Sentence examples for Natural bent from inspiring English sources

Moreover, it was in keeping with her natural bent.

When tragedy and comedy arose, poets wrote one or the other, according to their natural bent.

"There's a natural bent in some of the clubs to be sympathetic with the underdog," Mr. Botfeld said.

So much gesture". I realized it wasn't my natural bent to make a lot of noise and I'm not very good at rhetorical gesture.

Undoubtedly, these factors, plus his own natural bent for art, eventually led him to enter, about 1811, the school of the ukiyo-e master Utagawa Toyohiro.

This distinction goes back to Aristotle, who in the Rhetoric distinguished between ethos (natural bent, disposition, or moral character) and pathos (emotion) displayed in a given situation.

Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, when they would rather be learning to build things or fix things.

Although formally untutored in music, he had a natural musical bent and began to write songs as a young boy.

Her performances were also irrepressible expressions of her natural theatrical bent, and her craving for attention and devotion.

William is the voice of the film, partly because he has a natural philosophical bent and partly because he likes to talk.

Yet, Rigsbee also noticed an intensity in Rodgers, an "inner burn" often masked by what teammates now describe as Rodgers's natural, goofy bent.