untempted

• “You might have noticed that in the above characterization of myself as untempted, temptation presents itself — or rather fails to present itself --- in the form of women putting the moves on me.”

  Lance Mannion:

• “In legislating so that securitizers "won't sell garbage to investors," Congress wisely mandates that securitizers be long in assets pooled -- assets in which transactions would otherwise leave securitizers neutral and untempted by any opportunity to short.”

  The Huffington Post: Louis M. Guenin: Regulating Collateralized Debt Obligations, the Elephant in the Room Untouched by Financial Reform Bills

• “She sneers at his hospitality and says that she's untempted by the meal he prepares for her.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “If one of the prosecutors had just sent a Democratic Congressman to jail, would you be totally untempted by the White House explanation that the real cause was, say, a reluctance to prosecute abortion-clinic protesters under RICO?”

  Michael Kinsey on U.S. Attorney Firings

• “In 1976, unlike most who called themselves conservatives, Cheney remained untempted by Reagan and clung to Ford, his best ticket to ride.”

  Cheney: The Fatal Touch

• “Crumple sighed again — he had learned the impotency of worldly wealth, and would have been satisfied, if left untempted, to have remained happy with one and sixpence a day.”

  The Warden

• “True, there was no overt sexual chemistry between us; in fact, we were so untempted by each other that we would share a room as chastely as siblings.”

  Simon & Schuster: Living Alone and Loving It

• “Kincaid plunged down the hill, untempted by the effervescent atmosphere.”

  Simon & Schuster: All Shall Be Well

• “I am myself untempted by that procedure, essentially for the reason given.”

  John R. Hicks - Prize Lecture

• “Quite the little Lord Apollo, thought Sulla, unmoved and untempted.”

  The First Man in Rome

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