Sentence The phrase "historical bent" is an acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It refers to a person's interest in, and knowledge of, the history of a certain topic or culture. For example, "My uncle has a strong historical bent and is always giving us lectures on ancient Roman history."
Despite the evening's historical bent, the boisterous crowd skewed young.
She said she has already spurned offers that would have tempted those without a historical bent.
Mr. Stevens is Mr. Idol's more cerebral half, a heavy-metal virtuoso with a historical bent.
THOMAS MALLON is a historical novelist -- or, if that sounds a touch too middlebrow, a literary novelist of historical bent.
Jurors with a historical bent fought with those more concerned with the memorial's emotional and tactile impact.
Her husband, Nachman Elbaum, is a travel agent who leads group tours with a historical bent; that week he was in Poland.
Add to that the fact that 30 Park Place's most obvious architectural inspiration — 1 Wall Street, the stately Art Deco pile of 1931 just around the corner — is in fact an office tower, not a residential one, and you have a notionally historical building with a peculiarly anti-historical bent.
Megan Kelso is best known for elegant, small-scale comics (like "Watergate Sue," serialized in The New York Times Magazine) with a historical or memoiristic bent.
In his New York debut, the Berlin artist Thomas Zipp succeeds where many don't, as a didactic painter who mixes a strong Conceptual bent, historical consciousness and an assured but restrained affection for his medium and its materials.
But 20 years ago, a historian at Old Sturbridge Village, a recreated 19th-century town in central Massachusetts, told him of Bent's historical role.
For those whose historical curiosity -- or conspiratorial bent -- brings them to the capital of Belarus, the landmarks of Oswald's strange life here from January 1960 to May 1962 remain in some ways remarkably unchanged four decades later.
