All 3 Uses

tantalize
in
An Ember in the Ashes
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There's a Mercator girl in a tantalizingly flimsy dress eyeing me from the door leading to the crowded garden.†
p. 103.6 *

tantalizingly = in a manner that makes someone excited about getting something
I chase after her, my fingers brushing the wetness of her face for one tantalizing second.†
p. 323.9

tantalizing = making someone excited about getting something
Lightning splits the sky, illuminating the battlefield for a tantalizing moment.†
p. 334.3

Definitions:

(1) (tantalize)
to make someone excited about getting something -- often something they cannot get

The word, tantalize, comes from a Greek mythological story about the eternal punishment of someone named Tantulus. He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree. But when he reached up for the fruit, it withdrew just out of his reach. And when he bent down to drink, the water receded before his lips could reach it.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)