Sentence examples for temptation I from inspiring English sources

In each case, greater self-control supports individuals in resisting immediate temptation (i.e., choices with immediate payoffs and long-term costs) and in making long-term investments (i.e., choices with immediate costs and long-term payoffs).

In the matrix 1, T represents the Temptation, i.e., the payoff that an agent gains if it defects while its opponent cooperates, while S the Sucker's payoff, i.e., the gain achieved by a cooperator while the opponent defects.

Despite the temptation, I politely excused myself.

If I have a temptation I go for it.

Quickly succumbing to temptation, I buy an ornate mirror, haggling it down to half price.

To avoid future temptation, I decided to go online to buy birthday gifts in bulk.

Self-regulation refers to all efforts to steer attention, emotions, and behaviors to reach beneficial long-term goals (i.e., weight loss), even when there are short-term temptations (i.e., a nice cookie) or conflicting long-term goals [ 33].

In "Far From the Fresh Air Farm: The Crowded City Street, With Its Dangers and Temptations, Is a Pitiful Makeshift Playground for Children" (1911), every figure in the swarming, pushcart-packed scene is an idiosyncratic individual, and you can almost sniff the fetid air of a Lower East Side slum.

"As I got older, I understood the temptations, I understood those things; me and him have a better relationship now.

I know the temptations – I was the biggest mugger as an actor, and it's natural to play up a performance a bit".

Signalling to the barman that I was ready to give in to one of the Germanic gastronomic temptations, I mustered the courage to ask a question that always seems to cause a stir, wherever I am in the world.