It's the sound of electronics being bent to the fickle whims of a human.
As Thurber enters the shank of his career, humorousness evolves from bent to stance.
Phone designers that simply bent to carriers' wills paid the price for not asserting any real control.
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This time, Mr Dobson has bent to his will, and Mr Blair has rewarded loyalty, competence and youth.
The government of Panama was sometimes obstreperous but ultimately bent to American muscle.
Leon Osman gave the home side a half-time lead only for Darren Bent to equalise straight after the restart.
In large measure the rules are merely being bent to conform with reality.
John Reith, the BBC's general manager, then bent to the microphone and announced that 5SC, the Glasgow station of the British Broadcasting Company, was calling.
In reality, the rules were bent to allow nations like Italy, Spain, Portugal, and indeed, Greece, to join with higher debt than the criteria allowed.
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At various points during the week, the statue is clad in one of hundreds of costumes that add an even more humorous bent to an already-funny statue.
At the end of the entire process, there is the static test, where the blades are bent to determine the structural capabilities to withstand once in lifetime ultimate loads.
It was too hot to put on her terry-cloth robe, so, wearing only her T-shirt and underwear, she went into the living room, where Marjorie bent to her task.
Jermaine Beckford's shot hit the bar but was ruled not to have crossed the line and Villa promptly went down the other end for Bent to make it 2-1.
Over the course of the day, the trail bent to the contours of the gorge, taking us through fragrant forests of deodar a Himalayan cedar tree and tall rai conifers, toward the snowy mountaintops that were our ultimate destination.
This was not the case, but Wadsworth indulged this indulgence of him and smiled as the boy turned cartwheels, stole up behind the cook while she bent to the bake oven, or played a guessing game with acorns hidden in his fists.
Most can be mollified before they do serious damage, but the bent to battle "unfair" liberalization of commerce doesn't bode well--not for the WTO 's Doha Round, already on life support, not for a new Pacific Rim attempt and not for bilateral trade pacts.
But we can say that Whitehall has bent itself to the chancellor's will, even if the economy has not.
When he bent over to catch his breath, he saw that his inner thighs were chafed an angry red.
Two months later he bent himself to the study of drawing and painting as others would bend to the plough.
Deep into injury time, Bent pounced to smash in from inside the six-yard area after Gael Clichy had failed to clear.
Prosecutor Matthew Ellis said that as the owner bent down to assess the damage, she drove off and knocked him off-balance.
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The items were taken from a secure brick garage, but the base of a door was bent upwards to gain access.
While her father became involved in the Zionist politics that gave birth to Israel, Mona bent her mind to her opening game.
He shook the kinks from his arms and bounced on his toes like a boxer, then bent down to pick up the frame.
Bent opted to put the ball to the left of Gomes this time, but the Brazilian leapt across goal magnificently to tip the ball away.
Lazarus knows about turning cool technology into commercial products: ACX used piezoelectric solids, which generate electricity when they are bent, to produce vibration dampers in K2 skis.
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