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

“To date,” Morrell told the council Thursday, “whether by inactivity or willfulness, the mayor has refused to comply with the law.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

The separate charge of conspiracy to obstruct the grand jury's investigation also bears on "willfulness."

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2023

It’s a hard and perilous excursion, one made increasingly more difficult by Lucas, whose self-confidence — inborn or instilled — rapidly hardens into dangerous willfulness.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

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