it seems tantalizingly close thanks to many of the companies mentioned here. Trillion-Dollar Baby: Can Apple Go Where No Stock Has Gone Before? 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z A better, more accurate picture of Europa does nothing to change the facts on the ground there—or, more tantalizingly, below the ground. See A New, Reprocessed View of Jupiter's Moon Europa 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z In both cases, that translates into an R&D spending of about $3.3 billion per new drug, which is tantalizingly close to the $2.9 billion “average” figure calculated by the authors. The Ugly Cost Of Developing New Drugs -- Can We Make It Prettier? 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Often, their proximity to their old homes is "tantalizingly short," Hugo Slim of Oxford University said in a report for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. As fears rise in Myanmar, Rohingya exodus grows 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z At its northern fringe is the dystopian sprawl of a colossal Con Edison substation that separates residents from the tantalizingly close East River. Brooklyn’s Sleepy Enclave, Vinegar Hill, Awakens 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z In all, the magic six looked tantalizingly close. AP News in Brief at 9:58 p.m. EST 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Poppe’s film is tantalizingly equivocal, suggesting that it may be impossible to be both a hero and a homebody. ‘1,000 Times Good Night’ movie review: Keeping the family in focus What’s more, the issue of exactly what Julien is accused of doing, to whom, with whose help, and for what reasons remains tantalizingly unresolved deep into the film. ‘The Blue Room’ movie review: No denials in this French mystery Brazil's increasingly powerful evangelical Christians are tantalizingly close to electing one of their own as president next month in what would be a historic shift for the world's largest Catholic nation. Brazil's evangelicals gain clout, close to electing first president 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Models tantalizingly carried display cases containing dolls wearing matching outfits. Fashion-fearless Klum takes on Milan 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z The Group of 20 leading nations, meeting at the weekend, said they were tantalizingly close to adding an extra $2 trillion to the global economy and creating millions of new jobs. Relief over Scotland gives way to 'Great Stagnation' worries 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Based on the technologies on display at this week’s Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress in Detroit, we’re getting tantalizingly close to that Jetsons era. Baby Steps Toward Driverless Cars Deliver Huge Leaps in Safety 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A fascinating section on "market-based management," Charles' system for encouraging independence and entrepreneurial thinking among Koch Industries' staff — expounded in his own book "The Science of Success" — is tantalizingly brief. A surprisingly nonpartisan look at the Koch brothers 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z And some had come tantalizingly close to the prize. Second-Chance Med School 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In the case of polio, it’s tantalizingly close to happening again. Total War on Polio: The Battle in Pakistan 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Suddenly, the possibility of a 2015 World Series matchup between the Cubs and Miami — as foretold in “Back to the Future Part II” — seemed tantalizingly real. The Future Sure Looks Better From the Past 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z His through-ball sliced slid tantalizingly close, but just beyond, the retreating defender, curling delicately across him and on to Di Maria's toes at the edge of the penalty box. Messi fit, yet hamstrung as Argentina face Dutch 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z But a new report on political polarization from Pew adds important new information, even as it leaves some questions tantalizingly unanswered and/or underanalyzed. Tea Party phonies: Doing the conservative zigzag and right-wing flip-flop, based on who’s president 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Those who savor that moment before the coaster plunges down should ride in the front car — inching over the crest will be tantalizingly slow. Goliath roller coaster is fearsome and fun, but shows off physics too 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The changes since 2006 – the realization that actual soccer beat writers and analysts and personalities and, yes, anchors are out there – show how tantalizingly possible a smarter future for football broadcasts might be. Why is ESPN's World Cup coverage all about ESPN? It could actually be good! 