How To Use Bent on In A Sentence

If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
He's bent on suicide.
This so-called "truncation" of the collection process calls for a redefinition of the duties incumbent on the holder and collecting and drawee banks and have been specifically addressed in the proposed legislation. ANC Daily News Briefing
He becomes less a magician and more and more not only an illusionist of increasing power, but one bent on tormenting his audience rather than entertaining them.
His evil spirit is awa i 'puir' Brownie's 'body, bent on Border Ghost Stories

Earth is such a beautiful, unique, unbelievably complex planet and yet humans are simply hellbent on destroying it and everything on it. Death by Plastic
I would suggest that if they are bent on breaking Bengal they may opt for joining Sikkim which is a state comprising of Nepalese, Gorkhas, Bhutias, Lepchas and some other mongoloid ethnic groups. Is Gorkhaland Movement Entering a Phase of Violence?
Obviously, being one of the most famous Indians in the world didn't help Naipaul curry favour with Indian babudom bent on mindless application of rules. The Times of India
I think if we are going to have these high alerts in the future, I think it is incumbent on the attorney general to give us more information.
Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
Joe Trippi is right, the Republicans are hell bent on destroying the presidency, not in cooperating to move the country forward. Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter
He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
What's in the water that makes Bay Area foodies hell-bent on feeding the world safe & healthy food (carried in non-plastic bags handstitched by non-corporations)? Annie Spiegelman: Eating Green: An Interview with Helge Hellberg About the Rising Food Movement
Some people seem hell-bent on misinterpreting you, even people you thought weren't inclined to having jerky knees.
Such institutions were thinly disguised agents of a superstate bent on subverting or displacing private enterprise, particularly in the generation of hydroelectric power.
It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense - unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rather than playing a hero on his way up, Chow casts himself as a no-good beggar bent on joining a Shanghai gang.
It's incumbent on you to advise your son before he leaves home.
The worker is fully bent on the project.
Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war.
But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed.
Based on Lawrence Thornton's novel, Hampton strives for a part human, part mystical response to a brutal regime, bent on repression.
He seems incapable of checking his rage and increasingly bent on causing real harm to others.
The film is academic and probing about its subject rather than bent on eye-popping thrills that the general audience has been conditioned to expect come showtime.
Marshal found that a tough resistance awaited him, although the allied commander-in-chief, Bernadotte, moved with the utmost caution, as if he were bent on justifying Napoleon's recent sneer that he would "only make a show" (_piaffer_). The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
They seem hell bent on continuing to police the world, to beat everyone into shape and to ‘get rid of the low-down dirty dogs’.
After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus. December 2002
But a vote for him will aid and abet a Democratic leadership that's hell bent on an expansion of government that's a radical departure from the nation's bedrock principles and ruinous in its economic implications. Daily Press: A Vote for Rigell is a Vote for Bush!
Thus, it is incumbent on the government to support and develop the cooperation agencies.
Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
All said and done, the police authorities seem to be bent on going ahead with their welcome experiment.
A further example of this difficulty concerns the special responsibility incumbent on firms in a dominant position.
Going on about Polish parties that think poovery is wrong (how dare they) or some Czech bloke who thinks global warming is a load of bollocks (sounds a sensible person to me) and some Danish MEP who thinks Islam is bent on World Domination. LABOUR MELTDOWN SPECIAL
And then, somehow, I ended up recumbent on the bed with Rafe on top of me, my arms around his neck.
Police countercharged, arresting some of what they described as a hard core of 500 bent on confrontation. CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007
The ANC is hell-bent on the name Gauteng, finish and klaar," Jan ANC Daily News Briefing
You knew that this was going to be a movie about a man who was bent on controlling his message.
He said the party members should forget about the other faction because it was bent on disorganising the party.
Or have deranged boosters and desperate civic organizations hellbent on reviving the local economy threatened to break journalists' legs if they leave some jerkwater dump off the list of the 10 Best Places to Spend Your Golden Years? Ten Best Places to Read About Silly Lists
Just as importantly, these two major powers appear to be hell-bent on usurping an authority which has stood us in good stead for more than half a century.
Yet the presidency and the legislature appear bent on dealing with each other.
