Sentence examples for willful like from inspiring English sources

The solitude of Steve McQueen, once straightforwardly cool, now looks dogged and willful, like a borderline compulsion, and Richard Attenborough, too, edges nearer to the manic than the stoic.

You can get a jittery, willful guy like Jeff to shut himself in his car, but could a depressed person really find the energy to care?

The suit is in Canada, and has to do with Canadian royalties law, but I guarantee there are people scouring the RIAA's records right now looking for a willful oversight like this.

Either Babeu has no idea how aggressively far-right the modern Republican Party has become in the Age of Obama, or he has chosen willful ignorance, like too many openly gay Republicans.

Students pushed-out of school though zero-tolerance policies like willful defiance were more likely to end up in the very prisons and detention centers the state built.

Like misbehaving kids sentenced to a time-out, parents will know, many of these people (whose inner child became an outer nutjob) will continue to act like willful brats.

This does seem like willful and purposeful negligence in the execution of his duties to me — like a doctor who fails to keep up with standards of care.

Your opinion pages have the feel of a spoiled child's tantrum while a willful president, acting like a kindergarten bully, gets his way.

There seems to be something like willful blindness on the part of the court to recognize the mandate of the law.

To do an archaeological dive into the newspaper clippings is to be reminded that intentional, willful stupidity descended like a vaporous cloud on everyone, from owners to union mates to sportswriters, to all of us fans.

Punishing only those who were caught (with varying degrees of evidence) while rewarding those who got away with it seems like willful ignorance of the depth of the problem.