Since the 1940s, CIA had been hell-bent on perfecting mind control techniques, including the creation of a "truth drug," for use in interrogation of captured enemy operatives and to root out the enemies within.
Over a 20-year period, as he built his reputation as an artist, Mr. Talasnik was sometimes so obsessed with drawing globes that he felt like the Richard Dreyfuss character in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," bent on sculpturing the perfect mountain of mashed potatoes.
When you're bent on trying to make everything perfect, you tend to elevate the importance of unimportant things, and you become that gerbil on the treadmill.
For a skilled sniper bent on senseless slaughter, it was the perfect spot from which to track and kill innocent civilians.
Ultimate Ears are perfect for aspiring audiophiles bent on hearing every layer of a song, or just the average listener looking for peak performance, consistently.
It's all part of a major puzzle that the Directorate, and many other weapons producers, seem bent on solving: How do you engineer the perfect oxymoron?
Northrop Grumman steadily experiments in perfecting the high-tech advantage of an empire bent on endlessly dominating the world through endless war.
But it makes perfect sense to violent jihadists bent on heroic deeds.
To make the measurements easier, you should switch steps 2 & 4. That way you make the stand the right size and whatever is left gets bent on the edge of the jar, make it the perfect length!
This was because Austria-Hungary was bent on a war and Germany encouraged it because the opportunity seemed perfect.
After all, what more perfect headquarters could there be for a villain bent on world domination than a mighty, ultra-modern dome?
