It is the most polemical of three separate but almost simultaneous cases in which the judge is accused of wilful abuse of his powers as an investigating magistrate at Spain's national court.
The Body Artist feels like a wilful contraction of DeLillo's powers, a self-conscious rebooting of his sensory memory, almost an aftershock of humility.
The greatest problem with economics, he argued, was its "wilful denial of the presence of power and political interests".
Mr Wahid's detractors argue that the longer he stays in power, the more egotistical, wilful and enfeebled he will become.
In another sense, this wilful ignorance and arrogance gives Mehring his power and ability to excel, and sets the course towards tragedy - for everyone else.
The fate of such monuments in post-colonial Dublin and the ways in which the fledgling state and particular groups within it sought to express their new found power through both the official and oftentimes wilful destruction of these royal statues is then examined.
This might explain their apparently wilful oversight of an important event in Chinese history.
It was "an act of wilful madness" for the South Australian government to let an unprofitable coal power station there close, rather than paying it to continue operating, Judith Sloan wrote in the Australian.
The job of a writer, especially in a postwar West Germany wrapped in wilful amnesia and silence, was to keep drumming, drumming, drumming: "pissing on the pillars of power, sawing away at the throne", and hauling painful memories to the surface again.
The state's power, then, is the product neither of God nor of sheer force but instead of the wilful transference of individuals' powers or rights to it.
