Sentence examples for human temptation from inspiring English sources

"It is human temptation [to read] what is said about you, but you have to resist".

"The discipline of these guidelines is intended to fortify self-discipline, to minimize natural human temptation," Mr. Keller told me.

Camus's purpose is to dramatize the psychology of pathological violence as a self-defining act, and his point, though open to debate with Tony Snow, is that violence may arise not as a result of premeditation and ideological fixation but as a sporadic and unplanned impulse, a kind of perpetual human temptation.

Its five thousand words, all extemporized, add up to a passionate warning against being a "drum major" — against succumbing to the "drum major instinct," a universal human temptation defined as "a desire to be out front, a desire to lead the parade, a desire to be first".

Arab bigotry has not magically gone away, nor has the human temptation to drown fear with blood.

This was not inefficiency but an ethical practice that tempered the human temptation to take, take, and continue taking without sharing.

To be accepted as human, as equal to whites, the black pioneers of the era had to rise above all kinds of ordinary human temptations — to fight back, to show anger or fear — and become flawless exemplars of their race.

If the Kremlin or the secret services want to destroy an inconvenient satirist or an irritating journalist, they often find a way to lure him into the usual human temptations, record the proceedings, and make the results public.

9. Cf. the effect on autonomy of human temptations, obsessions and compulsions.

The magi discovered that a thirst for power, pleasure, wealth, and fame will only leave us wanting more, and that we can have hope and true peace in the midst of our human temptations and struggles.

When law enforcement officials make mistakes, there is an all-too-human temptation to press on rather than admit an error.