Sentence examples for temptation the from inspiring English sources

Even in temptation the contemplative should remain passive.

Piotr's father and Czeslaw spoke of the temptation, the vanity of the male.

Some, like Bloomberg, have resisted the temptation; the Bush Administration has not.

Avis comes across as the supplier of temptation, the enabler of seduction, a corporate madame.

Feeling himself slipping back toward temptation, the man asked for encouragement.

The passion, the temptation, the secret, and the woman in the child?

He sometimes wondered if the clergymen, overwhelmed by temptation & the need for travel had dipped into the collection plates for their expenses.

For the last four years Mr. Talen, also known as Reverend Billy, has been performing from the theaters of Bleecker Street to the Starbucks on Astor Place, exhorting people to resist temptation -- the temptation to shop -- and to smite the demon of consumerism.

But it was also a temptation - the subject has a fascinating side - so I agreed.

Bosch's great theme was human fallibility in the face of temptation the tenuous intermediary stages at which ordinary people make decisions, assailed by nefarious forces that might lead them astray.

Eunuchs who were emasculated voluntarily for the avoidance of sexual sin or temptation the Christian theologian Origen (c. ad 185 c. 254) being the most celebrated example—have appeared in several Christian periods, basing their action on the text of Matthew 19 12; 5 28 30.