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No, but it was tantalizingly close to something he did know.

Still, the President has come from a long way back, only to find it tantalizingly hard to make up the last few points.

A tantalizingly familiar woman who looked just short of her middle years.

Just like the future which, for the first time, seemed tantalizingly beyond her sight.

But, tantalizingly, he declined to say what his decision was.

Right there on my desk - tantalizingly close and yet so far.

From here it looked tantalizingly like the flower they had left.

Still, with major corporate and private support in place, the goal seemed tantalizingly close.

At times, the look in her blue eyes seemed so tantalizingly close to comprehension.

That it was, or at least tantalizingly close to decisive.

That is not to say they haven't come tantalizingly close to the big time.

At times, the evidence of a cover-up has seemed tantalizingly close.

That meant he was tantalizingly close to having recorded them all.

He changed direction and charged after the second who was so tantalizingly close.

I could see the mast on the higher ground, tantalizingly close.

From where he was it remained tantalizingly beyond his field of vision.

A few recent discoveries have seemed to come tantalizingly close to Jesus himself.

The next thousand feet look easy; the summit seems tantalizingly close.

He came tantalizingly close to her crotch, but never quite got there.

And it was also tantalizingly near his own starved body.

It hung there like the sun, tantalizingly out of reach.

Kirk looked up with those words playing back in his mind, so tantalizingly familiar.

But no matter what he did, the picture remained tantalizingly incomplete.

Even when nothing remains of the face, what was once there is tantalizingly yours to imagine.

That sum has remained tantalizingly out of reach for several years.