This portrait of a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction is, in effect, a study of frustration and of woman's fate in a society that has no use for woman's stronger, more "masculine," talents.
Viewed historically, Obama has set out to correct past foreign policy excesses and disasters, largely the product of imperial overreach, that can be traced to several generations of American leaders bent on the exercise of unilateral power.
From what I saw later, I gathered that he was bent on squeezing a maximum of exercise of control out of his day and a half of authority.
But far from encouraging people to take exercise, airlines seem bent on keeping their passengers sitting down.
In 2005, Mr. Southerland, of Atlanta, founded Team Type 1, a cycling team of eight Type 1 diabetics who are bent on proving that people can live — and exercise — well with diabetes, no matter the type.
Such leaders eventually create pathocracies--totalitarian societies bent on power, control, and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms.
Or might they, expertly prodded along by Milosevic, continue to dismiss the entire exercise as further victimization by an international community bent on their endless vilification?
They are bent on revenge.
They appear bent on cutting costs.
Iran seems bent on slamming it shut.
