Sentence examples for willful man from inspiring English sources

Pitt may know this, because he tries hard to make Achilles a complexly willful man, murderous yet majestic, a vain athlete needled by the realization that the glory he desires is worthless.

A god to the right in America, Churchill is admired in England but hardly beatified — more often thought of as a willful man of sporadic accomplishment who was at last called upon to do the one thing in life that he was capable of doing supremely well.

A willful man who nurses powerful loyalties and gargantuan grudges, the 45-year-old Trottier will take over an underachieving team full of proud superstars like Eric Lindros, Brian Leetch and Pavel Bure for sure and, possibly, Mark Messier, Mike Richter and Theo Fleury.

A sober, willful man in a T-shirt and slacks, he told me that while the drought was a primary motivating factor for the ban on marijuana, so was the industry's effect on the culture of the tribe.

"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible".

Here begins the enduring national legend of Wilson as Christ, the American leader clean of hands and noble at heart, betrayed by perfidious Europe and the "little group of willful men" back home in the Senate.

Amazingly, "Sixteen Wounded" is also free of the rudiments of docu-drama; it means to be dramatic on purely theatrical terms and to develop two flawed, willful men who forge an unlikely bond.

At each of his events during the day, Brown said of the hide-the-funders No on 30 campaign, "There aren't more than a handful of willful men" funding the drive to kill the budget-balancing initiative which would raise their taxes.

The family will go on, but the boundless ambition is gone, worn away by the tides of history, fate, misfortune and the willful acts of men".

Fela was a complex, willful and often contradictory man.

The novel created a compelling story of one man's willful disappearance and another's reluctant pursuit.