Sentence examples for Very wilful from inspiring English sources

It's only a very recent, very wrong and arguably very wilful misinterpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar to conclude it ends on 21 December 2012.

I remember being a very ascetic and wilful twentysomething who rather enjoyed the fact that the only way that the audience of 50 or so could exit was to walk across the stage.

For if I have made the film sound grim, that is doing it a disservice – one of its achievements is its apparently wilful, but I suspect very carefully calibrated, tonal shifts, which see it moving from light-footed comedy to darkness in the blink of an eye (a quality it shares with other Powell and Pressburger films, including my colleague Xan Brooks's favourite film, A Canterbury Tale).

The real enemy is the wilful ignorance of the troglodyte".

We feel that our dean, the Very Rev Vivienne Faull, has demonstrated time and again a wilful lack of understanding of bellringing at the minster.

The real answer lies in Diamond's skilful, wilful evasiveness.

See that through to its logical conclusion and provincialism becomes an artistic strategy: not a misfortune of birth or temperament, but a wilful rejection, not simply of metropolitan fashion and facility, but of the very idea of a gravitational centre.

Wilful obscurity in the short story works: over the length of a novel it can be very tiresome.

But we doas a profession have to ask ourselves some very serious questions about why the college failed, and why the public mood is such that the charge of wilful neglect is being discussed.

After all, this piece isn't designed to cross-examine anyone about the harmful outcome of wilful ambiguity and reckless interpretation, simply to investigate further the hysterical rumblings that threaten to crease the very carpets of the Sounds office in their clamour to be heard.

"People often argue that the reforms have not been communicated well, but the level of misrepresentation and wilful distortion of what is in the [health and social care] bill has led to many people being very confused about what we are trying to achieve," he writes.