Sentence examples for a temptation of from inspiring English sources

The Godfather is a temptation of Christ for Nietzschean times – when the Don is dead, will-to-power affirms itself as a "yes!" to criminal life.

This belief in the power of penitence seems to have applied, by extension, to a temptation of which I was thankfully ignorant when I was a seminarian — the desire to have sex with children.

This belief in the power of penitence seems to have applied, by extension, to a temptation of which I was thankfully ignorant when I was a seminarian the desire to have sex with children.

"It was a recognition by Elsa of a temptation of mine," Rush said, "to do something too expository too soon," in this case to explain what Ned was thinking ("He was forgetting the war")  "rather than let the facts develop out of further action.

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The presence of a TV is enough of a temptation to watch it.

It was a temptation to rid spirit of body entirely.

It's too much of a temptation for Wilson.

It is a temptation to which some of his age and stature have succumbed.

Such increases proved a temptation for the owner of the Hazelwood Road property in Walthamstow, east London.

For some people, a credit card is too much of a temptation to handle.