Temptation
in example sentence
I did resist the
temptation
to skip to the back, where the shorter and more clearly mystical chapters are.
More example sentences with word temptation
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.
The other reason that it's difficult to resist
temptation
is because it's an unequal battle between the present self and the future self.
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