"Why Congress can't resist this temptation to engineer stuff is beyond me, " he sighs.
Apparently Fitzgerald couldn't resist the temptation to use taxpayer money to investigate and harass prominent people in the hope of turning something up, thus bagging high-profile scalps.
One thing I want to emphasize, and I'm saying this because I couldn't resist the temptation to watch a little bit of some of this coverage last night on TV.
So much so that after 20 years close up reporting on the original I can't resist the temptation to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's comment when Dan Quayle unwisely compared himself to John F.
The fact that even as he faced a Jewish audience, Jones couldn't resist the temptation to repeat the central fallacy at the root of the administration's failed policies in the Middle East makes clear that the Obama administration fundamentally does not care that the American people as a whole and the American Jewish community specifically oppose its policies.
That's not to say that true cybercrime doesn't hold a certain temptation.
Faced with a potential conflict of interest, you automatically conclude that it couldn't possibly offer any temptation to someone of superior character like you or those closest to you.
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If one isn't providing the overwhelming temptation to spit out slavish rehash after slavish rehash, the other often walks hand-in-hand with the philosophy that self-editing is for the artistically compromised.
Most journalists gravitate toward sensational and sexy stories (and I haven't been immune to the temptation) because we want the clicks and the ratings.
However, the temptation to cheat isn't much greater in the big city than it is in the suburbs, says Pamela Druckerman, author of Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee.
"The temptation is always there for the modern translator to look for strategies that make the text more accessible - and when that temptation comes, it doesn't hurt to turn for a moment - for some long moments indeed - to this extraordinary text, " he said.
But temptation, in politics as in other things, doesn't work like that.
But she said that teaching wasn't the same as performing - and that teachers had to avoid the temptation to fill every moment.
When there is something pleasant that one doesn't want to indulge in, like junk food or alcohol, the key to avoiding temptation is to interrupt the habitual response with a quick, easy alternative action, says Dr. Gollwitzer.
The temptation to sample it was almost overwhelming, but for what felt like forever, I didn't dare.
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