Sentence examples for evil temptation from inspiring English sources

While that might be a great thing for, say, heart surgeons, for winemakers it is an evil temptation.

Parents tend to approach video games like junk food: games are fine in moderation but ultimately they are an evil temptation that's more bad than good.

And, in the checkout lane, where merchandisers plot their evil temptation plans the best, was a shelf lined with candy and gum.

No mammograms because your boss belongs to a recently-invented-by-him religion which preaches that breasts are an evil temptation wrought by Satan to lure men.

By the end of the fifth century, Christianity had come to condemn sexual desire as inherently shameful and as an evil temptation that must be suppressed.

Around his neck he wears a long rope of stones, which is closely related to the Buddhist rosary of 108 beads reflecting the 108 evil temptations of humans.

Some of the more fascinating items include the oldest dated miter from 1681, another that lacks a date but is believed to be about a century older, and a pair of liturgical slippers intricately adorned on the soles with images of a scorpion and a snake, a sort of final barrier between the priest and evil temptations.

However, if we want smut to remain an instrument of Satan's evil temptations, it should describe food.

As Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony rumbled to its climax, as happiness vanquished evil and temptation onstage, Massine's famed allegorical vision of 1933 became suddenly a metaphor for the Joffrey's own triumphant battle for survival.

In August, when Fletcher's re-election ad campaign began airing on television in Kentucky, journalists began calling Weisner's office about the ads which used the footage as a backdrop for a message regarding the evils and temptations casinos bring into communities.

There are no innocents in Scorsese's vision; the movie is a unified field of dubious desire, of temptation, evil, and sin.