Sentences with 'tempting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tempting and other words derived from it.
• « While it is tempting to characterise European intellectual life before 1000 CE as part of a 'dark age', this was obviously no longer the case in the eleventh century. »
• « It is tempting to see these years, especially the interwar period between 1918 and 1939, as nothing more than the setting for the Second World War, but a more accurate picture reveals them to be much more than a mere prequel. »
• « Given the speed with which empires collapsed, it is tempting to imagine that European states simply recognised the moral bankruptcy of imperialism after the Second World War and peacefully relinquished their possessions. »
• « Why Nicaragua? Nicaragua presented a tempting target because it provided a quick route from the Caribbean to the Pacific: Only twelve miles of land lay between the Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua's inland lake and the river that flowed into the Atlantic. »