Sentence examples for willful from inspiring English sources

Both films have a willful incoherence that will drive away as many people as it draws in.

One day, they will understand the callousness and bitterness and willful ignorance they currently represent.

Willful violation of a new obligation to certify the accuracy of their accounts will carry a sentence of 20 years, for instance, rather than ten years in the Senate bill.

What's unusual about the New Jersey bar case is that the plaintiffs are not the familiar type in these cases: motorists or stop-and-frisk victims outraged by what they say are invasive searches and a willful disregard by police for privacy rights.

The payment is not so high that there is really no choice but to buy health insurance; the payment is not limited to willful violations, as penalties for unlawful acts often are; and the payment is collected solely by the IRS through the normal means of taxation.

Wired calls it a "willful technological step backwards".

Many have criticised these companies for bringing back debtors' prisons by jailing people unable to pay privately-imposed fines, in direct violation of Bearden v Georgia, a Supreme Court case from 1983 that found that jailing someone for nonpayment of fines due to an inability to pay (rather than willful withholding of funds) violates the Equal Protection clause.

On both issues we see some segment of people misunderstanding or discounting the other side in a way that seems almost willful.