Sentence examples for wilful man from inspiring English sources

He was an uncompromising figure, a wilful man who, during the 1940s, refused to collaborate with the Nazis and was not at all keen on his daughter becoming an artist.

Beyond such wilful attuning to Invisible Man, this impressive debut contains a Whitman-like multiplicity.

He shares his wilful ignoring of reality ("A man way out in there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine") with the 1920s hucksters, but his story is post-1929, scrabbling for pitiful chances of work so as not to lose his home and self-respect, and hung up on the memory – or dream?

James Murdoch – the man who showed "wilful ignorance" of phone hacking according to the culture, media and sport committee, which the current culture secretary chaired – is now back in charge at Sky. Ministers have failed to implement the effective form of independent press regulation that Leveson recommended, and which the Tories signed up to as part of the cross-party agreement in 2013.

Derham concludes: "For it is a Sign a Man is a wilful, perverse Atheist, that will impute so glorious a Work, as the Creation is, to any Thing, yea, a mere Nothing (as Chance is) rather than to God.

Fleming had a very personal understanding of the complex relationship between Scarlett and Rhett and the problems of a confident long-time bachelor and celebrated ladies' man adjusting to a wilful wife and a different way of life.

"I have never done wilful harm to any human being".

For instance, he recounts in detail one example of Caravaggio's wilful self-destructiveness. Having killed a man in a duel in Rome, he travelled to Malta, hoping to join the Order of the Knights of St John, with whom he might find freedom and forgiveness.

The younger man is said to have displayed "wilful ignorance" of one e-mail which suggested phone-hacking was widespread.

Whether a wilful boxer like Nicolas Sarkozy or a soft-consensus man like Hollande, people think neither model works.

In an interpretation perfectly suited to this most wilful, intellectually considered of actors, the villain is a man driven by a military plan of entrapment.