willfulness

Example Sentences

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There’s a willfulness to the story that isn’t always easy to overlook, though the fluid staging gives the events a natural flow.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

A lot, but two important differences are in willfulness and obstruction.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2023

Petrenko, small and smiling, his gestures precise, is the antithesis of willfulness.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022

She is as much of a royal as she is a would-be general, skilled at riding her dragons and standing up to her dangerous uncle Daemon, who appreciates her willfulness.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2022

My grandfather, whom everyone called a saint, pampered her in everything and tolerated her willfulness, so that the saying among the family was that Papito was so good, "he pees holy water."

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez