The novel is magical; but such a success holds for the novelist a temptation to cast himself as a magician and stuff his sleeves for every performance onstage.
Under the influence of Boaz, Don yields to still greater forms of temptation, but Boaz himself unapologetically carries the unscrupulous ploy to shocking and brazen extremes.
Clegg needs to find the confidence to articulate the differences and resist the temptation to restrict himself to areas where he agrees with Cameron.
As many of his contemporaries -- most notably Quentin Tarantino -- have spawned legions of imitators and flirted with mannered self-imitation, Mr. Soderbergh has remained stubbornly idiosyncratic and has resisted the temptation to repeat himself.
The third shrewd thing Cebrowski has done is resist the temptation to throw himself onto the immense grindstone of the annual budget process, which has pulped generations of reformers.
HE had resisted the temptation to cast himself in the first 11 musicals he wrote that were produced, including the one that a reviewer described as "Agatha Christie meets Gilbert and Sullivan".
McEnroe might have brought another doubles player, an Alex O'Brien, a Jared Palmer, but he played it straight in Zimbabwe and Los Angeles, resisted the temptation to nominate himself and lost the doubles in both events.
It was that he – unlike Blair – paid a substantial price for resisting with unflinching determination as shadow Chancellor the temptation to ingratiate himself with his party by allowing the kind of expansionist tax and spending programme that much of it would have preferred.
When his own depression returned for good in 2000, he wrote a note in case he succumbed to the almost constant temptation to kill himself (though in fact he died six years later from pneumonia): "I hope that readers of 'Darkness Visible' — past, present and future — will not be discouraged by the manner of my dying.
It is the sort of value destruction that would often prompt investors to clamour for the chief exec's head, but so far Glencore's second-largest shareholder has resisted the temptation to oust himself, and he will be in the boss's chair to present the company's results this week.
