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Example sentences for: temptation

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In the Sala Grande, see the high drama of Moses Striking Wate r from the Rock and a fascinating Temptation of Christ, with Satan portrayed as a beautiful youth.
It can accommodate the possibility that Clinton yielded to temptation as well as the (not completely incompatible) possibility that the whole thing was a vicious setup.
There is the temptation to take the company's side, and the contrary temptation to prove one's independence with ostentatious criticism.
Unlike Martin Scorsese, whose solemn 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ set off a similar firestorm, Smith has earned the wrath.
He lives them, wears them, and so is proofed against the temptation to follow the (logical) sequel to bourgeois success--the urge to abandon the self-denial that made it all possible, to mock your colleagues and spurn your peers, to return no e-mail, to call in sick from the beach house, to drink $20 bottles of wine every night, to watch porno movies in bed with ironic comp-lit graduate students, and to vanish for days on end in pursuit of un-bourgeois happiness.