Sentence examples for some willful from inspiring English sources

But along with some willful naïveté, Mr. Boontje was displaying a sophisticated use of technology.

But a deeper sense of security announces itself on "Made Possible," the band's eighth studio album, partly through some willful departures from the norm.

In any case, when they did meet, Zwelish generally seemed to have some willful challenge ready, as if he prepared with flash cards.

The pills she was given inhibited her sexually, although she did make some willful but unsatisfactory attempts to sleep with other men, including me.

There may have been some willful blindness here – the fraudulent transfer issue was being litigated in state court before the bankruptcy case – yet this group may have a point.

Despite the dark picture drawn by some willful pessimists, including the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the entry of these Islamist parties to the democratic system is not a bad but a good step.

What is certain is that within German intelligence a combination of inefficiency, corruption and, in some instances, willful blindness to the truth, worked to the Allies' advantage.

What some see as willful destructions others will view as the creation of something new.

Robert M. Chesney, an expert on national security law at the University of Texas, said the attacks on the Obama administration's handling of Mr. Abdulmutallab were "mired in misinformation, some of it willful".

The trial, which took place in a closed courtroom in Shiraz in the last two months, has deeply shaken many of the 30,000 Jews in Iran, with some moved to willful silence and others to thoughts of emigration.

But speaking figuratively, Mr. Rapp's latest is an empty farrago of a play so lacking in truth and perception that I almost began to believe the serving of that bird — not to mention the flocks of same thudding against the walls of the house, apparently in mass suicide — constituted some sort of willful joke.