"rather tempting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is nearly irresistible. For example: "The buffet at the party was rather tempting."
Creamy chicken and ham casserole with artichokes, I found myself admitting, sounded rather tempting.
More strongly, Obama spoke about the positions that some politicians have found it easy or, rather, tempting, to push now and yet are dangerous or corrosive.
Skream, Sub Island (Soul Jazz) Rather tempting to write about this sort of stuff - the swinging, bass-heavy London-bred sound known as dubstep - without overwrought images of post-apocalyptic cityscapes sneaking into your prose.
The idea of a seven-year itch comes from the eponymous film starring Marilyn Monroe, who looked rather tempting when her dress was blown upwards as she stood over a subway vent.
Much paella lore – that, as Elisabeth Luard reports, "to be truly worthy of the name, the cook is always a man"; that the dish must always be prepared and eaten in the open air, "preferably in the shade of an old vine or fig tree", and always at midday, rather than dinnertime – can be happily disregarded as it suits … although come to think of it, that fig tree does sound rather tempting.
The 4GB is rather tempting for only $399, but I'm still going to wait for iPhone 2.0.
Everything now depends on Icarus II, a name that rather tempts providence.
One of the ideas of the book is about the unknowability or uncategorisability of human behaviour, and I was rather tempted into those ambiguous sexual areas".
By underlining what must prevail in the Wales camp, Gatland does rather tempt you to wonder if he has not encountered forces working in the opposite direction.
Despite Quebec's commitment to lowering greenhouse gas emissions at the Paris Climate Change Conference, the province seems rather tempted by the estimated 246 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 12.3 million barrels of oil that could be extracted each year from Anticosti.
Presented in a gallery setting, they focus the attention rather than tempting the eye to rove around.
