Sentence examples for criminal bent from inspiring English sources

The Restivo family background was hardly of a criminal bent.

In the original version he plays an upright lawyer whose family is threatened by a sadistic criminal bent on revenge.

This jail once housed soldiers of a criminal bent, not political dissidents, and torture was psychological, not physical.

But to call me pro-criminal and with a criminal bent -- and if you look at the record, the records don't support those views.

The theory goes that those who don't bother to insure their car or van are often of a criminal bent, and hence clamping down on their misdemeanors increases the pressure on said criminal.

Seen as bohemian, the Muscle Beach crowd included too much of a criminal bent, the conservative city fathers insisted, and could be a bad influence on the neighborhood.

He told the Senate that you are pro-criminal with a tremendous bent toward criminal activity, anti-death penalty, and against prosecutors and the culture in terms of maintaining order.

I was very surprised to hear that he had gone to the Senate floor and called me "pro-criminal, with a tremendous bent toward criminal activity," that he told his colleagues that I was against prosecutors and the culture in terms of maintaining order.

But on the floor of the Senate, Mr. Ashcroft advanced the fabricated charge that Judge White was "pro-criminal" and had "a tremendous bent toward criminal activity".

But it goes on to observe that in blocking the nomination of Judge Ronnie White to the federal bench, Mr. Ashcroft "advanced the fabricated charge that Judge White was 'pro-criminal' and had 'a tremendous bent toward criminal activity.' " It is difficult to understand how one can reconcile the advancement of fabricated charges for political gain with personal rectitude.

In his highly appreciative review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said that the story of a marshal who eschews retirement in order to protect a cowardly, ungrateful constituency from a vengeance-bent criminal "has a stunning comprehension of that thing we call courage in a man and the thorniness of being courageous in a world of bullies and poltroons".