Temptation
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Medieval lore stated that a hunter could only capture a unicorn when it lay its horn in the lap of a virgin, so a unicorn could symbolize either sexual
temptation
or Christ being captured by his enemies.
More example sentences with word temptation
I did resist the
temptation
to skip to the back, where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.
Scholars have long invoked this metaphor of two selves when it comes to questions of
temptation.
Well resisting
temptation
is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
But resisting
temptation
is hard.
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