Sentence examples for practical bent from inspiring English sources
Other female looters were of a more practical bent.
But he saw their practical bent as a reason for optimism.
This practical bent plays well with the severe charms of the 16th century.
Raised on New York's Upper West Side, the son of a stockbroker, Joe was a kid with a practical bent.
For natural sciences, the interview has a practical bent, with candidates tackling problems under the gaze of the tutor.
He stepped out of the seminary and faced Kierkegaard's abyss with a practical bent: "The first part of this plan was me getting a job.
Because he was a moralist rather than a philosopher by temperament which probably precipitated his famous question, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?"—Tertullian's practical and legal bent of mind expressed what would later be taken as the unique genius of Latin Christianity.
The finished green is virtually maintenance free, and is "a realistic and practical alternative to a bent-grass green that offers the speed, ball-holding ability, contour and true roll of a natural green," Mr. Lehrer said.
He came off a practical man whose libertarian bent is almost entirely incidental.
Nicolas Leblanc, a surgeon with a bent for practical chemistry, invented such a process.
Discover occupies a niche somewhere between slick Omni, which has a futuristic bent, and practical Popular Science, which appeals to do-it-yourselfers.
