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And Faulkner's writing style, as many high school students can attest, seems not just difficult, but willfully obscurantist.

Jennifer Coolidge, who plays the perpetually pregnant but willfully unmaternal Edith, attributes some of that warm welcome to timing.

Not "believing in it" — whatever that would mean — but willfully pushing the questions out of my mind.

(Chinen) ★ Claudia Quintet (Thursday) This precisely calibrated but willfully spontaneous chamber-jazz group led by John Hollenbeck, a drummer and composer, makes the layering of timbre a suspenseful event.

The standard to establish bad faith is high – plaintiffs essentially have to show that the company's board knew that Bank of America would be harmed but willfully went forward with the merger.

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET +1 This precisely calibrated but willfully spontaneous chamber-jazz group, led by the drummer-composer John Hollenbeck, came up with the music on "What Is the Beautiful?" for a commission linked to the centenary of Kenneth Patchen, the enterprising American poet.

But he willfully, brilliantly jettisoned any semblance of punk simplicity.

Mr. Scott — playing trumpet as well as cornet, fluegelhorn and soprano trombone — sounds self-assured but also willfully challenged.

But to willfully go into the heart of the projection room forever changes the way you view your own and everyone else's life story.

Of course my son cares about Auntie but I willfully choose to take him at his silly word and have a fight about it.

I have enjoyed Mr. Daisey's work in the past, but this willfully challenging project struck me as a grim endurance test not just for him, but for even the most dedicated theater lover.