Since our island is in the Auckland City area we get to choose the mayor from among an assortment of National Party have-beens - a liberal one and an illiberal one - and an entrepreneur bent on not upsetting the chicken coop.
Another word in Professor Daly's lexicon is "foreground," which she defines as the illusory reality established over the centuries within a male-dominated, hierarchical culture bent on destroying women, animals and the earth. BlogHer
He attributed this move to individuals in society who are bent on seeing the demise of the party.
Having failed to defeat McCreevy at home, it seems De Rossa is bent on an act of national sabotage by wrecking his chances of securing an influential post on the Commission.
In this scene, Edgardo and Enrico, both hell-bent on revenge, breathe fire at each other, and Donizetti responds with an appropriately militant duet for tenor and baritone.
Pip is bent on becoming a gentleman and winning Estella's love.
First surprise - she curled her fingers around the strings and began to fingerpick, thumb bent backwards and fingers double-jointedly bent on the fret board in the style of the self-taught.
Its central figure is a charismatic, obsessive megalomaniac bent on avenging himself on the civilized world.
it is incumbent on me to attend
Their great place of congregating is still some country smiddy, which is also their frequent meeting-place when bent on black-fishing. Auld Licht Idylls
Why, the defamation of our good names paints us as remorseless ghouls bent on world domination!
Truly ugly, invective is directed at Obama too, but as the winner it is incumbent on him to reach out to Clinton supporters. Angry Clinton supporters tell party leaders: 'Let's go McCain!'
It's pretty much a building site at the moment, but the country is hell-bent on bringing the very best companies out here to make it their Asian base.
Within 30 years the U.N. had grown an automatic majority bent on castigating the West and Israel. The Roots of Europe's Cultural Masochism
The academy is reinventing the practice of liberal education - but seems bent on ensuring that no one knows.
In other words, if a straight section of pipe has been plastically bent one has to overstress the pipe in the opposite direction in order to straighten it.
Democracy will make it's last fall into the oblivion of an Imperial corporate state bent on world destruction.
The peculiar melody and profuse imagination which the pastoral disclosed at once placed its author in the forefront of living poets, but a far greater work was already in hand; and from some words of Gabriel Harvey's we see Spenser bent on rivalling Ariosto, and even hoping "to overgo" the "Orlando Furioso" in his "Elvish Queen. History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
The rest of the dinner, I was hell-bent on getting him to eat French fries, drink wine, have dessert and say bad words, things he never seemed to allow himself to do.
A group of angry young men and women bent on violence has disrupted a meeting of elected politicians.
One thing that fascinated me on hearing that the Russians were bent on raising the crippled sub was exactly how one goes about lifting it, with live torpedoes still aboard?
The other ace in Dassin's deck is Cronyn, playing a corrupt, savage prison guard bent on bringing "discipline" to his inmates, while nursing a megalomaniacal ambition to replace the wimpy Warden. John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life
At the upper part of the fossa is a transverse depression, where the bone appears to be bent on itself along a line at right angles to and passing through the center of the glenoid cavity, forming a considerable angle, called the subscapular angle; this gives greater strength to the body of the bone by its arched form, while the summit of the arch serves to support the spine and acromion. II. Osteology. 6a. 2. The Scapula (Shoulder Blade)
Eventually I bent one of the pins in the keyboard plug and it had to go.
In many contexts—including a 1990s stint with pianist Chick Corea's Origin band and, especially, alongside Mr. Street for the past decade in the trio led by pianist Danilo Pérez—Mr. Cruz has helped establish the pulse of a generation bent on genre-busting jazz. Unlocking the Keys to the Kit
Critics of the group say it is bent on increasing state control over business, politics and society.
I'm also hellbent on total domination of all life forms in the service of evil. Times, Sunday Times
They seem hellbent on bringing the company to its knees. The Sun
In April 1701 an Austrian Habsburg army invaded Lombardy, bent on conquering Milan for the archduke Charles, Leopold's second son.
They seem hell bent on continuing to police the world, to beat everyone into shape and to ‘get rid of the low-down dirty dogs’.
Giuliani was the vanguard of the number-crunching, fine-print scanning evil wonks bent on scorched-earthing all that was, and his enforcers on this were the likely suspects — his police commissioners, Howie Safir and Berniie Kerik — respectability-aspiring, blue-collar hammers for “the man”. Archive 2008-01-01
Round two long tables were gathered two serried crowds of human beings, all save one having their faces and attention bent on the tables.
