Sentence examples for looks bent from inspiring English sources
Mr Romney may be cruising to the nomination, but the former speaker looks bent on revenge.
This crew of Bengals looks bent on making it an even dozen.
WITH senate elections due on November 26th, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe's opposition party, looks bent on self-destruction.
The classic example, often put as a challenge to Epicureans, was an oar that looks bent when in water but which we know to be straight (compare a straw in a drink); another was the fact that from a distance, a tower that is square looks round.
He allows that some things really do look the way they are sometimes taken to be the stick looks bent, even though it is not in fact bent.
(Put a pencil in a glass of water and the pencil looks bent because light travels more slowly through water than through air).
Though it may look bent on world domination, it often passes on ventures it thinks will not pay off, like moving into South Korea.
It had all turned extremely ugly by then, with Ruud van Nistelrooy looking bent on some sort of revenge on Efstathios Tavlaridis in the tunnel.
Cioffi's commitment, drawn from Wittgenstein, to looking at cases rather than relying on received views can be shown by his famous intervention in an Oxford discussion of how to characterise our perception of a straight stick that looked bent when half-immersed in water.
We can explain why someone is prone to judge that the stick is bent by appeal to the stick's looking bent, rather to anything's being bent, together with the ways in which exercises of judgmental acumen can respond erroneously to looks.
