The phrase "bent of mind" is a correct and usable construct in written English.
It means having a particular inclination or tendency towards a certain thought or behavior. It is typically used in a formal or literary context. Example: Her bent of mind towards humanitarian causes led her to volunteer at a refugee camp in Africa.
It was a natural friendship, in part because Blaine has always had a scientific bent of mind, which is not unusual for a magician.
She is a realist with a speculative bent of mind, a writer of postmodern inclinations with the instincts of an old-fashioned entertainer.
In the case of "Bent of Mind" (2009), the highly polished, rippling stainless-steel surface of the sculpture reflects and distorts the images of everything around it, seeming to draw the viewer into the vortex.
Galchen characterizes Charles Babbage, the nineteenth-century inventor of a precursor to the computer, as someone with "a bent of mind so odd that he once wrote to Alfred Lord Tennyson correcting his math.
The parallel with Deutsch is striking: for all his eccentricities and his self-imposed isolation, he is very much in touch with the world, and quite aware of his own "bent of mind".
Because he was a moralist rather than a philosopher by temperament which probably precipitated his famous question, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"—Tertullian's practical and legal bent of mind expressed what would later be taken as the unique genius of Latin Christianity.
But the bent of his mind was not academic or scholarly.
The classical bent of his mind and his abilities as a decorator made him the ideal collaborator with Le Brun, just as Antoine Coysevox was with Le Brun's successor, Jules Hardouin Mansart.
Shelley tried it once, in The Cenci (1819), but, as his wife wrote, "the bent of his mind went the other way"—which way may be seen in his Prometheus Unbound (1820), in which Zeus is overthrown and a golden age, ruled by the power of love, is born.
The harmony of the whole is still supported, and the natural bent of the mind being more complied with, individuals as well as the public find their account in the observance of those maxims.
After this Darius resolved to prove the Greeks, and try the bent of their minds, whether they were inclined to resist him in arms or prepared to make their submission.
