The phrase "a bent spring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a spring that has been deformed or twisted out of its original shape, often in a mechanical or engineering context.
Example: "The mechanism failed because of a bent spring that prevented it from functioning properly."
Alternatives: "a twisted spring" or "a warped spring".
Lulu walks around the house half dressed, sometimes rubbing up against Pops; she's a baby in need, too, but a fleshy, sexy one — the only woman in a house filled with men and the dusty fixtures of Pops's past, including a bent Christmas tree that he can't seem to throw out, just as he can't throw out the bent lives that surround him.
Lulu walks around the house half dressed, sometimes rubbing up against Pops; she's a baby in need, too, but a fleshy, sexy one the only woman in a house filled with men and the dusty fixtures of Pops's past, including a bent Christmas tree that he can't seem to throw out, just as he can't throw out the bent lives that surround him.
In Martin Sherman's "Bent" (1979), a play about the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, McKellen's character was forced by S.S. guards to beat his boyfriend to death and have sex with a dead girl to "prove" that he wasn't homosexual.
If Murray's career is mainly in film -- including Ghostbusters, Rushmore, Hyde Park on Hudson, and the groundbreaking Groundhog Day (1993) -- Gere has also performed onstage, notably in Bent (1980), playing a homosexual concentration camp inmate during World War II.
In the Berlin-set Nazi-era drama Bent (1997), he gave a small but searingly memorable role as the drag queen Greta.
Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated Arabidopsis transformation was performed according to a modified floral dip method (Clough and Bent, 1998).
Because, unlike most crops, Arabidopsis is almost exclusively transformed via Agrobacterium-mediated floral dip methods that do not utilize tissue culture (Clough and Bent, 1998), Arabidopsis is not a good model for the study of the effect of plant regeneration on the epigenome.
He received Laurence Olivier Awards for his work in the London stagings of such plays as Bent (1979), Wild Honey (1984), and Richard III (1991).
Once, after attending the opening of Martin Sherman's "Bent" (1979) on Broadway, they went backstage with Rader to see its star, Richard Gere.
