Sentence examples for willful refusal from inspiring English sources

To focus on the milk and honey rather than the blood and guts is a willful refusal to grapple with the morally problematic nature of the Bible.

"Terrorism" 's style is European; its flatness reflects a willful refusal to entertain — being inspired to think at the theatre is, for a Continental audience, entertainment enough.

This self-deluding scientist will come to embody just about everything that has brought about the climate-change crisis in the first place: greed, heedlessness and a willful refusal to think about consequences or the future.

While there is now, finally, a great deal of talk among the politicians and in the news media about unemployment, there is still almost a willful refusal to focus on just who is suffering the most from joblessness and underemployment.

This blasé attitude, this willful refusal to acknowledge the scope of the horror, leaves the gun nuts free to press their crazy case for more and more guns in ever more hands.

She told Jackson that she was the product of a failed abortion and harangued her constantly about her bad hair, her weight, and her "willful" refusal to cultivate feminine charm.

The 14th Amendment holds that it is unconstitutional to imprison individuals for debts they can't pay (there is a caveat for willful debt refusal) but, as the ACLU noted in 2012, the incarceration of debtors has become "a growing problem nationwide".

In the face of turmoil, there's a willful nonreactivity about her, a refusal — perhaps strengthened by her many years of mind exercises — to be deterred.

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How else can I explain this bizarrely American inaction, resignation, willful ignorance of research, and refusal to look beyond our borders for solutions?

Her lover, a spiteful sadist devoted to what he had thought to be their mutual project of Beth's humiliation, is bewildered by "her willful, masculine, stupid somethingness," her annoying refusal to be beaten or burned.