No modification of the point of view taken, no selection of other facts for study, no natural bent of mind even, can enable a man to escape the predestinate opinion.

His natural bent of mind towards poetry coupled with his singular obsession to excel in the pursuit brought him fame and fortune.

His profession was no favorite with him, and he surrendered the prospects it offered to the natural bent of his mind in following a course of general reading.

This is what keeps open a breathing-space for the spiritual and moral dimensions to the investigation of truth in a world whose natural bent is to exclude it.

Many of his natural bents and impulses have to be suppressed or blunted.

Honor and faith and a sure intent (And it wasn't the least what the lady meant@, But a fool must follow his natural bent (Even as you and I!

Enthusiasm and Self-Expression Every individual does best those things which permit him to act in accordance with his natural bents.

If such a one has a husband or wife who encourages him in the following of his natural bents during leisure hours, that marriage stands a big chance of being happy.

One senses a group of musicians who long to ease into a naturally inherited, bottom-heavy, string-rich style, an orchestra whose natural bent is unbroken phrases in large arches.

Some people are hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, when they would rather be learning to build things or fix things.