1.   Dyer and Bargen spread word of their project mainly to friends with a literary bent and people in academia.

2.   Gaines tried to give the magazine a literary bent, Lapham said, assigning work to writers like George Plimpton, John Updike and Chip McGrath.

3.   He had a literary bent and an infallible faith in the human imagination, which was one of his great subjects.

4.   He encounters other lonely sailors, including some with a striking literary bent.

5.   His father, a doctor, had a literary bent.