Sentence examples for willful it from inspiring English sources
It didn't feel willful; it felt (as revolutions too rarely do) inevitable.
My job is to breathe life into this tiny ember without being too willful about it, otherwise it will elude me".
Much as "The Station Agent" nimbly evaded the obstacles of cuteness and willful eccentricity it had strewn in its own path, so does "The Visitor," with impressive grace and understatement, resist potential triteness and phony uplift.
Its odd form seems willful, and it is based on an unnecessary conceit: the top section is perfectly aligned with the street grid of San Francisco, which can be seen from the observatory's windows.
It wasn't just his passion or his ability to bring out every detail of the score and deal with the singers' sometimes willful phrasing; it was that he conducted "Tosca" as if it really mattered.
The technical questions about nuclear generation had not been solved: the technology was not mature and still so willful that it taxed to the limits the management ability of every utility that took it on -- right up to 2013, and Edison's abandonment of San Onofre after a failed major upgrade. .
The company is spending hundreds of millions of euros to try to demonstrate that it is a responsible corporate citizen and a valuable contributor to the local economy, not the willful opportunist it is often portrayed as in France.
"While some look at Hershey and see either a beneficent angel or a willful tyrant, it is the great charm of D'Antonio's book that he will not plunk entirely for one judgment or the other," Benjamin Cheever wrote here.
(But be careful here, especially if your daughter is willful. It would be a shame to chase her out of college over a silly tattoo).
Her shock-and-awe imagery is surely willful; but it is grounding for the blooms of her deepest passion — to paint — in ever-surprising, delicate nuances.
He said the department had dealt with any "willful misconduct" it discovered but strongly denied any widespread problems in his force.
