Sentence examples for willful in from inspiring English sources

As a result, the bureau issued Mr. Borgelt a warning letter, saying that future record keeping violations "will be viewed as willful in nature," a finding that would allow the firearms agency to bring criminal charges against him or begin proceedings to revoke his license.

Sometimes it feels willful in its smartness, as if she's suspicious of song.

Ogbuke Obasi, on the left wing, tried the hardest but was also the most willful in shooting wide.

Still, for a singer who is also an experienced conductor, Mr. Cura is maddeningly willful in this performance.

Beginning with Players (1977), DeLillo's vision turned darker, and his characters became more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance.

But abnegations that seem fitting in Starkfield feel willful in the moneyed circles of New York and Paris.

But most here, both those opposed and supportive, think that there is a kind of inexorable evolution taking place, a willful, if in some cases tentative, hike toward normalization.

"We intend to prove that BP was grossly negligent and that the company engaged in willful misconduct in causing this disastrous oil spill".

In this light, Weber's political virtue resides not simply in a subjective intensity of value commitment nor in a detached intellectual integrity, but in their willful combination in a unified soul.

In the end, this hypocrisy and willful ignorance in supporting an unqualified candidate tells you all you need to know about the motives of the conservatives that back Betsy DeVos.

In another, O'Keefe portrayed an employee being a willful participant in an underage prostitution scheme even though the employee was part of a sting operation to expose the prostitution scheme.