Bent recovered from injury in time but was ultimately left out of the final 23-man squad for Euro 2012 as Hodgson felt Bent would not be fit enough to appear at the tournament.
Suppose that one sees a stick immersed in water as being bent but feels it to be straight or knows that this is an illusion.
And the songs, despite a quasi-mystical bent, feel reassuringly like songs.
Many young progressive women the same narcissistic college girls that Crispin frequently decries in her book could not stomach Hillary Clinton because her election campaign, with its cringe-worthily insincere pro-woman bent, felt like marketing.
Mabou Mines is heralded for its experimental bent, but "Song" feels like sentimental community art gone hopelessly astray.
In it, a detainee is bent backwards until he feels his spine will snap.
Even amid the recent surge in artwork with a sex-positive and feminist bent, Tomanova's work feels especially raw, strange and transgressive.
In short: it feels like someone is actually hell-bent on speaking to you for once.
But the bent of its filing docs feels more like a company heading toward an offering and not the numbers of a firm ready to enact one.
His latest movie, Aloha, is so hell-bent on self-consolation it feels like whistling in the dark.
