This zesty condensation of an 18-volume, 1300-page epic is a model of streamlining, even if the narrative’s many tantalizing threads, emotions and complications could stand to be fleshed out even more.

Both teams had some tantalizing near misses in a surprisingly open, if scoreless, first half.

The findings also cast the humble single-cell creatures in a new, more tantalizing light: They are not merely molecular machines packed in microscopic bodies, but they are also agents that can learn.

It was absolutely tantalizing, came together in under a half hour and called for only a handful of ingredients.

It was a typically tantalizing New York night owned by — sorry, it must be said — Los Angeles, Los Angeles.