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But for all the barriers he’s broken and all the miles he’s logged in his career as a Navy test pilot, Maverick occupies a state of self-willed professional stasis.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022

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

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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