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Tempting in sentence

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And so I think the tempting analogy for the boom-bust that we just went through with the Internet is a gold rush.
Once you've figured this out, it is tempting to keep writing the same poem, or keep telling the same story, over and over, once you've figured out that it will gain you applause.
This perhaps is why we find the God complex so tempting.
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?
It's tempting.
So a tempting generalization for a child, for an adult, for a computer is that any verb that can appear in the construction, "subject-verb-thing-to-a-recipient" can also be expressed as "subject-verb-recipient-thing."
Most of them aren't based on the Internet yet, but they're starting to use the Internet for service functions, for administrative functions, and so if you take something like the cell phone system, which is still relatively independent of the Internet for the most part, Internet pieces are beginning to sneak into it in terms of some of the control and administrative functions, and it's so tempting to use these same building blocks because they work so well, they're cheap, they're repeated, and so on.
It gets tempting at that point to use your economic nous to manipulate the rules of the global political economy in your own favor.
Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favor.
To shame and blame is so deliciously tempting.
Now, there are other ways to redistribute wealth, which it can be tempting to use.
Inflation: it's much easier to print money than to write a tax code, so that's very tempting, but sometimes you don't know what you do with the money.
Expropriation is very tempting.
It's really tempting, as an engineer, always to come up with a high-tech, super-crazy high-tech solution, but in fact, you're in the rainforest.
The first tempting answer is, "I'm not moving."
So, a second tempting answer is, "19 miles/second around the Sun."
It may seem like a tempting offer, but perhaps it's not as ideal as it sounds.
When we hear the word radiation, it's tempting to picture huge explosions and frightening mutations, but that's not the full story.
Very rarely is it possible to prove or predict something with certainty, yet it's so tempting to make a sweeping, unqualified statement.
The impulse to respond in kind is so tempting, but that isn't who we want to be.
It's tempting to offer up general decision-making principles, like minimize harm, but even that quickly leads to morally murky decisions.
Nonetheless, skepticism about truth can be tempting, because it allows us to rationalize away our own biases.
"It's so tempting, he just couldn't help himself."
So it's hardly surprising that it is kind of tempting for those suppliers to come together and fix prices.
Now, this is very tempting, but I decided to go back and look at the TED website's very humble beginnings.
It might be tempting to laugh at an example like this, to say, "Well, who would believe this, anyway?"
NB: I think it is an option, a very tempting option, it's in a sense the easiest option and it might work, but it means we are fundamentally vulnerable to extracting a black ball.
I'm not suggesting the crowds are about to storm the barricades and string up every investment banker from the nearest lamppost, though that might be quite tempting.
And it's so tempting to think that it's all about me.
The target market is as tempting as it can get.
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