Sentence examples for temptation toward from inspiring English sources
The phrase "temptation toward" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing a tendency or inclination to give in to a desire or urge. Example: "She felt a strong temptation toward indulging in sweets despite her diet."
Despite the temptation toward heroics, hail storms and their damage are best dealt with after the fact.
For male chief executives, this daughter-driven empathy spike may account for more generous impulses toward employees that temper the temptation toward wage cuts.
It's only in the last scene that Mr. Lipton succumbs to that dangerous dramatic temptation toward didacticism, clubbing his audience over the head with a long monologue about free will and the evils of war.
The more negative case is that to the extent that conservative Catholics in the United States find themselves actively disagreeing with Pope Francis's emphases, whether on political issues or matters internal to the church or both, it might help cure them/us of the recurring Catholic temptation toward papolatry.
I wrote a great deal about this temptation toward conspiracy theorizing in my recent book, from which I'll take the liberty of quoting: Like Elizabethan buffs in search of the "real" Shakespeare, the questers for the historical Jesus turn out to be masters of detection and geniuses at codebreaking, capable of seeing through every cover-up and unpacking every con.
Consider the case of Rod R. Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, who was forced from office for effectively trying to sell a vacant Senate seat — and then multiply that by the thousands of legislators who would, under the 19th-century rules, meet with the same temptation toward corruption.
Because couches are less comfortable, they offer fewer temptations toward "base thoughts," she explains.
But it will also face exponentially more rivals for attention, and many more temptations toward superficiality and sellouts.
"At such moments, any temptations toward euphoria have to be restrained by a recognition that future developments are unpredictable and potentially unpleasant," says a very reasonable Jeff Weintraub.
But the history of House ethics points beyond, or below, the nation's resounding ideals to the workaday reality of a Congress driven by big-money campaign contributions and temptations toward quid pro quo sellouts.
For ten years, I lived in countries shaped by authoritarianism Egypt, Iraq, China and I don't for a moment take for granted the work of defending against the temptations toward autocracy.
