Sentence examples for bent for doing from inspiring English sources
And certainly learners should be encouraged to think of the plays as performance texts, to act them if they have a bent for doing so, and to see first-rate performances, whether given by RSC actors or by gangling schoolboys such as Germaine Greer witnessed playing Hamlet in Australia.
But the stranger will obstinately continue to admire them for living and working in this land over which the sun seems to be bending low, and for doing more than live and work: for luxuriating in rhetoric, and topping rhetoric with opera.
In planning next month's grand birthday fetes, the palace had hoped the occasion would mellow the public reputation of the irascible, gaffe-prone Philip, whose bent for dismissing things he doesn't like or understand with brusque and lofty remarks has gained him unwanted headlines over the years.
None of what economists call "moral hazard" (paying the price of risk and failure) for people clearly bent on doing good.
Watch out for those friends who are bent on doing the wrong stuff and are controlling.
Conduit benders come in handy for doing this bending.
Hell bent, hell bent for leather. .
But while the city bent, it did not fold, not for a second.
The car lost contact with the upper rails, swayed and tipped on its side against a stanchion, which, fortunately for the screaming passengers, bent but did not snap.
