Sentence examples for how willful from inspiring English sources

Indeed, to look at the lithe, thin, shadowy figure of Saint Laurent in the late 1960's and early 70's, when he had himself photographed nude for a cologne ad, is to realize just how willful he was.

In reviewing the 1999 production, about the young Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, D. J. R. Bruckner wrote in The New York Times that Mr. Martin "keeps the action swift, evenly paced and deliberate, so that no matter how willful or even foolish de Burgos sometimes seems, the specter of inescapable doom seems to shadow her throughout".

Ron thinks that Alex Rodriguez's 211 game suspension was fair because of how willful and often he violated rules against steroids rules and was particularly irked by his valet in the clubhouse.

His 1977 book about the last days of the Vietnam War, "Decent Interval," describes how the willful ignorance and political illusions of top U.S. officials prevented any serious planning for an evacuation of America's Vietnamese allies.

I wonder how this willful, now probably starving, daughter of a dentist and a homemaker was encouraged as a child in Westfield, N.J.

How can such willful ignorance thrive in today's seas of knowledge?

Taylor's deglamorizing approach focuses on the tension beneath the willful gaiety — how the "promise of good times and limitless horizons" was soon dashed by "the reality of... economic pressures".

They would, however, have to demonstrate that Xerox was willful or negligent in how it reported its income.

And since one of the people that Mr. Fink 'meets with' was a scientist that he funded to study global temperature data, you have to wonder how much experience Rich Fink has with willful ignorance.

Is Wills's blindness willful?

The book closes with a relatively brief discussion of how to mitigate the conditions in which willful blindness can flourish.