Sentence examples for The tempter from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone or something that tempts.
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?" asks Angelo, confronted with the nun he finds alluring.
Iblīs next appears as the tempter of in the Garden of Eden.
Watch out for Old Scratch the TEMPTER in the northeast, giving us the EVIL EYE.
Iblīs next appears as the tempter of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
To buy Dr. Faustus's eternal damnation cost the Tempter the essential knowledge of mankind.
"I think that when he was really tempted, O.K., the tempter was Toomey," he said.
Jason Antoon, the bartender/ tempter from the original cast of the musical "Contact," for example, plays a futuristic pornographer with similar show-bizzy zeal and those same independently moving eyebrows.
Centuries ago, the first word that would come to mind when a murder took place would be "sin," opening the door automatically to think about the great tempter and progenitor of sin, the serpent in the Garden.
It's a compelling performance well supported by Christine Bottomley as the suffering sister, Michael Shaeffer as the diabolical tempter and Peter Forbes as the ubiquitous librarian.
In the Koran, Satan is described as "the insidious tempter who whispers in the hearts of men".
The figure of St. Jimmy (Christian Montgomery), the Mephistophelian tempter who lures Johnny to heroin, seems wan in this production.