Moreover, he says, it looks as if African nationalism is bent on the same self-destructive trajectory as its predecessor.
Yesterday, indeed, they promised me to do it, and actually went away as if bent on such a design; but Baneelon, instead of directing his steps to Botany Bay, crossed the harbour in his canoe, in order to draw the foreteeth of some of the young men; and Colbee, in the room of fulfilling his engagement, is loitering about the lookout house. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
If I were minded to be a Islamic fundamentalist bent on fighting the satanic forces of McDonalds and Coca Cola I would draw considerable comfort from all this talk of negotiating with a bunch of cooky beardos in Quetta. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Here, she plays an extreme introvert who's hell-bent on revenge.
Yes my friends, Plaid is outwardly a mainstream political party, but behind the smokescreen of respectability we are a fascist organization bent on conquering England (and indeed Europe; not sure about Essex though) with the goal of ridding the earth of Jews and Slavs in order to make room for the glorious master race: the dreaded crachach (Don Touhig was right). Archive 2009-09-01
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It's incumbent on you to advise your son before he leaves home.
Catering to such people might even be considered an abdication of responsibility for a program director bent on public service.
If people have adjusted to a society that seems hellbent on destroying itself in the next couple of decades, just what does that prove about the people? Times, Sunday Times
It was incumbent on them to attend.
As soon as each sail was hauled up and the bunt made, the jigger was bent on to the slack of the buntlines, and the bunt triced up, on deck.
They made use of it, to instil into the small portion of the people under their direction, that it was incumbent on them to serve no other master than him who was the vicegerent of God on earth, and who dwelt in Italy on the banks of a small river called the Tiber; that every other religious opinion, every other worship, was an abomination in the sight of A Philosophical Dictionary
Thousands flocked to the resort bent on experiencing the barrack-room accommodation, the ‘wakey-wakey’ calls barked out across the resort's Tannoys and the comfort of a place where once you were in, everything was already paid for.
The move heightened fears the pariah regime is hellbent on building up a doomsday armoury. The Sun
Now it seems the Americans - perhaps with Britain in tow - seem hell-bent on taking care of unfinished business.
Beyond my personal disgust, the danger of their martyrization lies in the support it offers to the belief held by many Jews of a certain persuasion that Islamist terrorism is a consequence of the essential bloodthirstiness of all Islam which is bent on destroying Israel and the Jews. Don't Die For Me
In the gay season of 1866, Hardin, still bent on the golden quest in the hills, reads with some astonishment, the careful "precis" of his social spy. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance
Opposing him was Ahriman, a powerful spirit bent on evil and leading humans astray. Alexander the Great
They seem bent on taking the world back to an even more remote past, to when chaos lay on the face of the Earth; a time recorded in the Book of Genesis.
In March, that brief summary of a bear, the raccoon, comes out of his den in the ledges, and leaves his sharp digitigrade track upon the snow, -- travelling not unfrequently in pairs, -- a lean, hungry couple, bent on pillage and plunder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
Rather, I've come to the diplomatic conclusion that intentionally beat-up production simply complements bands who are bent on re-examining time-worn musical ideas.
While these men were not social revolutionaries bent on overturning the slave system in one bold stroke, nor were they solely foot draggers content to slow production.
Bent on defeating Nazi Germany, Wigner worked on plutonium production and made superb engineering designs for the air-cooled atomic pile built by the DuPont Corporation.
Her fate and sad history have made a woman of her, and now she is bent on repairing the ravages of time.
Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don't care.
He also had the skill to make almost any interview work, even when the person in the guest chair was tongue-tied or full of themselves and hell-bent on plugging some current endeavor.
it is incumbent on them to pay their own debts
At the time, project planners were hell-bent on sticking a shopping center underneath the school, and they carved away much of the natural topography in the process.
Rather, I've come to the diplomatic conclusion that intentionally beat-up production simply complements bands who are bent on re-examining time-worn musical ideas.
The intruders were hell-bent on taking that which never belonged to them.
Simon's shop and a chippy nearby have been targeted for months by a hard-core of about a dozen teenagers bent on making people's lives a misery.
