Sentence examples for bent from inspiring English sources

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.55am BST11 55 Andy Wilson with news about the Stratford Literary Festival One for Warwickshire supporters, and anyone else of a literary and/or thespian bent.

He said: "If you took EastEnders and ruined it … on some ideological bent, the audience would be absolutely outraged.

Toward the end of Bernanos's beautiful novel, the country priest of the title takes a motorcycle ride with M. Oliver, who'd been sent away to the army at 18. Like Larry Darrell in Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, Olivier's service has left him with a philosophical bent and a scepticism about the society he has returned to.

He was balding even in youth, a little bent and a little brooding over his typewriter so they seemed joined in intensity.

I am convinced that always feeling on the periphery – not being "one of them" but not "one of us" either – made me observe and report news through a slightly different prism, one where I had a natural bent for the outsider, and perhaps a hypersensitivity to injustice.

However, her disjointed 33-minute speech – in which she described President Barack Obama as an "overgrown little boy who is acting kinda spoiled", and declared "the man can only ride you when your back is bent" – received poor reviews even from some conservatives.

"An opposition that promises more of the same is no opposition at all," said Leanne Wood, underlining her conviction that she will not prop up a Labour government "hell-bent on implementing Tory cuts".

8d5ff47e-2274-461a-82af-081a6ea0e85d talkingice have been talking up the dangers presented by the forthcoming G20 protests in London, creating fears of widespread disruption and violence caused by hordes of marauding anarchists hell-bent on destroying our society.

Earlier this month, concerned citizens of Antigua Island reported illegal clearing of mangroves by a Chinese firm hell-bent on delivering one more mega-tourism development replete with golf courses, marinas, casinos and hotels, almost mirroring a similar Chinese development disaster on Bimini Island in the Bahamas.

President Barack Obama is a "Marxist-Leninist" hell-bent on destroying freedom – a dictator who lights his cigarettes with smouldering copies of the constitution as he invites brown-skinned aliens to overrun the country, and imposes socialism upon us all.

This expansion is further proof that the Abbott government is hell-bent on turning Australia into a reckless charco-state that solely represents the interests of fossil fuel and coal companies.