Sentence examples for rather willing from inspiring English sources

I suppose you could say that he ended up being rather willing to give "Lolita" over to popular culture.

Julian Barnes describes Tietjens as inhabiting an "inept saintliness," and, indeed, he is a loveable, and rather willing, martyr.

The family patriarch is a bandit who rapes a village woman and is stoned to death; his (rather willing) victim dies soon after childbirth.

Most South Korean fans, however, have shown little taste for the political tempest and have proven rather willing supporters of the North Korean athletes.

Maulana Shafayat Mohammed, the Trinidadian-born imam at Darul Uloom who is known for preaching against the misuse of Islamic teachings to justify violence, described Mr. Padilla as a student hungry for knowledge, "neither quarrelsome nor radical but rather willing to listen and obey".

Viewed through the lens of the technology acceptance model [ 1, 2] we could conclude that learners are rather willing to accept online learning, but not necessarily more willing (or more demanding) than they were at the start of the decade.

Richard H. Escobales Jr. Buffalo, March 1, 2010 To the Editor: Assuming that all black women who obtain abortions are victims of racism rather than willing recipients of a medical procedure they deem necessary is truly racist.

They may have been rather cavalier, willing to take relatively high risks by purchasing cheap policies that don't cover many kinds of costs, before Obamacare made those policies illegal.At first glance, these people aren't angry that government benefits are being altered.

A post on the Football Supporters Europe Facebook page suggests people clearly visible in attendance at a match Uefa were so determined to have played in an empty stadium are among 300 folk invited by sponsors, who European football's governing body seem rather less willing to inconvenience or upset.

As the Three Lions prepare for another international tournament, the relative lack of hype over a team not expected to do well is a refreshing contrast to Mays of yore when the press were rather more willing to allow themselves to get carried away.

Attempting to relieve God of responsibility for the occurrence of evil, Aquinas insisted that God merely permits evil to happen, rather than willing it.