"sweet temptation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is attractive and tempting but may be bad for you. For example, "The chocolate cake was a sweet temptation that was hard to resist."
In "Run 2 U," she sings, "Let me crash into u"; in "2 Become 1," she sings, "Melt into me now"; in "Sweet Temptation," she sings about what happens "When u fall into me"; and in "U & Me = Love," she sings, "Won't u crash into me?" These are lyrics that are begging to be ignored.
Mr. Cooder's own collection includes "The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation (1946-1953)," "Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant (both at www.musicspace.com) and "Speedy West Featuring Jimmy Bryant: There's Gonna Be a Party" (www.jasmine-records.co.uk).
This resolution for many of us usually lasts as long as the first doughnut or other sweet temptation is offered.
With a sad sigh, I close the bathroom cabinet on her sweet temptation, and stumble back to my slow, patchy life, with my slow, patchy brain.
After all, it would be hard for a mere snake to offer an apple while whispering sweet temptations.
Studying the complex brain response to such sweet temptations has offered clues as to how we might one day control a profound health problem in the country: the obesity epidemic.
"We need a culture change in offices and other workplaces that encourages healthy eating and helps workers avoid caving in to sweet temptations such as cakes, sweets and biscuits," said the dean of the faculty, Prof Nigel Hunt.
Back to Sweet Temptations.
Hydration keeps mental functioning optimal and saves you from giving in to sweet temptations.
I frankly imagine its verbal daggers will be less envenomed: age can prompt even the most cynical to realize not only nostalgia's sickly-sweet temptation but also its usefulness.
The same sweet, convulsive temptations that have brought low any number of American icons, from James Dean to River Phoenix, thus far have not visited him.
