Word: bents
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...they sounded any more bummed, they’d only be good for salving broken hearts. Mojave 3 sound like Elliott Smith might if he had been dumped by his girlfriend somewhere below the Bible belt—swoony folk with a country bent. Yet despite the relentless heartache of their lyrics, Spoon and Rafter is an undercover upbeat album, suffused with an insistent gleam of sunshine...
...returned, being gone is starting to haunt me. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers purports to be a great supporter of refining the study abroad program to make it more viable for students, perhaps he needs to inform the rest of his staff. Because everyone here seems to be bent on punishing me for leaving for a semester! Petitioning to leave was quite a hassle, but returning has proved even more difficult
Fowler-Finn, known for his tough demeanor and a bent for statistical accountability, has had proven experience in closing gaps in performance as a school superintendent in Fort Wayne...
...floated above China every 12 years. Today's focus is on the science of UFOs-something tolerable to a Chinese Communist Party that advocates "scientific socialism." It helps that heavy hitters such as the former president of Beijing Aerospace University have long advised UFO-research organizations. The hard-science bent means it's acceptable to publish research on close-encounter stories. It's not O.K., however, to wonder if such stories result from people searching for higher meaning in the hurly-burly of a changing China by turning to God, Buddha or even E.T. "Chinese may feel a spiritual impulse...
Marglin’s liberal bent did not seem to put off many of the students who turned out for his class yesterday...