self-willed
Example Sentences
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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
Only Monte, a self-willed celibate, initially thwarts her plans.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019
A subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman, Murakami is a master of both suspense and sociology, his language a deceptively simple screen with a mystery hidden behind it.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 10, 2019
They all seemed to be engaging in a self-willed amnesia about John McEnroe.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2015
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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