But, "you will remember me," Lydia writes, "bent over my labor, at my embroidery frame, on a hot June day in Paris, my dress like a field of flowers, my face calm.
So eventually Chadha decided to sit down with the daughter of a friend, an aspiring young film writer with a love of football called Guljit Bindra, and they wrote Bend it like Beckham.
Defending his review of one film, the Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote of "bending over backwards" to avoid Boyd-style beforeal before wondering "how a critic is expected to talk about the things he/she believes are centrally important" without verging on spoiler territory.
Ed Morrissey, another conservative Christian writer, wrote that bending the word of God to one's own ideology makes God subservient to an ideology, rather than the other way around.
"To straighten a bent stick," Michel de Montaigne wrote, "we bend it in the contrary way".
Mr. Olds's invocation of Doc Holliday's life, drenched in research, written by bending the English language into shapes it has never been made to assume before, gives back an interior richness that the legend of the cool gunslinger had lost.
He was "familiar with historical evidence", she wrote, and "bends it until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda".
In "Alone Together" (2011), she writes, "We bend to the inanimate with new solicitude.
"More than just a cog in the machine of "wealth management," Mossack Fonseca used its influence to write and bend laws worldwide to favor the interests of criminals over a decade".
Before I could swing open the door, my eyes spied the yellow sheet of paper, dangling from a weak magnet, on which I had written: "Contort = to twist, bend, draw out of shape.