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z It lay there, tantalizingly exposed, and now the race was on to get to it first. Stepan’s Sweep (of a Glove) Helps His Team Avoid One 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z That the Kings are so tantalizingly close to that moment, one game from winning their second Cup in three years, is a resounding testament to Quick’s skills. Rangers Create Bounces; L.A. Kings’ Jonathan Quick Swats Them Away 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But since then the crown has gone unclaimed, tantalizingly so, with one supposed shoo-in after another failing to complete the sweep. 12 Belmont Stakes Contenders Who Just Missed Out on a Triple Crown 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Their targets are tantalizingly close: Uber’s new driver center is kitty-corner from the lot, and Uber drivers line up outside the building to be let in for troubleshooting appointments and — surprise — more free luncheons. How Uber And Lyft Are Trying To Kill Each Other 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z His team was leading by two runs, and his first win of the season was tantalizingly within reach. No Runs Allowed, but Still No Wins for Cubs’ Samardzija 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Once the programs were all in place, I received a file containing roughly twenty-five documents: “Just a very small taste: the tip of the tip of the iceberg,” he tantalizingly explained. “I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light” 2014-05-13T11:50:00Z But the developments at Penn point, tantalizingly, to something more, something that would rank among the great milestones in the history of mankind: a true cure. Is This How We'll Cure Cancer? 2014-05-07T11:51:00Z Conversely, startups that fail to learn the best operational and planning practices of large companies often stumble—just when success seems tantalizingly close. "Why Can't You Be More Like A Startup?" -- How To Build A Culture Of Agility 2014-04-17T00:00:00Z King’s generosity and open-mindedness quickly adds that there may be other ways of interpreting the fragment and at this point much is still “tantalizingly open.” The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Enters the Limelight 2014-04-11T22:52:33Z It culminated in Brassard’s shot attempt that slid beneath Lehner, the puck lying tantalizingly unguarded in the crease before the Senators swept it to safety. Rangers 3, Senators 2: With Eyes on Playoffs, Rangers Miss Opportunity 2014-04-06T03:14:28Z Beyond the horizon Now Hawking proposes a third, tantalizingly simple, option. Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black holes' 2014-01-27T05:00:00Z NAIROBI, Kenya — An end to the monthlong conflict in South Sudan appeared tantalizingly close on Thursday and mediators said that the two sides would sign a temporary cease-fire before the end of the day. Mediators Say Truce in South Sudan Is Near 2014-01-23T13:55:27Z They were heartened when China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, came to power that November, vowing to stamp out corruption, promote judicial fairness and respect the Constitution, goals tantalizingly close to their own. Chinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed 2014-01-16T02:24:26Z Other drivers advanced through the two lanes, so tantalizingly close but suddenly off limits. A Bridge to Scandal: Behind the Fort Lee Ruse 2014-01-13T04:26:01Z They came tantalizingly close to a trade for the Mariners’ Cliff Lee that July, and when Seattle shipped him instead to Texas, the Yankees fumed. Cano Renews a Rivalry Across a Great Divide 2013-12-07T16:02:12Z The Dow sits tantalizingly close to this lofty number and no doubt the 16,000 mark would be cause for celebration among traders and investors. Week Ahead: Can Shoppers Take Dow Jones Index To 16,000? 2013-11-17T19:45:00Z The world is tantalizingly close to that goal: after a 28-year campaign, polio is endemic in only three countries: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Pakistani Polio Hits Syria, Proving No Country Is Safe Until All Are 2013-11-14T08:05:24Z The huge orange seeds are displayed tantalizingly on cones bearing around 150 each. Are Cycads Social Plants? 