Sentence examples for form of temptation from inspiring English sources

Though the witches do not deliberately tell Macbeth to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they inform Macbeth that he is destined to be king.

As a result, a number of them are led into common forms of temptation.

Under the influence of Boaz, Don yields to still greater forms of temptation, but Boaz himself unapologetically carries the unscrupulous ploy to shocking and brazen extremes.

In Paradise Lost, this takes the form of the temptation of Eve.

One main source of temptations to commit a fallacy is a misleading or misunderstood linguistic form of a purported inference; mistakes due to this kind of temptation are known as verbal fallacies.

The nine-item short form of the Temptations to Smoke Inventory (TSI) [ 26] was used to assess smoking abstinence self-efficacy.

The Web will get even more chaotic, with new forms of annoyance, temptation and danger.

It's an assault course of temptations.

We used the short form of the Situational Temptation Inventory (STI) [30, 31].

Companies, of course, are masters of temptation.

Our failure to give any value to the last phase of life, our insistence on health and safety above all, has led to a dependence on care homes that are little more than parking places; Gawande is rightly scathing about a system that exists largely as a form of containment, where the temptation is to deal with people as if they are inconvenient.