Sentence examples for with a bent for from inspiring English sources

With a bent for natural philosophy, a minor evolutionist.

Another, the class poet with a bent for spiritual things, had legally changed her first name.

It may even choose someone with some vim and vigour, with a bent for reform.

Nicolas Leblanc, a surgeon with a bent for practical chemistry, invented such a process.

Ken MacLeod is another British novelist with a bent for political science fiction.

John Keats, an author and biographer with a bent for social commentary, died on Nov. 3 in Kingston, Ont.

"I could never have written so naturally about Kayankaya — a Frankfurter with Turkish parents and a bent for certain surroundings — if I hadn't been him, up to a certain point," he told Mr. Seiler.

And by fun, I mean the excruciating, character-building pain of making almost no impact on root vegetable with a bent teaspoon for eight hours at a time.

On the Areaware site, they discovered a utilitarian-looking piece by Brendan Ravenhill: a wooden handle with a bent nail for removing bottle caps and a magnet to catch them (a second magnet allows the piece to be stored on a refrigerator when not in use).

He also found time to be a distinguished private lawyer -- with a particular bent for public issue litigation, a lecturer, an educator, and even a scholar.

Mao was a romantic revolutionary with an unquestionable bent for cruel or irrational theatrics on a gigantic scale.