Sentence examples for modern bent from inspiring English sources

One work re-interpreted the eight auspicious Buddhist symbols with a modern bent.

He learned the cheffing ropes under such grandees as Marco Pierre White at the Oak Room and Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir Aux Quat'Saisons; chuck in later stints at the likes of Restaurant Frantzen in Stockholm and Noma in Copenhagen, and you're talking a cook with impeccable classical training and a distinctly modern bent.

An elegant blend of art deco touches mixed in with Edwardian and French influences which means that, architecturally speaking, the hotel will please both traditionalists and those with a modern bent.

Mira had to slip away to the group's twice-weekly meetings because her father did not approve of its modern, secular bent.

But even with its historical bent, Modern Streets is a thoroughly modern production it was made entirely with iPad and iPhone apps.

Our bent in modern times seems to be to endow our outsize human powers with the inexorability of natural forces.

But he claimed to be the first modern designer to use bent wood, and his chairs may cause some reconfiguring of the origins of modernist design.

Still, in Turkey, traditional rules are often bent to accommodate modern life.

Mr. Chelsom's bent for floating modern mysticism, which surfaced in "Hear My Song," doesn't quite jell here.

It's not surprising that some still clutch to hollow earth theory because, for many, the modern theories have a religious bent to them.

When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in 2002, it became the first party with a religious bent to take the helm in modern Turkey.