2013-10-17T02:45:06.783Z Most searing was the failure of the 2011 debt-ceiling talks, which brought Obama tantalizingly close to what he thought would be a “grand bargain” on deficit reduction. Shutdown crisis shows Washington breakdown 2013-09-29T00:12:04Z StellaService then sells this data back to companies like Sears–and, tantalizingly, their competitors. The Nielsen Of Amazon Orders? Data Startup StellaService Rates E-Commerce, And Google Wants In 2013-09-04T10:00:00Z The ball hung up tantalizingly before carrying over the left-field fence, and Rodriguez clapped his hands together as it splashed down into the seats. Yankees 5, Tigers 4: Gardner’s Homer Helps Yankees Escape 2013-08-11T21:09:38Z The home team continued to press for the goal to equalize the game and the series, hitting the woodwork several times and coming tantalizingly close at others. For Ronaldinho, Mission Accomplished 2013-07-25T16:00:39Z After looking at numerous compounds, he came up with a tantalizingly simple solution. At War Blog: One Man’s Attempt to Create a Fertilizer Compound That Won’t Explode 2013-06-24T14:10:25Z Last summer, British-born Australian Penny Palfrey got tantalizingly close to the Florida Keys but couldn't finish when she swam into a Gulf Stream eddy that pushed her in the wrong direction. Australian woman attempts record swim from Cuba to U.S. 2013-06-12T17:22:42Z One of the group’s first activities was mapping publicly accessible fruit trees in Silver Lake and other Los Angeles neighborhoods, including private trees with succulent fruit tantalizingly draped over public rights of way. ‘Fruit Activists’ Take Urban Gardens in a New Direction 2013-05-11T17:52:15Z Pioneers of particle physics like Feynman, Weinberg and t’ Hooft brought us tantalizingly close to the ultimate goal of a “final” theory. Why the search for a unified theory may turn out to be a pipe dream 2013-05-03T23:45:02.410Z Now, two teams, one American and one Canadian, are getting tantalizingly close, after battling it out for years. Flight of Fancy: The Sky's the Limit for Team That Rises to the Occasion 2013-04-26T04:08:34Z Some Michigan fans were despondent, coming to terms with a championship miss that felt tantalizingly close. NCAA championship: Louisville, Michigan provide much-needed reprieve 2013-04-09T14:42:00Z If yesterday’s arguments around a different gay-marriage case are any indication, however, they may be tantalizingly inconclusive. Watching Kennedy: Court's Swing Voter Offers Clues to a Gay Marriage Ruling 2013-03-27T10:50:24Z New York only really came close to scoring once, when a Carl Hagelin wrist shot knuckled off Fleury's midsection, fell to the ice and laid tantalizingly close to the goal line. Penguins beat Rangers 3-0 for 8th straight win 2013-03-17T00:03:08Z But only tantalizingly so; famously, gravity remained intractable and its union with quantum theory has remained perhaps the greatest unsolved problem in physics for the last fifty years. Why the search for a unified theory may turn out to be a pipe dream 2013-05-03T23:45:02.410Z Jordan Morgan had a fairly easy tip-in attempt of Burke's miss that could have won it for Michigan, but the ball rolled tantalizingly around the rim and off. No. 2 Indiana beats No. 7 Michigan 72-71 for title 2013-03-11T07:26:12Z Jordan Morgan had a fairly easy tip-in attempt of Burke's miss that could have won the game for Michigan, but the ball rolled tantalizingly around the rim and off. Indiana men win outright Big Ten regular-season title | College basketball 2013-03-11T04:51:04Z Jordan Morgan also had a fairly easy tip-in attempt of Burke's miss that could have won it for Michigan, but the ball rolled tantalizingly around the rim and off. No. 7 Michigan loses to No. 2 Indiana 72-71 2013-03-11T01:03:09Z It marks an exploratory, transformative stage—in a first meeting or an existing relationship—when interested parties look toward a tantalizingly unknown future. Decoding the Art of Flirtation 2013-02-14T19:15:05.317Z And when we figure it out – or at least get tantalizingly closer – it’s thrilling. Science’s epic win of a week 2013-02-05T21:15:00Z The American University men’s basketball team came tantalizingly close to what would have been its most significant victory of the season on Wednesday night. American vs. Bucknell: Mike Muscala’s last-second basket gives Bison 56-55 win 2013-01-31T03:41:44Z Even after one reads accounts of the case, and even after one sees Mr. Klores’s film, the precise nature of that tie remains tantalizingly elusive. Linda Riss Pugach, 1937-2013: Linda Riss Pugach, Whose Life Was Ripped From Headlines, Dies at 75 2013-01-24T02:47:05Z The site includes a 70-meter stretch of perfectly preserved paving stones—lined in places with the disused tombstones of imperial bodyguards—that disappears tantalizingly into the earth on either side of the dig. Entombing the Tomb of the Gladiator: Who Will Save the Roman Ruins? 