Sentence examples similar to self bent from inspiring English sources

Using a device called a spatial light modulator to pre-adjust the phase of an expanded beam of laser light, the French group found that the resultant light self-bent by up to 60°, as it will report later this month in Optics Letters.

His self-reflexive bent -- "Man With a Movie Camera" is ultimately a film about its own making -- foreshadows the postmodern tendencies of what we now call meta-cinema.

By contrast, Coppola was totally and sometimes self-destructively bent on making exceptional film statements of personal vision (witness Apocalypse Now).

In A la Recherche, Proust could not envisage love as anything but such possession, an object upon which his characters are nonetheless self-defeatingly bent.

(By the same token, as others have pointed out, many popular science books have a distinctly self-help bent, explaining research that enables readers to become happier, more successful, more creative).

Show business seems to have an inherently self-reflexive bent: its history teems with movies about the movie industry, with plays and musicals about the theater.

Haneke is less bent on self-expression.

A gifted therapist helped Forrest overcome her bent for self-destruction.

Santorum got close even though he has been almost bent on self-destruction this past week.

"There's a huge opportunity here," Locke declares, "for individuals to keep their day jobs but at the same time indulge their natural human bent for self-expression".

If indeed Rocker is mentally ill -- and his behavior in uniform could lead to that conclusion -- it is in his bent for self-destruction.