This proceeding was incumbent on all guests - high and low alike - and was intended to inculcate humility.
And she is still fighting the same ‘renegade’ IRS agent, who, she says, seems hell-bent on liquidating the business.
This game of killings or bombings is for these blood thirsty animals who are bent on destroying every civilized element inside Pakistan. Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Mayhem in Peshawar
Bent on inspiring him with enthusiasm equal to her own, she declined to dampen what sparks he had caught by anything so uncheerful as a cold meal. CHAPTER I
Yet they seem to have gone on a solo run, bent on forcing change without recognising their own vulnerability.
This is really jsut a manefistation of a corrupt Godless nation that seems to be hell bent on allowing this made for TV insanity to paly out everyday. Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment
Then he finds his wife and gets ready to merk Castle who turns out to be a megalomaniac bent on controlling the masses. Dart Adams presents The Dartflix Film Review: Gamer
We are not all rampaging capitalists bent on the destruction of the working class.
They were bent on an early start the next day.
The adults are bent on creating hell on earth.
The acquisition of knowledge is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male and female.
Bent on making it a grand event, outshining such contests held in the previous years in the city, the event is expected to take off in a big way.
Marcus' younger brother Barnaby was a bachelor hell bent on a lifetime of booze, gambling, and womanizing.
That brutishly bloody bloke is hell bent on just bashin 'up BHO rather than offerin' an alternative. Obama criticizes political motives of health care reform opponents
If we were bent on fighting on interior lines for the sake of convenience, we would fall into the enemy's deadly trap.
However, every pair of pedals except his bent ones felt weird to him!
They find that shelter in a mall, but the mall comes with a group of security guards who are bent on keeping strict order in the most militaristic manner possible.
He denounced him as a counter-revolutionary bent on overthrowing the government.
He felt as if all the years of hard work in London had come to nought, angry that I had somehow misrepresented my financial position and that I seemed bent on continuing to write even though it meant impecuniousness for us as a family. A better woman
Caleb augured the worst, turned a deaf ear to the trio aforesaid, and was moving doggedly on, his ancient castor pulled over his brows, and his eyes bent on the ground, as if to count the flinty pebbles with which the rude pathway was causewayed. The Bride of Lammermoor
Yesterday, indeed, they promised me to do it, and actually went away as if bent on such a design; but Baneelon, instead of directing his steps to Botany Bay, crossed the harbour in his canoe, in order to draw the foreteeth of some of the young men; and The Settlement at Port Jackson
Witness the pathos of the nation's first temple in its largest metropolis: a president, unencumbered by elections, wedded to perennial power locked in legal combat with a shadow board of trustees bent on her ouster.
In the long run, we pay an even heavier price by galvanizing opponents bent on freeing themselves from what they perceive as elitist disrespect for democratic governance.
But Chavez and Obama have certain irreconcilable differences: Chavez is bent on turning Venezuela into a socialist state. Global Voices in English » Americas: 5th Summit Reactions
If you are unconvinced and not familiar with climate science, take a moment to look up where the phrases “divergence problem” and “teleconnection” came from, and then tell me that this is a serious science not hell-bent on showing warming no matter what. Open Climate Science or Denial of Service attacks? | Serendipity
He expects a busy afternoon against a team hell-bent on making amends for last year's blip in an otherwise tremendous season.
the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
But it's the big one that Khan is hell bent on winning now - and who'd back against him?
It is incumbent on us to check our fact before make an accusation.
He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation.
The book is a wild sci-fi ride: human clones, recorded human memories, a villain bent on global chaos, lots automatic gunfire, presidential assassinations ... it's an action-packed hoot. An Interview with Innovative Author J.C. Hutchins
If bent on wilful aims and lewd I fain forswear thee, ah! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The council seems to be hell-bent on penalising the citizens of York, who are most affected by the scandalous parking charges imposed in the evening.
Britain's sprint cyclist is having dark thoughts about the 2012 Olympics but is hell bent on triple gold in London Victoria Pendleton: 'Dreaming of being chased by a killer is normal'
Cringing, cowling, hiding, and overtly voicing fear for all to hear, is an integrated tool used at times savagely as part of the sensationalist news and of terroristic gore, which grabs one by the collar and literally shakes you senseless into believing whatever they are bent on making you believe. Safety in Michoacan
The only menace around here is a government that is hell bent on enforcing its totalitarian controls on everything we do.
