Sentence examples for As willful from inspiring English sources

As for Masters, she proves to be just as willful as Kilcannon.

It is not nearly as willful as rushing (entering a car before riders inside can exit) or as oblivious as stopping (entering a car and lingering at the threshold, while dozens behind you try to get in).

When Hesther bites Rohan in (feigned) self-defense, he responds with delight and admiration ("I never thought I'd find a woman with a spirit as willful as mine!"); the climactic scene involves the use of a horsewhip, applied with an intensity that transcends the purely punitive.

As willful as he was brilliant, Thomas De Quincey left Oxford short of a degree after the university dropped its requirement that exams be answered in ancient Greek; he didn't see the point in finishing if there was no opportunity to flaunt his superior grasp of the language.

What some see as willful destructions others will view as the creation of something new.

As a result, the bureau issued Mr. Borgelt a warning letter, saying that future record keeping violations "will be viewed as willful in nature," a finding that would allow the firearms agency to bring criminal charges against him or begin proceedings to revoke his license.

Traditionally, scientists have studied secrecy as a social act, as the willful hiding of information from others.

In the premodern era, Ms. Neiman explains, evil referred as much to natural catastrophes as to willful acts.

"Wright has made a film as loopy and willful as its protagonists," he writes.

The Dar Adal fantasy is that the bureaucracy can be as coördinated and willful as a fist.

At some point, his good-natured optimism began to feel almost as grotesque and willful as the temptations of the villains around him.