Sentence examples for appears bent from inspiring English sources

Opponents of sense data object to premise (1) on grounds similar to those considered in section 2.1: namely, it may be that what one is directly aware of merely appears bent but is not in fact bent.

A straight stick appears bent when partly immersed in water and viewed at an angle to the surface other than 90°.

Maybe it's a better agreement better for the American middle class, for American workers than it seems in the leaked drafts, where it appears bent to the will of multinational corporations.

Maybe it's a better agreement — better for the American middle class, for American workers — than it seems in the leaked drafts, where it appears bent to the will of multinational corporations.

The real fault lies with a regime that appears bent on crushing the spirit of a woman simply because her husband was recognized for what the Nobel committee called "his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". That regime claims to offer a new model of greatness for other nations to emulate.

(He has played golf at least 159 times since taking office but never once visited U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria). Proving George Santayana's maxim that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," he appears bent on repeating the very mistakes Truman warned about.

If you have macular degeneration, some of the lines will appear bent or distorted.

The frame does not appear bent to me, but what do I know?

He discovered the law of refraction, which explains why a straight stick can appear bent when partly immersed in water (though this discovery had been made earlier and independently).

Mr. Tenet said that the reformist political movement in Iran seemed to be losing momentum, and that Tehran's security forces, under the control of fundamentalist clerics, appeared "bent on countering the U.S. presence," in Afghanistan.

"We cannot allow the Bosnia war to start again". Yet immune to the consequences for Bosnia, the US, Britain and France appear bent on recognising Kosovan independence under a novel system of EU-supervised sovereignty, no matter what Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority, Serbia, Greece, Russia and the UN may say.