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Of course, comparisons don't get any more invidious than those between movies and their source novels, and critics should abjure the temptation.
When Clinton says, "Let us resist the temptation to copy ourselves," it comes from a man not known for resisting other temptations of the flesh.
Among its masterpieces of international renown are The Adoration of St. Vincent, a multi-panel work attributed to the 15th-century Portuguese master, Nuno Gonçalves, and The Temptation of St. Anthony, a fantastic hallucination by Hieronymus Bosch, tempered with humor and executed with mad genius.
The temptation is to write a sneering comparison of rural and urban life.
Reviewing dictionaries of this kind--those similar in content and purpose to what are called “college” or “desk” dictionaries in the US--is probably quite useless in providing guidance to potential purchasers: there is always the temptation to carp at omissions, cavil at what are seen as infelicities in defining and other information, and argue one's case against the theories that are reflected in the organization of the text.