When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.
But were he a Democrat of the liberal bent I would not support him.
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Some of the most intelligent and accomplished people I know get bent-out-of-shape by the notion that they do not have near-universal appreciation.
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While I wasn't especially bent on winning for my own sake, I was keenly aware that my family, school, hometown and the local sponsoring newspaper had invested an awful lot of time, cash and care into my trip to Washington, and I did not want to fail them.
Given my analytic bent, I was intrigued that one of the strongest factors in the statistical model between peer social support and mortality was the perception of control.
Feeling faintly sick, I joined in as we stretched, bent, lunged and jogged on the spot, wondering why it was that I seemed to be the only one worn out by the warmup alone.
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But I also believe human nature is bent, and good intentions often succumb to repeated temptation.
Neither the environmentalist, nor the anti-nuke understands this and as far as I can tell, they are both bent on destroying my life in a misguided effort to save the planet for its own sake and to perhaps save me from myself.
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As I lit the small propane camp stove and set about my preparations, I warily eyed a small skunk that seemed bent on keeping me company.
One of the things as an MP you do is go round old people's homes and you see these women, bent double, shuffling about, and I look at that as a tragedy.
When I got up and went back to the machine, the woman bent her body over the larva, almost concealing it under a black curtain of hair.
Hot, exhausted, sore, bent a little to the right, and walking a lot, I finally trotted across that finish line in Honolulu.
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Scanning readers' comments left on the article, I see I am taxed with being an English nationalist and deep-dyed Eurosceptic, bent on wrecking the EU. This puzzles me, sincerely.
The thing I like about our team the past couple of games is that we certainly have bent at times but didn't break.
One morning, I shuffled downstairs and was startled to see a snowplow clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman shoveling my walk.
But I think Michael's got to do a bit more to convince Capello than Darren Bent has.
And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice.
Looking into one of these windows, I could imagine how the town must have been, street after sunlit street, with lone craftsmen bent over their workbenches, each making a tiny part that would contribute to the thousands of watches being made.
Black Cats manager Steve Bruce may have been surprised by the impact Bent has made at the Stadium of Light, admitting "he's probably a better footballer than I thought he was".
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