A recent series of articles and short video documentaries [complete list here] at the website Talk To Action, which analyzes the intersection of religion and politics, has focused on connections of Palin's churches to that movement and begun to map out the barely-noticed yet rapidly growing, international move among fundamentalist Christianity, away from Christian denominationalism and towards a type of hyper-fundamentalism bent on achieving worldly power. more on Third Wave/New Apostolic Reformation Bruce Wilson: In '05 Video, Pastor Anoints Palin, Says Christians Should "Infiltrate" Government, Schools, Business
The worker is fully bent on the project.
He spent much of 1999 explaining how Clinton's Kosovo policy would lead to a disastrous regional war along with an "irredentist" Kosovo bent on territorial conquest. Barrett Brown: Krauthammer Makes New Prediction Regarding Failed Old Prediction
But his insulting treatment of a key ally shows him to be irresponsible, graceless and obsessively bent on winning office at all costs.
They blamed extremists bent on damaging democracy and western civilisation.
Takashi Murakami is not just bent on the pursuit of commercial artist, he just does not exclude the market.
It is hard to believe that a theologian so bent on providing justification for preemptive armed conflict would find a theological account of violence tangential to the question of war.
In a culture bent on out-shouting a God who chooses silence, we need to make room in our communities for entering into that silence with God, so that the unsayable truth can be heard.
But people involved are undeterred and bent on taking it forward.
The undergraduate teaching is an important function of the research-oriented university. The library as a document center should be incumbent on supporting this work.
It is thought of as a requirement incumbent on citizens in virtue of the independently established authority of the state.
But the show tapped into a potent collective fear that we could be undone by an enemy bent on ecoterrorism. Lynn Parramore: Superfreaky: The Wild World of Geoengineering
Mkapa blamed the media for what he described as distortion of facts, saying: "It is discouraging to see that the media and the international community are bent on distorting the whole issue. ANC Daily News Briefing
Indeed, the prayer is a duty incumbent on the faithful to be discharged at appointed hours.
Paul Schrader has made a career out of exploring the darker side of the human psyche, of exposing obsessive characters who seem hell-bent on self-destruction.
The threats included external forces — Muslims, heretics, pirates, and southern merchants — which exteriorized blame for the failure and placed it onto distant figures who were bent on destroying or distorting the expedition. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
But in the army, where next week you may find yourself in a vicious firefight with a load of Taleban wackos bent on both martyrdom and the tender attentions of the usual 72 virgins (or is it 73 this week?), curtailing training by a week may mean that something which might save the life of a young Private soldier in the field goes untaught. A Shilling for Des's Meter?
Almost from the moment of his birth in 1694, Voltaire was bent on reinventing himself.
He had a necessity incumbent on him of declaring the great labour he had undergone, and the pains he had taken in "preaching of the gospel;" but yet immediately, lest anyone should apprehend that he ascribed any thing to himself, any gracious, holy actings in those labours, he adds his usual epanorthosis, "Not I;" -- "Let me not be mistaken; it was not I, by any power of mine, by any thing in me, but it was all wrought in me by the free grace of the Spirit of God. Pneumatologia
I have always been hell-bent on being a lady and I have always demanded respect.
From my personal perspective, I'm not really seeing a huge shift in the way we organize our economies or our societies for sustainability, so my suspicion is that while we aren't doomed yet, we are apparently bent on dooming ourselves. Archive 2010-02-01
Diane and Paul Brown are hell-bent on creating a cosy environment in this smart split-level restaurant just off the High Street in Dunfermline.
With a decent pair of waders costing $100 to $300, it's incumbent on most of us working-stiff waterfowlers to make our waders last at least a few seasons before they fall prey to the inevitable.
The parallel is now plain to the reader: the corpuscle is the Yogi, bent on liberation: the heat which warms him is the Divine Love, centered in his heart, his initiations are the successive emancipations into higher and higher spaces, till he attains Four-Dimensional Vistas
Week after week we see gangs of brain-dead boneheads invade this part of town hellbent on violence and fuelled by alcohol.
A player who was never allowed to scale the heights in his homeland, he is now returning as a crucial component of a team hell-bent on constant improvement.
