Sentence examples for wilful about from inspiring English sources

The same thing happened to Armstrong, Crosby and Presley; but none were so wilful about their decline as Sinatra.

Wilful misconceptions about homelessness abound.

In both Naipaul and Lawrence, an almost wilful prickliness about the world seems inextricable from a preternatural sensitivity and openness to its vividness.

It's a real source of shame that our politicians are keeping us in wilful ignorance about something that is happening an hour away from King's Cross".

Llama trekking through the Austrian East Tyrol has a strong whiff of wilful gimmickry about it: contemplating the itinerary - walking between mountain huts in the Hohe Tauern national park - I found it difficult to banish the image of Michael Palin in the Ripping Yarns episode, Across the Andes By Frog.

Whittingdale has come out firmly and squarely against statutory regulation of the press, despite his committee's stark findings earlier this year that Rupert Murdoch was "not fit" to run an international company and that his son James had shown "wilful ignorance" about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.

He added: "There is a degree of cowardice and wilful ignorance about this condition.

Is it thanks to their inherent conflicts, to their failure to understand the complex instruments they are rating or, perhaps, to investors' confusion, wilful or otherwise, about what ratings are supposed to reveal?

The child is wilful and certain about the connections he/she makes in play.

'Psychosomatic illness', in popular usage, tends to connote deception, if not of others then at least of oneself, raising sensitive questions about wilful motivation and individual culpability (Lawrie, 2000; Stone et al., 2004).

He is clearly sceptical about the wilful randomness of the dadaists and about Lenin's vision of literature as a form of social engineering.