Sentence examples for willful that from inspiring English sources

The novel's heroine is Devi, a girl so willful that, at age 10, she declares to her mother that she will marry no one other than Machaiah, a handsome local hero and famed tiger hunter.

There are no melodramatics in the latter portrayal, just a silent, simmering rage at everyone but her children, a tormented sense of being forever on the outside looking in, and a self-destructiveness so willful that when her ex-husband (above, with Ms. Steen) lets her take the boys on an outing near a lake, it's impossible not to think she's going to drown them.

The technical questions about nuclear generation had not been solved: the technology was not mature and still so willful that it taxed to the limits the management ability of every utility that took it on -- right up to 2013, and Edison's abandonment of San Onofre after a failed major upgrade. .

Both films have a willful incoherence that will drive away as many people as it draws in.

I'm not talking about blind optimism here -- the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.

Formal and stylistic elements were combined with a willful inconsistency that achieved an often playful effect.

The same ideological arrogance and willful ignorance that drove the invasion informed the crucial early months of the occupation.

It led him into willful eccentricities that may raise unkind questions about the cogency of his early triumphs.

"Is there anything other than willful blindness that would prevent us from getting behind those statements?" he asked.

"It was this combination of endorsement and either strategic or willful indifference that created the proper conditions for the state killings".

But these only emphasize the hectic, willful mediocrity that characterizes the rest of the movie, and far too many of its kind.