Sentence examples for bending the wind from inspiring English sources

I call it bending the wind.

When golf fans on the East Coast of the United States get up at 4 a.m. to catch some of the broadcast, they want to see the wind bending the flagsticks.

Bartok's music also brought out his sense of rhythm, his way of bending back from the regular beat, with all the pent-up energy of a sapling bending in the wind.

The corn rose over their heads and blew in waves, bending with the wind.

They had light-green façades and undulating rooflines, like blades of grass bending in the wind.

The noise of the rain was deafening now, and the gums behind the house were bending in the wind.

It's closer to a straw – bending in the wind to the direction of whoever's expressing a foreceful opinion.

Two years ago, when he became the FDP's boss, Mr Rösler compared himself to bamboo, which is strong but flexible, bending in the wind but not breaking.

Standing near the head of Glen Affric as darkness falls, I listen to the creak of an old pine tree bending in the wind.

"A View in a Garden at Hampstead," done around 1821, shows nature under a dark stormy sky, with trees bending in the wind.

Whether it was dropping the public option in Obamacare, kicking immigration reform into the long grass or going slow on gays in the military, Mr Obama has shown himself perfectly capable of bending with the wind: just ask those disgusted progressives.