Sentence examples for willful desire from inspiring English sources

He continued, "We live in the vicinity of busy airports, and we work in tall office towers, depending on others to protect us from the willful desire of terrorists to do us harm.

He says the only way to disbelieve that an Assad chemical weapons attack occurred is to ignore the evidence: Only the most willful desire to avoid reality can assert that this did not occur as described.

A willful desire to block the road to the future".

Absent criminal intent ― a willful desire to break the law ― prosecutors have overwhelmingly avoided bringing such cases.

So trying to suggest that in embracing some aspects of what the Macabees were trying to accomplish one must thereby be committed to rejecting all that is good in the West is an outright distortion, and reflects either intellectual sloppiness or a willful desire to distort.

Aggressive, willful incompetence.

At school, he memorized the Baltimore catechism (which included such instruction as "What is actual sin? Actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission contrary to the law of God").

No doubt the movie wowed them at Sundance because of its unnerving combination of willful sacrilege and religious desire wrapped in the bristling package of Mr. Gosling's muscular performance, delivered with the cinematographer Jim Denault's visual punch.