2013-01-23T08:05:24Z Now we are tantalizingly close to another such epic moment. Why 2013 May Witness a Final Battle Against Polio 2013-01-03T13:35:31Z Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images A deal for the , so tantalizingly close at the start of this week, has descended into name-calling and frustration. The art of the deal: CEOs frustrated at pace of fiscal cliff negotiations 2012-12-20T15:31:01Z At a news conference on Monday, JPL officials revealed that one of the ships—Voyager 1—is tantalizingly close to that goal, and Stone was on hand for the announcement. Voyager 1 Reaches Solar System's Edge 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z That is, flatly and tantalizingly, all there is. Notre Dame-USC updates 2012-11-24T23:53:00Z He was one of their own, so tantalizingly close to the biggest trading floor of all. Wall Street Took a Beating at the Polls 2012-11-08T02:15:30Z He is Miguel Cabrera, and he is tantalizingly close to unlocking the doors of a musty triple crown fraternity that has admitted no new members in 45 years. Miguel Cabrera Tantalizingly Close to Triple Crown 2012-09-26T02:36:49Z He does make it clear they came tantalizingly close to a deal. Woodward Book Details Battles Over Deficit 2012-09-06T23:34:25Z Finally—and most tantalizingly—Curiosity will also sniff the Martian sky for atmospheric methane, a telltale hint of current organic life. Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet 2012-08-06T15:35:28Z The K-12 market is tantalizingly huge: The U.S. spends more than $500 billion a year to educate kids from ages five through 18. Private firms eyeing profits from public schools 2012-08-02T14:18:25Z The entertainment giant Viacom came tantalizingly close to taking a large chunk of the vacant space but decided last spring to expand its offices in Times Square instead. Square Feet: World Financial Center Undergoes Makeover 2012-07-31T21:30:25Z Eighth in the world, he did come tantalizingly close to a semi-final in the 2010 Paris world championships where he took sixth. Fencing: Abouelkassem first African to reach Games semis 2012-07-31T17:23:24Z Still, with so few cases world wide, the prospect of global eradication is tantalizingly close. How a Ban on Polio Vaccination in Pakistan Puts the Entire World at Risk 2012-07-15T22:35:34Z Victory gets tantalizingly close, and then recedes, forcing health authorities to appeal for another $1 billion, as they did recently in Geneva. C.I.A. Vaccine Ruse in Pakistan May Have Harmed Polio Fight 2012-07-09T21:20:07Z Last November, after years of delay, the prospect of a foreign partner appeared tantalizingly close for the domestic chains. Indian retailers retrench as reform hopes dashed 2012-06-10T19:16:41Z Her most enduring dream, of racing in the Olympic Games, is now tantalizingly in reach. GB hurdler responds to 'Plastic Brit' jibe 2012-05-28T15:57:23Z Supply Ship Passes Test Before Docking The world’s first private supply ship flew tantalizingly close to the International Space Station on Thursday, passing a critical test in advance of Friday’s actual docking. | Space: Supply Ship Passes Test in Space Before Docking 2012-05-25T01:36:36Z The Triple Crown quest brought some tantalizingly close calls since Affirmed turned back Alydar in the Derby, Preakness and Belmont 34 years ago - the longest drought between Triple Crown champions. I'll Have Another set to go for another at Belmont 2012-05-20T16:14:18Z I do not know why this was so, but I guessed that this handsome little telegraph operator had some of the characteristics that make pretty girl operators in the States so tantalizingly charming. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z "Was pretty sure Dave would make a discovery if he worked hard enough," piped a shrill voice tantalizingly. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z Then Georgetown's Otto Porter took a 3-pointer that hit the front of the rim, tantalizingly bounced up and fell into the net. Snakebit Villanova falls 67-46 to No 9 Georgetown 2012-02-25T23:37:08Z "I can't now," she replied, in an important tone, smiling tantalizingly at the tall, broad-shouldered boy who shook his racket at her with a threatening gesture. