By the most common objective criteria — such as a willingness to strike down Congressional laws as unconstitutional — conservative justices are at least as activist as liberals.
Her decision to write Rossellini a fan letter and offer her acting services is the impulsive flip side of such reticence — a willingness to plunge into the uncharted, up to a point.
Pope Francis does not offer any concrete changes of policy such as a willingness to see women enter the clergy or a loosening of the church's tough approach to contraception.
Baseball needs a commissioner without such obvious financial conflicts of interest and without such a clear willingness to place the dollars generated by gaudy, false home run numbers ahead of the history and good of the game.
Farron claims that the Lib Dems acquire and retain a conscience, but surely if that were true they would not have exhibited such a Faustian willingness to sell their soul for a fleeting share of power.
In such a context, willingness to speak is often valued more than the accurate use of the L2.
But that doesn't mean Trump can't take other steps, such as signalling a willingness to be more flexible and to adapt to changed circumstances.
