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Cave, though, as many of his more wilfully melodramatic songs suggest, has always tended towards the extreme in order to ram home a point.

He has remixed his own images of young ravers in Ibiza, actively destroying his quiet individual portraits of teens in their hotel rooms in favour of a collective atmosphere that is more wilfully unfocussed.

The plotting was extraordinary, and Wainwright's care with scenes of violence – tell, don't show – just pointed up the gratuitousness with which it's so often managed in more (wilfully?) clumsy hands.

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But more deplorably, it is wilfully hiding this from public scrutiny.

You wouldn't take a child anywhere near this treatment of Hansel and Gretel, any more than you would wilfully expose them to full details of what went on in that Cleveland basement.

"Look!" said their director Włodzimierz Staniewski, "Pure Chagall!" Emma says there are no straight lines in Chagall's paintings – he tailored his perspective to more comfortably suit his wilfully wry view of the world.

The Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs, long considered a shrewd winner from the financial crisis, was slapped with potentially devastating fraud charges todayas US regulators accused the firm of fiddling investors out of more than $1bn£640m0m) by wilfully mis-marketing toxic sub-prime mortgage-related securities.

Franz West's Garden Pouf is a zigzag sculpture you are encouraged to touch, and which contrasts wilfully with the more formal lines of surrounding buildings.

In all, 3,200 were murdered under his dictatorship, half of them in his first year [1973-74]... Some 30,000 more were tortured.Was Friedman wilfully ignorant about these aspects of Pinochet's record? Was he flattered by the opportunity to stamp a country with his ideas?

Could it really be true after so long a history of sporting isolation following the 1960 games South Africa was banned from the Olympics until 1992, and was banned from official international cricket from 1970 to 1991 that one of the nation's main sports was wilfully flirting once more with ostracism?

If its record of historical global temperatures is flawed - still more if its scientists have wilfully manipulated that record - the edifice tumbles down.

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