Hell Bent

And hovering over the decadence is a hell-bent obsession with money at any cost and fame at any price. ❋ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (2011)

Our country is drowning in a sea of lost confidence in our public officials who seem hell-bent on bankrupting our entire system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Dulles returned, he and Hoover met with a president hell-bent on turning the Middle East crisis into something constructive and permanent.30 Ike had long viewed the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors as the linchpin of any plan for a general reduction of Western-Arab tensions. ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

I find it incredibly ironic – and very, very sad – that a black man would be so hell-bent on taking civil rights away from other people … ❋ Unknown (2010)

“It might not be Cooper,” I insisted again, getting annoyed that Eli seemed hell-bent on the worst-case scenario. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

Did they really intend for these rights to be extended to a bunch of uncivilized, weapon-toting, cave-dwelling, barbaric religious fanatics on the other side of the globe who were hell-bent on destroying the very things the constitution was written to protect? ❋ Unknown (2009)

When his teammates followed suit, it played into another Piston mental trap: In getting the Chicago Bulls hell-bent on standing up to them physically, their basketball execution went right out the window. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

Francis Russell, special assistant to the secretary, met in advance with Ambassador Hussein and confirmed to the secretary that Nasser was “hell-bent” to go forward with the project, even though the Soviets had made no “firm offer.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

Do you think Obama is a marxist hell-bent on destroying this country? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instantly the mouse began running in counterclockwise circles as if hell-bent on winning a murine Olympics. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

I am sick and tired of people who claim to be patriotic being such fearful sissies, hell-bent on throwing away our freedom for a little false sense of security. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are hell-bent on seizing and holding power at all costs, to make themselves richer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why are you so hell-bent on spending time around me? ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

An opposition party hell-bent on scuttling his every efforts regardless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They are hell-bent and determined to pass anything regardless if it costs a trillion dollars and regardless if it will work or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No wonder she made such an excellent nurse—she was hell-bent on making life antiseptic. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

"I'm hell-bent on making a yoga studio a success in the hood. Maybe [gang banger] Wednesday will be [a draw] - 'I know you're down with your dawgs, but are you down with [downward dog]?'" ❋ Toridragon (2006)

[She is] hell-bent on [finding] him and seducing him. ❋ The Return Of Light Joker (2007)

[Al-Qaeda] was hell bent on crashing those planes into [the World Trade Center] and [Pentagon]. ❋ Fizzle (2004)

[Carson] is very [hell-bent] to [live at] the lodges at west edge. ❋ Mattmorrison7 (2019)

The [Tory's] were all [hell bent for leather] about passing [the bill]. ❋ J Stairwell (2010)

[That dude] [looked] like he was hell bent for leather. ❋ Ross Koby (2008)

[The Karen] walked up to the car and started [spewing] [all sorts of] hell bent bullshit. ❋ Dreudian (2023)