Sentence examples for willful child from inspiring English sources

I crossed my arms like a willful child.

James, the youngest of Rupert's four adult children, was a willful child.

He was a willful child and didn't like to listen to advice.

She was a difficult woman, had been a willful child, a moody, recalcitrant girl given to flashes of temper; severity and suspicion came later.

Being a willful child, I demanded that I should be allowed to open my presents on the 28th as it wasn't "fair" to wait an extra day.

Lindy, who has always been a stubborn, willful child, becomes increasingly defiant as a teenager, and one day, she just leaves home -- and doesn't return.

In spite of a strict convent education, Bankhead was a willful, headstrong child with a remarkable facility for attracting attention.

In "The Favourite," Colman's Anne is jowly, lumbering and capricious; a willful child-woman who screams for attention and vulnerably displays her chronic insecurity and the deep unhappiness occasioned by losing 17 children to miscarriages, stillbirth and childhood death.

Perhaps Poe's most famous force is the "Imp of the Perverse," what he identified as a human compulsion, often demonstrated by willful children (Highsmith long considered herself to be an adolescent boy), to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.

For "Please Don't Send Me Down a Baby Brother" she adopts the voice of a stubborn, willful little child, and for "I Can Cook Too" she becomes a tough, swaggering go-getter.

As played by the exuberant, curly-mopped Simon, Boudu is a willful, concupiscent child; he rattles through the household like a Marx Brother whose breakage costs money, whose insults sting, and whose priapic antics prove authentically destructive.