There's no comparison, actually, between narcissistic self-promotion and willful self-destruction.
Nor is she the willful, self-indulgent dilettante she embodies in "You Wont Miss Me".
The combination of tactical convenience, prophylaxis, thin substance and willful self-deception is hardly the stuff of long-term relationships.
There was nothing cosmetic about the mudlike chocolate she smeared over her body in willful self-degradation.
He may be despicable, but his willful, self-recreating energy and Kelly's are the engine of the world and the emblem of the times.
There is a willful self-destructiveness in the air here as if America has all the time and money in the world for petty politics.
Joe's willful self-destruction — he meets his death in Babylon — was a literary intimation of what Odets feared most in life: his own spiritual atrophy.
"Willful self-abuse" was epidemic, its author announced, and without the aid of commercially available medical remedies, the prognosis for victims was dire.
The country's record is just too damning, he says: to expect better in the future is to indulge in willful self-delusion.
Jay-Z has mythologized his life before, of course — many of his most resonant lyrics, particularly those on his autobiographical masterpiece, "The Black Album," are works of willful self-dramatization.
BY her own admission, Alberta Lee was a contentious handful as a teenager and a willful, self-absorbed young woman whose lack of direction concerned her conservative immigrant parents.