Governments cannot coexist with forces that are hell bent on their destruction.
And if they shall think as I do, that the extension of slavery endangers them more than any or all other causes, how recreant to themselves if they submit The question, and with it the fate of their country, to a mere handful of men bent only on seif-interest. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
It is incumbent on the Government to accept that responsibility and explain to the people of the region what will happen.
His portrayal of a tortured child, brutally beaten into adult villainy gives depth to what is otherwise just your average mad, evil, genius hell-bent on destroying Earth.
They've done it by casting Obama as a quasi-socialist bent on forging an overmighty government and ever - expanding state. Barack Obama's down but not out
But what I have seen are people who are hell bent on telling me that I am a gutless, useless quitter and loser.
They ‘send’ - via Mercury - those inner daemons that are bent on shaking up and shattering limiting preconceptions of who we are and what our role in life is.
Europe meets Asia and antiquity meets a young, throbbing, vibrant city as hell-bent on enjoyment and innovation as any city in the West.
But here is the place of broken ground and tangle, which calls to honourable men, not bent on sport, to be wary to guard the gunlock. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
If the actual timing of the closing was a critical term of any agreement, then it was incumbent on the Respondent to stipulate that in his offer.
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Me thinks that the pharmaceutical companies are throwing us a bone in hopes of sidetracking what the President is hellbent on accomplishing: affordable healthcare for ALL. Obama praises agreement to cut drug costs for senior citizens
Receiving an anonymous tip that her husband is fooling around with a floozy named Bridget the woman goes stomping out into the terrified city, bent on revenge.
Pipes in the middle of the day's regular revelry," ejaculated Anthony, whose way of holding the curved pipe-stem displayed a mind bent on reckless enjoyment, and said as much as a label issuing from his mouth, like a figure in a comic woodcut of the old style: -- "that's," he pursued, Rhoda Fleming — Volume 1
It is true that teenage mags can be vile little publications hellbent on creating a generation of Lolitas, dressed up in sparkly halter-neck frocks and the latest eyeshadow.
Alison usually wasn't so skittish, but people around her didn't often fall prey to killers bent on revenge.
Soon he signaled us that he was nearly out of line, and two or three minutes after, he bent on his "drogue" (a square piece of plank with a rope tail spliced into its center, and considered to hinder a whale's progress at least as much as four boats) and let go the end. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
Kramer and his allies are hell-bent on drawing an unflattering picture of the candidate and his crew.
He denounced him as a counter-revolutionary bent on overthrowing the government.
Though an ardent supporter of empire, Kipling was in many ways an untypical "sahib," an individualist bent on exploring the forbidden, seamier side of the Punjab region for his fiction. Rudyard and the Raj
Performed to a collage of composers ranging from Kurt Weill to Bela Bartok, Sorrow's Sister reveals women bent on survival, even finding a few laughs in the worst of times.
He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister…
‘I've got enough boodle to carry us a bit,’ he said, ‘but not if you're bent on painting the town.’
The cowboys, denoted by a red sash around the waist, are bent on wreaking havoc wherever they go.
He seems hell-bent on drinking himself to death.
If DC is hell-bent on not collecting this all in one volume, the event should be split into halves, with both titles interleaved through each volume to tell the story in its proper sequence. Archive 2010-01-10
The ratcatcher is grotesque, but for Claud—as for Dahl—not half as repulsive as the bureaucrats and state officials, with their joyless university intellects, who seem bent on denying ordinary people their simple pleasures. Storyteller
We will match their determination with our own; we will be as resolute as they are fanatical; as strong in defence of good as they are hell-bent on doing evil.
The times your own pieces have been blocked by the knights and bishops you seem bent on protecting, leaving me free to checkmate you, are uncountable.
As in the television reboot of "Battlestar Galactica," a limited number of monsters are bent on destroying the human race.
While auditing a class taught by Robert Lowell at Boston University, Sylvia met another poet hell-bent on suicide, Anne Sexton.
It therefore, becomes a source of deep concern when we hear that among the men of God, there are some bent on causing confusion in the nation by inciting people to involve themselves in activities inimical to the State.
Learning that they were bent on "disembodying" me, and not liking the sound of the word, I had very quietly removed myself from my regiment to the Staff. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.

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