Sentence examples for willful character from inspiring English sources

The author's unsparing meditation on his mother, who died at 54 from cancer, examines the inspiring yet destructive force of her love, and probes the mystery of one woman's jagged, willful character and the way it imprints itself on her son.

When his elder brother, Arthur, died in 1502, Henry became the heir to the throne; of all the Tudor monarchs, he alone spent his childhood in calm expectation of the crown, which helped give an assurance of majesty and righteousness to his willful, ebullient character.

As Juliet, Ms. Kent is girlishly delicate and willful; the role is one of her best, bringing her to life in a way that other characters sometimes don't.

Funny, absorbing, subtle and sad, "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet" charts the way the character's willful innocence finally confronts the wider world.

No amount of depth can compensate for his character, his willful ways on defense, the way he made the players around him better.

Even more explicitly ethical than was his methodology, Weber's political project also discloses his entrenched preoccupation with the willful resuscitation of certain character traits in modern society.

Take Ester, a poet, essayist and the main character in Willful Disregard.

Her characters are willful and resilient in ways that make it difficult to see them simply as victims.

Far from being shallow hedonists, these are passionate, willful and self-aware characters trying to make sense of their messy lives.

In Haneke's film, the style is the premise for the setup: the willful exclusion of the characters' inner life (yes, there is a dream sequence and a brief fantasy both generic) throws the burden of interpretation on viewers.

And yet it does not entirely succeed in realizing its purpose, for two reasons: it is too often defeated by the willful childishness of its characters and, more important, it slides to a happy, Hollywood, love-conquers-all sort of ending that is inconsistent with the spiritual darkness of its overall vision.