Sentence examples for willful tendency from inspiring English sources

But we — I — didn't want to call it the Groton Feminist Group because of the willful tendency, widespread then and persistent still, to misunderstand what feminism is.

But we I didn't want to call it the Groton Feminist Group because of the willful tendency, widespread then and persistent still, to misunderstand what feminism is.

For all the evident breadth of the pieces, Mr. Abas approached most of them in the same way: "Kinderszenen" had willful tempos and a tendency toward loudness; the Bach-Busoni appeared innocent of any notion of the Baroque.

The entire human race, you see, is afflicted with a tendency toward willful behavior, Dobson says.

The answer to that question lies in football's tendency to indulge in willful ignorance when it comes to political controversy.

Is Wills's blindness willful?

"There's too great a tendency to label their behavior as willful.

For readers unfamiliar with this writer's work, this slender volume, deftly translated by Jay Rubin, may serve as a succinct introduction to his imaginative world, embodying in miniature the pleasures and frustrations of his fiction: its ability to turn spiritual fatigue and other modern states of mind into resonant fables, as well as its tendency to devolve into whimsy and willful abstraction.

(The simplifying assumptions of most statistical models are in fact so great that they can almost never be used successfully to reconstruct the very historical data used to construct the models). They reveal broad tendencies and recurring patterns, but in a dynamic society shot through with willful and imaginative people making conscious choices, they cannot make reliable predictions.

I could forgive the silly flavours, the exorbitant prices and the tendency to stuff them full of inedible amounts of caramel, but gourmet doughnuts' greatest crime is their willful blindness to the fact that a deep-fried doughnut is best when freshly cooked.

Her book, which is part memoir and part treatise, argues that the United States has a tendency not just to ignore international corruption but to compound it, and that in places like Afghanistan this willful ignorance can be destabilizing and dangerous.