Sentence examples for a more willful from inspiring English sources

A more willful Bryant wanted more freedom, a stubborn O'Neal wanted the ball.

Like its tiny hero, "Kirikou" proceeds at its own pace, and that pace is a more willful and slower piece of storytelling than children are accustomed to getting from American animated films, in which emotional crises are worked out like story problems (if Buzz and Woody need to get to point A...).

"Johnston's eloquent anti-epic is in its thorny way a respectful tribute to a place more willful than even its toughest inhabitants," Luc Sante wrote here in 1999.

The Bulldogs will play Purdue next week in Albuquerque because it was more brutish, more willful and more craven than a St. John's team (25-8) thad had owned those qualities in winning 13 of their last 14 games.

First elected in 1933, he was hailed as the city's savior during an economic crisis, and then he gradually became more willful and blind to his own mistakes.

Ms. Jones's songs create a languid vibe and let it linger; Ms. Spektor's seduction is more willful and rhapsodic, with nursery-rhyme simplicity giving way to pounding, wailing peaks.

No more willful blindness.

Cancer appears to be even more willful and calculating than previously imagined.

But his own pessimism seems more willful than the hope he condemns.

The place has more willful eccentrics than the entire run of "Northern Exposure".

Beginning with Players (1977), DeLillo's vision turned darker, and his characters became more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance.