Sentence examples for the bent of from inspiring English sources
"The bent of undue influence is overemphasized," he said.
Shelley tried it once, in The Cenci (1819), but, as his wife wrote, "the bent of his mind went the other way"—which way may be seen in his Prometheus Unbound (1820), in which Zeus is overthrown and a golden age, ruled by the power of love, is born.
Such is the bent of the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition that they lobbied the Justice Department to deny 9/11 compensation to the domestic partners of those killed in the terrorists' attack, lest it further "the gay agenda at the expense of marriage and family".
In the midst of our lifelike life I come to this fork in your hand— stainless silver, of appreciable weight— and I fully understand its pronginess, the bent of want, an expressive head and narrow neck spreading like a delta out to three strict parallels.
Here, 1942 is a dark sulk about craving aged tequila, and Temptations semi-quotes Marvin Gaye (perhaps unwisely, given how litigious his estate is: "Sexual healing, oh what a feeling," but against a doomy, woozy, genre-perfect backdrop. The lead single, Come and See Me (feat Drake), has the production values of the latter, but the bent of the former.
But the bent of its filing docs feels more like a company heading toward an offering and not the numbers of a firm ready to enact one.
But the decision clearing the Bents of fraud accusations underscored the difficulty prosecutors and regulators have had in holding financiers accountable for precipitating the financial crisis.
Apply Strong Base Support: Apply 1 layer of tape to the bent corners of the base of the bridge.
But many other senators, including some Republicans, argued that the move would only further drive the sides apart, and worsen the ideological bent of the judiciary.
"Mandates are mandates, regardless of the philosophical bent of the person doing the mandating," you said in May 1998.
Just as the environmental movement spawned greenwashing, the altruistic bent of the under-thirty-five generation has given rise to what you might call goodwashing.
