Sentence examples for bent perhaps from inspiring English sources

Mr. Toye was bent, perhaps, but unbowed.

Last year John McCain bent, perhaps broke, the presidential campaign-finance rules.

If the child grows up to be a wise man with a novelistic bent, perhaps.

He was initially shy, but you always felt that behind the quizzical, sly, humorous eye and manner lay a man of philosophical bent, perhaps amazed himself at what his genius had led him to achieve.

The artist's philosophical and spiritual bent — perhaps most in evident in the somber Rothko Chapel in Houston — made a deep impression on those who revered his paintings, leading the poet Stanley Kunitz to call him "the last rabbi in Western art".

Emblematic of Neubauer's international bent, perhaps, is Ellis Island.

Resilience is more about returning to the same shape after being bent, or perhaps a return to the same mindset, which is not desirable in ever-changing environments.

Alain was sitting on the floor of his studio, leaning against the wall, his head bent low: Perhaps he had dozed off?

At the end, the women collapse over their partners' bent backs, perhaps as pooped as the audience by a series of entries that should have ended earlier.

I knew the plumbers were coming and expected a mild mess: an untwisted U-bend, perhaps water dripping into a bucket.

Mr. Hendon, sponsor of a previous bill, said Mr. Obama had "made some compromises that other members of the black caucus just weren't willing to bend on" — perhaps, he said, because Senator Obama had never been abused by the police.