Sentence examples for was so bent from inspiring English sources

Yahoo! was "so bent on being the future", he says, that it "missed the new".

In "Slapstick" these memories become: **{:.break one} ** She was so bent over that her face was on level with Mushari's — and Mushari was about the size of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Mr. Saleh, who now works in Yonkers installing security cameras, testified that Sergeant Hickman was so bent on revenge that he induced an attractive female acquaintance to flirt with him on May 22 , 2004

It's ironic that there is a Victorian enthusiasm for categorization here (the popular styles of the era are divided into sections on women as sirens, she-serpents, statues, and so on) when the project of the regime was so bent on modernization.

Highlighting the intense controversy over Ketek, a former F.D.A. medical officer, Dr. David Ross, took the unusual step of testifying against the drug during the public hearing portion of yesterday's advisory panel meeting in Silver Spring, Md. "Management was so bent on approval that I was pressured to soften my review," Dr. Ross told the panel.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was so bent on proving his theory of lightning warfare that he ignored the generals who said an understaffed and underarmed invasion force could rush to Baghdad, but couldn't hold the rest of the country, much less guard things like the ammunition dump.

Some pins will be so bent that they touch other pins or bent crooked so that they do not straighten up properly.

Tarantino is so bent on revenge that he imposes it retroactively, and counterfactually, on history.

In Euripides' play, Medea is so bent on wreaking vengeance on her unfaithful husband, Jason, that she murders their children.

The condition hasn't improved and his hands are so bent and gnarled that it is a miracle he can hit the ball at all.

And the honours system is so bent that it makes a game of find-the-lady in Oxford Street look like a church tombola.