Sentence examples for wilfully being from inspiring English sources

"By and large, I'm starting to feel like, if somebody doesn't want to fucking understand – excuse my language – if somebody can't see the contradiction of saying all lives matter... then they're just wilfully being ignorant, and an asshole".

It implies he has spoken directly to the object of his desire, and has wilfully been ignored.

Then Shelley explained that he himself — the man who had just abandoned her — was Harriet's one "firm and constant friend," the only person in the world "by whom your feelings will never wilfully be injured.

"I didn't put my hand there wilfully, it was purely a human reaction to protect myself.

Whether he crossed the line wilfully, or was pushed, is a question on which it is necessary to return an open verdict.

What the BBC have wilfully ignored is whether any other country in Europe is actually any better.

They are being wilfully deceived.

I prefer to think of us as being wilfully optimistic".

There were, to be sure, some beautifully shot scenes, but it was wilfully resistant to being made sense of.

2016 has presented us with a world in which our reality is being wilfully manipulated.

But governments that believe their unilateral actions can "solve" the problem are being wilfully ignorant.