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
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
He is just a little ball of willfulness, and it will pass.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022
Her spirit, her passion, her youth, her courage, her willfulness — I felt all of these things the moment I first saw her.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
