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self-willed

adjective

Obstinate; strong-minded

  • He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction.

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They gild A dark that would truly scare If there was nothing there The horror of there not being something, good or bad or neither, made or found, willed or self-willed.

Meanwhile, self-willed intolerance is growing.

It was a self-willed isolation.

"Pretty damaged, self-willed, extremely young".

You could never pin down that self-willed man.

And yet this mood can seem self-willed.

The self-willed existence of redundant PhD programmes mirrors academic isolationism, anachronism and narcissism.

These no longer seem apt for today's more confident and self-willed Germany.

They are strong self-willed characters (they do not wish to be ruled by a king).

Their common subject, however, is freedom, the self-willed liberation of a difficult, defiant individual.

By self-willed she means "the capacity to make its own choices in all senses.

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