Sentence examples for tempting danger from inspiring English sources

We were driving through Port-au-Prince as dusk fell, and he would interrupt his own discourse on trade rules or egg imports to ask the driver why a fire was burning on the roadside or to complain that our headlights were tempting danger or to mumble that the police escort, which he suspected of working for the opposition, shouldn't sound its sirens.

Apparently it took the Romantic movement to make mountains seem mysterious in their wildness, tempting in their danger.

("And it is tempting to believe that the danger is behind us. That hope is understandable, comforting and false").

Twenty-eight months have passed since September the 11th, 2001 - over two years without an attack on American soil - and it is tempting to believe that the danger is behind us.

Stressing the power grid with heavier and heavier loads, while good for profits and energy savings, does seem like tempting fate, given the looming danger of solar EMP assaults.

Asking these types of questions, as tempting as they are to ask, bring about certain dangers that can result in skewed results, missing information, and, potentially, failed products.

As politically tempting as these sort of rhetorical devices may be, there are dangers that come with using them.

Danger often tempts negotiators to play hardball, using coercion to make deals.

The only danger is that these currency appreciations begin to feed on themselves, tempting "carry-traders" to make money by stoking the process for as long as they can.

It's tempting to conclude that stars are most effective playing on home territory, but there's a danger in that, too.

After the fact, the loophole is self-evident, and it's tempting to believe that now political leaders will work harder to keep people who are dangers to themselves from becoming dangers to others by buying guns.