self-will
Example Sentences
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“My self-will had to be abandoned because my self-will was killing me,” Irsay said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
It also evokes the determination, the self-will, of countless immigrants who have chosen to make and call America their home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
Thus, as Cooley’s film quickens and deepens, we get a fabulous running joke about the “inner voice,” a staple of American self-will since the days of Emerson.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2019
At one point in the first novel, Outline, she remarks, “I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.”
From Slate ● May 25, 2018
That independence may easily be merged in self-will, however, he sometimes proved to demonstration, to the delight of those who were on the watch for flaws.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme
