Sentence examples for bend the word from inspiring English sources

One trick is to try and bend the word.

If you bend the word, (changing the syllables), your can make even the word orange rhyme.

You can bend the words and the metre, but it still has to fit somehow.

Tackling his task historically, he traces modern liberalism from its roots, when it tried to limit arbitrary power in the 17th and 18th centuries, through the growth of liberal democracy to the disputed legacy of liberal ideas today.Mr Starr's first and least serious tormentors are the rival sloganeers, to right and to left, who have bent the word liberal into a term of abuse.

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.

One of the recurring themes in the law of disability is the obligation of employers to make "reasonable accommodations" to the needs of the disabled — in other words, to bend the rules so that employees with physical and psychiatric problems can go on working.

If faith truly is committed to the quest for truth, however elusive that truth may be, should it not point out the corrosive effect of the words we use to bend the truth?

Readers can swipe through multiple elements (like word balloons) and images within a single panel, giving the writer and artist an opportunity to pack more story and content into a given space and, in Lee's words, "explore and bend the rules of traditional storytelling".

The most popular politicians are those who succeed in altering the script and reframing the debate – in other words, those who can bend the media to their will.

When his competitors whispered that he was bending the rules, those words were often ignored as jealous ramblings.

In fact, not a few were deliberately bending the prophet's words to suit their particular political ends.