Eventually, this structure, Il Monumento Continuo, would cover the entire surface of the planet, leaving the Earth as featureless as the smoothest desert, or, more to the point, as a wilfully low-brow, suburban-style western city.
Stage curfews are ignored if not wilfully broken.
These days she is often seen in low-heeled, wilfully awkward-looking leather pumps of her own design.
A chorus of finance ministers accused America of wilfully pushing the dollar down.
And then there were the clothes, which seemed too wilfully distracting even for a crime drama as low on plot as this.
Mr Farage did his best not to rise to the bait but also delivered a few "low blows" of his own, accusing the Lib Dem man of "wilfully lying" about the extent of Brussels' control of UK laws.
The subtleties and implications of these statistical concepts are often not understood or are wilfully ignored by media commentators or the general public, and thus the concept of "average" is often misinterpreted as the lowest acceptable standard of behaviour.
Or maybe wilfully waylaid.
They are being wilfully deceived.
