When she cut short an interview on the Today programme last week, in response to a wilfully ill-informed line of questioning from Sarah Montague, it was entirely in character.
"We had one in February of a wilfully neglected horse that was only four months old, but had collapsed.
It is, in many ways, a wilfully grim and unrelenting book, unredeemed by the kind of beautiful colour tones and glimpses of redemption that the great confessional photographer, Nan Goldin, one of Day's influences, brings to her work.
Just as he reaches the gap between Lauren and Sol Campbell, he glances back over his right shoulder – one fast pass and I'm in – to see a wilfully oblivious Rooney knock the ball a few yards ahead for himself.
Like the sweetshop in Southwold, it was a wilfully old-fashioned endeavour.
A maths graduate who spent his twenties designing flight-simulation software, Shane Carruth announced his change of careers in 2004 with Primer, a wilfully strange sci-fi about two men who accidentally create a time machine.
With support for intervention ebbing fast, especially in Britain, Blair urged a wilfully blind west to realise it must take sides and if necessary make common cause with Russia and China in the G20 to counter the Islamic extremism that lies at the root of all failures of western intervention.
They all share a certain combination of modernity and imperialism – the longing for a "workshop of the world" in a country dominated by a wilfully unproductive rentier capitalism.
Concision in mind, I offer him a wilfully dumb question to pat back, tweet-style: So, Greg, what's your book about?
The support committee of the Tarnac Nine has lucidly argued that antiterrorism has become a full-fledged method of government, a wilfully vague expedient in the arsenal of the modern state.
