Perhaps not coincidentally, one of Vargas Llosa's most recent books, "The Temptation of the Impossible," is a study of Hugo's "Les Misérables".
Not surprisingly, as Indian industrialists have amassed great fortunes in recent years, the temptation to buy into a zone where status is so nakedly demarcated and only a few hundred private properties exist has proved irresistible.
So twice in recent times, the temptation to use Guantánamo as an offshore, extralegal prison camp has mired a presidential administration in legal and moral muck.
In your recent disappointment in cinema, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, your leading actress (played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell) get infected with HIV and loses her marriage based on her ambition to overall pursue a better career as a marriage counselor.
Similarly, in the chapter about "Richard III," centered on the elusiveness of "fact," Garber provides a long list of recent examples of "the temptations to rewrite history": the weapons of mass destruction argument for waging war on Iraq, the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman stories, and (yawn) even James Frey.
There is no point in this electoral cycle, or recent electoral cycles, when the temptation in Scotland to break away would have been stronger than next Thursday.
Despite the temptation to liken recent dot-com demises to a snowball gaining size and speed, Winblad suggested that venture capitalists are merely cleaning out their portfolios in an attempt to start 2001 with a clean slate.
Lorraine Heath's most recent novel is Lord of Temptation, and her next novel has one of my favorite titles ever: Lord of Wicked Intentions.
Some attribute it to the temptations of a recent bull market and a desire to get rich quick.
Temptations to smoke are typically examined among current smokers and recent quitters [ 37, 38], though temptations to try smoking have been examined as predictors of smoking initiation [ 39].
WITH all the recent corporate scandals, there's a temptation to call for new regulations and laws that will ensure no such malfeasance occurs again.
