What is "tempting"

Usage examples of "tempting".

It is tempting to surmise that a culture chooses its most reviled species for ballistics research.

How tempting, how tantalizing, Bree thought, wishing it had come ages ago without prompting, without the need to rectify their undeclared war on each other.

Knowing what she was feeling, her breasts ached with anticipation, and she moved against the sensation of his erection without realizing, her body tempting him, teasing him, coaxing him.

Next, Yoshi and Anjo, however tempting, were not as important as Yokohama, so he had left them to other shishi here.

He took her to Pennyhill Park, and once in the Latymer Room she was forced to admit to herself that the food on the menu looked tempting, and with almost no breakfast inside her, lunch was a must, and once started on delicious lobster patties, tournedos Rossini, and a delicious ice cream, she discovered that she was hungry after all.

Isabel spent part of it in shopping, for she had found some small sums of money and certain odd corners in her trunks still unappropriated, and the handsome stores on the Rue Fabrique were very tempting.

It was tempting to see a connection between this imagery and the Andean traditions that spoke of the emergence of the civilizer god Viracocha from the waters of Lake Titicaca after an earth-destroying flood.

Although it was no doubt tempting to try to push on from Benghazi to Tripoli, and we may still use considerable forces in this direction, we have felt it our duty to stand with the Greeks, who have declared to us their resolve, even alone, to resist the German invader.

Frankly, I could do without the hassle of charging you, Miss Brannigan, but you make it very tempting.

Those that do remain, however, are well fed, for he still brings in the flies by tempting them with his food.

Let us pray that we may not be stained by those desires which the Enemy casts upon the ground like jewels, tempting us to pick them up for they glitter so brightly and their colors attract our eye.

It is tempting to believe that the duke continues alive only because it was Alfred who did the damage, Alfred who knows to preserve the duke for Queen Laurie.

Every once in a while the air shifted and she caught the scent of Eros, his skin a tempting aphrodisiac to her senses.

And the natural, where the sword, the estoque, is removed from behind the cape to make the cloth a smaller target, tempting the bull to charge at the largest thing it sees in its fury, the matador.

Can you really believe that our Dean would neglect the supervision of this teeming, troublesome dominion, to go wandering to and fro in the world, tempting and soliciting and signing Faustian contracts?