Sentence examples for willful about from inspiring English sources
My job is to breathe life into this tiny ember without being too willful about it, otherwise it will elude me".
Likewise, in his search for an alternative to spectacle, he is too willful about antitheatrical gestures.
Linda had never intended to "be clinging to life like some idiot," she wrote, but there was also something willful about her withdrawal from human contact.
Ms. Case is just as willful about song structures, dissolving verses and choruses into rhapsodic declamation and insistent refrains, subliminally demonstrating that anything can happen.
"At some point the bishops have to realize that they speak in willful ignorance about what homosexuality is and about sexuality in general".
Opponents say that the nostalgia many residents here cherish about the boom years is the product of willful forgetfulness about the well-documented cancer deaths and environmental destruction the uranium mines produced.
That requires a willful ignorance about the facts.
"There's a willful misunderstanding about the Roma being nomadic," Mr. Massarotto said.
Hence, perhaps, Karzai's willful blindness about what his own brothers are up to.
Fashion people often display a willful ignorance about technology: the favored mode of communication among several titans of the industry is the fax.
In the face of turmoil, there's a willful nonreactivity about her, a refusal — perhaps strengthened by her many years of mind exercises — to be deterred.
