Sentence examples for mind bent from inspiring English sources

Have his scientist's mind bent by a powerful dose of the irrational?

The pyre of bodies in Waco is not solely the product of a paranoid mind bent on self-destruction.

It was like when you dropped a piece of paper on a windy day and it grew a mind bent on eluding you.

A mentoring ghost keynotes the occasion: Forrest Bess (1911-77), Texasexas fisherman whose small, clenched, mostly abstract paintings project the mystical states of a mind bent on literal transformation.

In Book 2, Verse 4, of the Analects, he is quoted as summarizing his life in typically philosophical terms: "The Master said, 'At 15, I had my mind bent on learning.

I'd recommend this to anyone over 16 who's okay with having their mind bent a bit.

And as the militaristic tone of the Popular Front suggests, he feels he is now at war with both the liberal urban opposition and the West, which (in his conspiratorial mind) is bent on overthrowing him.

If you're able to bring that mind-set to "Bent," a screwy comedy NBC introduces on Wednesday night, you'll have a pretty good time.

It was a natural friendship, in part because Blaine has always had a scientific bent of mind, which is not unusual for a magician.

She is a realist with a speculative bent of mind, a writer of postmodern inclinations with the instincts of an old-fashioned entertainer.

Galchen characterizes Charles Babbage, the nineteenth-century inventor of a precursor to the computer, as someone with "a bent of mind so odd that he once wrote to Alfred Lord Tennyson correcting his math.