I surrendered to temptation, committed selfish acts of betrayal, and destroyed any chance of trust and reconciliation in my marriage..
I surrendered to temptation, committed selfish acts of betrayal, and destroyed any chance of trust and reconciliation in my marriage...
Despite the ranger warnings and our mantra about rising waters, we surrendered to temptation, plunged our feet into one of the ankle-deep creeks and sloshed our way to the pool's edge.
Whether adapting EM Forster or (one would think) more cinematically resistant works like Remains of the Day and (one of my favourites) Mr and Mrs Bridge, Jhabvala's talent is to capture the essence, to bring out the universality of her subject without surrendering to the temptation to make it more topical, more relevant.
The longer "Spring Breakers" goes on, the more its creator comes to resemble its characters in his swooning surrender to temptation, and by the time Alien noodles around on a grand piano, in a peachy twilight, on the waterfront, and croons Britney Spears's "Everytime," while Cotty, Brit, and Candy writhe along, cradling assault weapons and a shotgun, Korine has mislaid any claim to moral distance.
My surrender to temptation is of no real consequence.
Unlike Mattson, Frank does not surrender to any temptation to novelize, even though he is a novelist, the author of a well-regarded "Washington trilogy" that includes "The Columnist" (2001).
Like many black men who surrender to the temptation to become oppressor for a day, Ali occasionally did the white man's work for him, like when he viciously painted Joe Frazier as a racial sellout during the buildup to their third, most consequential battle in the Philippines in 1975.
Refuse to surrender to the temptation of revealing your true feelings.
"surrendering to FF" — Johnny Schroepfer.
Surrendering to most demands.