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z “Oh, someone,” answered Hinpoha tantalizingly, and with that he had to be content. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z Argentina lost the war but it has not forgotten it's historic claim to the islands that lie a tantalizingly close 300 miles off its coast. Argentina and Britain's Unfinished War: Hate Email, Harrassing Calls and Prince William 2012-02-06T09:40:00Z It lacks subways, and although it shares a name with nearby Wallabout Bay, its residents are cut off by the Navy Yard from the tantalizingly close waterfront. | Wallabout, Brooklyn: Wallabout, Brooklyn/Living In - At the Intersection of History and Industry 2012-01-20T20:05:18Z She flung back her head with a gesture that set truant curls tantalizingly astir and flapped the reins on the horse's back, but in quick afterthought she drew him down again. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z At last, after getting tantalizingly near to Newcastle-on-Tyne, the boat was tossed back on to the shores of Holland, where Montagu was waiting in great anxiety. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z This compares favorably with even 4-year-old children, who, as psychologists showed by asking them to wait to eat a marshmallow placed tantalizingly in front of them, averaged about five minutes. Opinion: Is Your Dog Smarter Than a 2-Year-Old? 2011-11-20T01:00:53Z And as she looked and listened, a butterfly, oh, so large and beautiful, with semi-transparent rose, pearl wings dotted and fringed with emerald gems, hovered tantalizingly near her. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z He smiled tantalizingly at her—so like a man! The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z He somersaults tantalizingly close to her mouth and then flips himself clear. Basics: Animal Cannibalism May Make Good Evolutionary Sense 2011-10-31T20:53:05Z But with a title tantalizingly close yet remaining elusive, this caused even more heartache. Texas Rangers establish unwanted tradition 2011-10-29T07:41:12Z Ernest Thompson Seton, always a boy, knows the impatience with which the opening of the burs is watched for, as the belated frosts keep off, and the burs hang tantalizingly closed. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z We often overlook easy little fixes because they lie just tantalizingly out of reach, near yet very far. Essay: Small Fixes: The Simplest Health Solutions? It?s Complicated 2011-09-26T22:14:50Z I’m going into decorating, too, and open a fine place of business,” giggled Dodo, tantalizingly. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z In the ocean of shadows, somewhere an immense distance away, one little light twinkled and blinked at them tantalizingly. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z “That would be telling,” was the reply, and the young man smiled tantalizingly. The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal 2011-09-05T02:00:21.637Z It’s no secret; at least not now,” she added tantalizingly. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z That brought the scandal tantalizingly close to U.S. law enforcement, although the Guardian indicated that the alleged misdeeds took place in the U.K., before the suspect had arrived state-side. What's happening to a model healthcare system? 2011-08-24T12:28:00Z "While girls are so tantalizingly coy, men will be audacious," said Storms, attempting to draw her toward him. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z On paper, a rebel victory looks tantalizingly close. The Rebel Road to Tripoli: There Will Be Blood 2011-08-21T05:50:00Z The two sides had come tantalizingly close to a deal, but stumbled again over the tax question. Special report: How Washington took the U.S. to the brink 2011-08-04T12:03:02Z “Oh, good night,” called Lola tantalizingly after her, as she banged the door. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z With eager eyes and cheeks aglow she began to break off a sprig here and there, lingering only to caress the snowy petals that tantalizingly brushed her cheek. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z But on Capitol Hill, hope for a grand bargain on deficit reduction, even as the Gang of Six comes tantalizingly close to a deal, has been fading. As Prospects for a Grand Debt Deal Fade, Gang of Six Shapes Plan B 2011-07-20T11:20:00Z |
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