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Example sentences for: temptation

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Avoid the temptation to micromanage design reviews.
The game has attracted considerable attention because it seems useful to deduce why humans and animals cooperate in such games when the temptation to defect is the rational solution.
Its name was first written down as betcherrygah , that being a transliteration of the Yuwaalaraay word gijirrigaa (Yuwaalaraay being a language similar to the better-known Kamilaroi), but the temptation to explain the word had triumphed over the etymologizing process as early as 1848, when the spelling budgery garr was preferred, and the first element explained as meaning in the black's language--good or handsome.
Now, Culturebox may well be correct that hungry young males (or hungry old defense attorneys, or jurors of all ages and appetites) are incapable of resisting the temptation of "tout comprendre, tout pardonner ." But if so, then it is hardly a triumph for her preferred "willed culture" over the animal model; rather, it is a subtler, richer application of the evolutionary psychologists' fundamentally wise observation: that social institutions fail unless they treat humans as the instinct-driven creatures they are, and avoid pretending that they are the self-defining logical and aesthetic intellects that Culturebox would like them to be.
Lukacs does not himself always resist the temptation of Hitlerology.