Sentence examples for wilfully in from inspiring English sources

It is what Sister Edgar does, first wilfully, in devoting herself to God, and then miraculously, by ascending into cyberspace, "the lunar milk of the data stream", a collectivity of brain or soul (what Teilhard de Chardin called the "noosphere"), which seems to forecast both the death of the printed book and the eternal life of some new universal mind, or in Whitman's terms, "soul".

This was both a barefaced artistic gesture and a political statement, wilfully provocative in its thrust and feminist in its undertow.

Yet the true obstacles in Gaza – clear to Elaraby and Feltman – are wilfully ignored in the disingenuous comments by foreign aid agencies and legislators.

It was irony, I protested, wilfully misrepresented in the press.

Although they both fitted beautifully into the landscape, they were somewhat chaotic, and wilfully aggressive in the abuse of structure.

Both sides have been wilfully tricky in this debate so it is worth conducting a reality check.

So I was there at the very nascent stages, when the government – wilfully and in deepest secrecy – subverted the constitution.

His critics accuse him of being wilfully vague in the document and deliberately avoiding doctrinal clarity; the pope's response is that people are more important than dogma.

A further host of conditions, repeatedly laid down but wilfully ignored in the run-up to elections by the southern African Development Community, an influential regional group of countries, must be met.

We decided to become doctors to help people, and it is unacceptable that we're being wilfully put in a position that not only compromises our mental and physical wellbeing, but also that of our patients.

Stuffed with hoary old detective show tropes, and with red herrings wilfully thrown in and abandoned without explanation, after 90 minutes this flabby whodunnit becomes more of a whocares.