He's a slender ice pick of a man, and it doesn't make sense that he's so thin, given his bent for scenery-chewing.
Gen. Cecil R. Richardson's declaration as an Assemblies of God minister that he would offer support to Wiccans as well as to members of his own denomination gives those bent on easy answers a chill.
But government intervention doesn't seem likely, given the current bent of the Federal Communications Commission.
Given the orthodox bent of the Nobel committee, Fama should have been honored decades ago.
So Ms. Townsend, given that ideological bent and her middle name, would seem to be formidably well positioned to win.
Proponents of gay equality want the Supreme Court to proclaim same-sex marriage a fundamental right of citizens, which the court, given its conservative bent, seems unlikely to do.
Given your political bent, why didn't you pursue social sciences or the law? A. I love biology, find great beauty in the way cells work.
Not evenly divided, to be sure, given the liberal bent of the legal academy, but the split is deep and troubling.
But in the months since, Mr. Schott has struggled to close the ethical gaps in a student body that, given its classical bent, he felt should have known better.
In the premiere of Mr. Jeter's "You Do What You Can...," for Edgar Anido, Mark Caserta and himself, there is spoken text from "The Boondocks," the darkly funny animated show on the Cartoon Network, but it's taken out of context and given an aspirational bent.
