Bent on
Both terms in one sentence
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All of these things he could have done, but he was so bent on screwing Tony personally that he either never realized this, or more likely never cared.
Source: Film / Iron Man 2 - Athrun telling Nicol that the pilot Strike was a friend of his whom tragic circumstances forced him into reluctantly fighting, and not evil and hell bent on slaughtering them would have likely saved Nicol's life later on.
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It's much easier to demonize an evil outsider inexplicably hell-bent on getting Little Johnny hooked to drugs than to talk about the fact that the people who are actually likely to be encouraging him to try will be his friends and peers.
Source: The Aggressive Drug Dealer
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