Sentence examples for feel willful from inspiring English sources

It didn't feel willful; it felt (as revolutions too rarely do) inevitable.

But abnegations that seem fitting in Starkfield feel willful in the moneyed circles of New York and Paris.

Sometimes it feels willful in its smartness, as if she's suspicious of song.

His melodic tangents felt willful but empty of pretense, as if he were running across forgotten items while foraging in a kitchen cabinet.

But everything else about the production felt like willful propaganda — so much so that Seth MacFarlane, who sang a duet with Sara Bareilles, was compelled to clarify via Twitter that they'd taped their performance the night before, "pre-protest".

Accept responsibility for barking dogs, unauthorized occupants or other lease violations that may have been inadvertent but the landlord felt were willful and intentional.

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

It's hard not to feel personally offended by such willful idiocy.

Although not much appears to have happened at this point — a boy ran and ran some more and then hopped on a bus or two and kept on running — if you're familiar with the Dardennes, you may feel as if you recognize this willful child.

"I feel increasingly alarmed and discouraged by the willful ignorance of Americans to the competitive challenge the Chinese pose to the U.S., including in foreign investment," Mr. Schell said in an interview.

As suicide requires a willful attempt to die, some feel it therefore cannot be said to occur in non-human animals.