Sentence examples for in a willful from inspiring English sources

As described by the lab's director, the acerbic Dr. G. Peter Nanos, the problem involved careless, arrogant "cowboys" engaging in a "willful flouting of the rules".

But the April 2006 letter, which had not been previously disclosed, showed they accused development officials of approving the hiring of Galt not in an unwitting oversight but in a willful effort to bypass their warnings.

Scientists who refuse to look at the consequences of their inventions or who resist questions of societal need are engaging in a "willful blindness that cannot lead to good for society," he said.

I looked for a flicker of comprehension in his eyes, an awareness that his clients were about to display publicly their violations of law, demonstrating for all to see that they had engaged in a willful refusal to bargain.... Kuhn showed not the slightest sign of comprehension.

Sangallo followed the Renaissance precepts regarding the architectural orders on the lower floors, but Michelangelo's top story uses the traditional elements in a willful way, capping it all with an overpowering cornice a personal expression that foreshadowed Mannerism, a leaching of Renaissance ideals, and the subsequent theatrical self-expression of Baroque.

Arms folded, chin high and mouth set in a willful smile, her Patricia greets Jonathan, a man who used her badly, with the look of someone who knows she has the upper hand but also doesn't have the strength to take advantage of it.

James Westbrook Pegler was born in Minneapolis in 1894, a willful son of a straitened, itinerant journalist.

She speaks in ready-made sentences, clearly punctuated, using words like "accurate", "precise" and "concrete" over again to describe her practice - which is striking, given that some critics have perceived in her work a willful disregard of playwrights' intentions.

These rules are supplemented by a criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 208, making it a crime to be involved in any decision in which the person "has a financial interest," punishable by up to five years in prison for a "willful" violation.

The tradition, which claimed its own content to be a non-content, was not so much handed down from past to present as it was imagined in the present, a willful projection into the future, against the reality of a heterogeneous past.

It is a portrait of the commander in chief as a willful optimist, proud of his self-confidence and convinced that any expressions of doubt would make him less of a leader: a man addicted to "Big Ideas and small comforts" (like riding his bike), a stubborn, even obstinate politician loath to change course or second-guess himself, and given to valuing loyalty above almost everything else.