Sentence examples for wilful use of from inspiring English sources

Students of Bainbridge's work will recognise familiar tropes, especially the wilful use of semicolons, dividing sentences from themselves, dispatching you enigmatically in another direction.

On the criminal law side, they supported reducing the use of the death penalty, although "wilful murderers" were still to be executed, and the abduction of a child under 16 was to be considered a capital crime.

"TWC made continuous use of the unregistered title The Butler in wilful violation of the TRB (Title Registration Bureau) rules," the board said.

You cannot compare the use of animal models that has allowed countless medical advances to the wilful cruelty towards animals by a group of people motivated by profit and greed.

This demonstrated lazy, wilful ignorance of the practical realities of drug use and how best to police it.

"The wilful, simplistic act of saying 'no', because of particular individuals' personal prejudices and delusions of authority and jurisdiction, caused the greatest catastrophic terror attacks on US soil".

The wilful destruction of pumpkins.

This was a wilful distortion of the truth.

There's a wilful subversion of scientific-sounding language too.

There is some extreme Op Art as well as the wilful swirls of full-blown psychedelia.

This might explain their apparently wilful oversight of an important event in Chinese history.