Sentence examples for violent bent from inspiring English sources

A satirist of violent bent, whose hyperkinetic eyes were alert mostly to greed, ambition and anatomical exaggeration, Mr. Meyer had by this time reduced other social milieus to burlesque.

But poverty is not necessarily a predictor of crime, and while apartheid was horrific, other nations have suffered long histories of oppression, writes the South African criminologist Antony Altbeker, whose book "A Country at War With Itself" examines the common explanations for the nation's violent bent and finds most of them pertinent but none entirely adequate.

That something was a fierce philanthropic bent.

But do resolutions made in places far removed from violent zones deter those bent on using rape to dominate and terrorise other groups?

A Life of Fights After 54 years, Ray Hawk's face serves as a map of a life that he describes as having once been violent and bitter: a bent nose, scars around his eyes and along his forehead.

Lonne was part of the old Vesterbro – as were his friends – who all had telling names like John the Butcher, Bent Ricardo and Violent Willy.

Lonne was part of the old Vesterbro – as were his friends – who all had telling names like John the Butcher, Bent Ricardo and Violent Willy.

He drew an elaborate comic book, one that he hoped would find an audience well beyond the walls of his prison, about a violent series of racist attacks by a lone-wolf terrorist bent on overthrowing the United States government.

It seems unthinkable that even a man with a conspiratorial bent like Jimmy Lee Dykes, Ethan's kidnapper, would bear a violent impulse against the familiar small-town universe of school buses and name tags.

Homeland Security Department officials denied his assertion and said the department monitored violent extremism of every kind, without regard to its religious or political bent.

Bent cop Donna, innocent of face but handy of gun, met a violent end jumping off a multistorey car park with gangster Gary in tow, knowing that she didn't have long to live.