Sentence examples for temptation of having from inspiring English sources

Certainly, Joseph Connolly should have resisted the temptation of having two Lady Macbeths in a single story.

Mad About You even jumped ahead 20 years in the finale so that they could avoid the temptation of having a reunion.

They will help you in overcoming the temptation of having to be with someone for the time being.

Another problem is the temptation of bad faith — of having your cake and eating it, too.

Maybe it's just the effect of having temptation right in front of your eyes".

"The temptation of lust has been a strong theme in the past, and has never lost its power.

Schrader, who wrote "Raging Bull" and "The Last Temptation of Christ," has been down that road before.

Mrs. Fioratti writes in the preface to "Tempting Pandora," a 225-page book of scholarly essays, "The box is truly a temptation to have, to hold and, of course, to open, as poor Pandora discovered".

There is the temptation to have a lot of work done, as revealed by Mickey Rourke to gasps of audience horror in The Wrestler.

IN HIS "Odyssey", Homer immortalised the idea of resisting temptation by having the protagonist tied to the mast of his ship, to hear yet not succumb to the beautiful, dangerous songs of the Sirens.

It is interesting that just now, as all restraints save market logic and the temptations of glamour have fallen away, there is an effort to link American design with American Pragmatism, the philosophy that sought to formalize the show-me bedrock of American thought.