willed

Even down to the last show, he willed himself, like, “I’m going to do this show.”

It marked a first ever try for Brazil in their debut Women's Rugby World Cup, with Silva willed on by a loud Sandy Park before being mobbed by her team-mates.

Cultural stagnation is a form of willed self-destruction at the popular level.

And it seems the only lesson we’ve learned is that the government’s handling of our next preventable tragedy is likely to be a lot worse because our callous partisanship willed it to be so.

In the space of a year, PSG have become a team many neutrals actively willed to lose in the Champions League - to the best team in the world to watch.