Sentence examples for willful determination from inspiring English sources

But his almost willful determination to ignore everything but the score — to let the music speak entirely for itself, flowing with preternatural ease — extends even to the possibility of knowing Wagner, the composer with which he is most intimately connected.

The resulting novel is by turns mesmerizing and mannered, evocative and opaque: a would-be tour de force encumbered by its talented author's sometimes willful determination to embrace formal innovation at the expense of simple storytelling.

It shows a willful determination to continue ignoring the threat posed by some of the most dangerous regimes in the world, while taking one of the most important defenses against Iran off the table.

The dangers of this development, he astutely points out, is that it reflects a willful determination to deny or ignore her role in promoting Hitler and the Reich, and points, in Germany especially, to "a questionable comprehension of history, which desires to attain 'normality' at any price".

But while Willie's apprenticeship in the London of the 1950's bears a certain resemblance to that of the author -- who as a young immigrant in England also did radio work for the BBC and published a volume of short stories -- he lacks Mr. Naipaul's ferocious dedication to his craft and his willful determination to become a writer.

She sees a connection between the chilly formalism of Edward Weston's photographs and his controlling treatment of his muse and later wife, Charis Harris; and she discerns a parallel between Dante Gabriel Rossetti's self-conscious, theatrical art and his willful determination to treat his longtime mistress Elizabeth Siddal as a latter-day reincarnation of Dante's famous muse, Beatrice.

CR: A combination of keeping cool and an insanely willful determination to meet our obligation.

It's very willful and determined and focussed".

Is Wills's blindness willful?

Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.

Bose is seeking from the court an injunction against continued infringement, a full account of sales of infringing devices, damages including court costs, determination that the infringement is willful and upwards adjustment of damages accordingly, and "other relief" to be determined by the court.