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Maybe that matters less than the fact that Ms. Fox sees her whole life as playing out under the terms of a self-willed destiny.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2019

He did not consider “Peanuts” a children’s comic; even in Snoopy, his most kid-friendly character, Schulz created a self-willed, occasionally anxious fantasist.

From The New Yorker Aug. 6, 2019

Only Monte, a self-willed celibate, initially thwarts her plans.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2019

Both homes are now sites of pilgrimage, arbiters of the still resonant mythology of the American dream of self-willed success.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2017

Behind us, a group of women was carrying on a conversation, criticizing a neighbor’s wife who, upon leaving Haiti, had turned from a sweet Haitian wife into a self-willed tyrant.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat




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