Sentence examples for bend sinister from inspiring English sources
noun
A diagonal band on a coat of arms going from top right to bottom left (as you look at it), held to indicate bastardy.
Wilson did not hesitate to tell Nabokov that he did not like "Bend Sinister," "Lolita," "Ada," and other major works.
His first novels in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947), do not rank with his best Russian work.
I opted, finally, for the shorter of Nabokov's two great defences of the free individual against the state, Invitation to a Beheading (1935), older sibling of Bend Sinister (1947).
Time and again, Nabokov disclaimed any interest in what he called "bloated topicalities," and yet he wrote two dystopian satires ("Invitation to a Beheading" and "Bend Sinister"), and there are many tragic pages in the short stories (and in "Pnin").
In the future, an undergraduate in a Nabokov seminar, reading the master through for the first time, will be able to write a term paper about how "Mister Morn" anticipates "Bend Sinister" and "Pale Fire".
With its playful games about identity and its framing of stories within a story "Mister Morn" presages aspects of Nabokov's tricky 1962 novel "Pale Fire," much the way its examination of the dynamic between the personal and the political serves as a kind of harbinger of issues in "Bend Sinister" (1947).
The blazon received in 1952 read: "Azure, three wavy bends sinister argent, overlaid with a lion contourné crowned with closed crown Or, with forked tail, langued and armed gules, swinging with the right forepaw a sword Or, and maintaining in the left a shield azure with three crowns Or, arranged two and one".
The idea of a sinister force able to bend people to its will has long been a staple of science fiction.
This set the stage for Michael Crichton's thriller "Rising Sun," in which "they" -- the Japanese -- are "sinister forces" bent on manipulating "sincere, decent folk".
Those who created comic books, penny arcades and rock'n'roll have been seen as sinister figures bent on seducing children into becoming juvenile delinquents.
Yes! Continuing his near-perfect record of referring to political opponents as sinister forces bent on undermining the nation, Romney said he was dropping out so the Republicans wouldn't lose the race to the Democratic terror-surrenderers. Can you see the next nine months stretching out before you, people?
