No amount of depth can compensate for his character, his willful ways on defense, the way he made the players around him better.
Although he said that he would "love to have her back" at the company, he sounded as if she might have to pay a price for her willful ways.
Though the plot is twisty and the direction elegant, the entire project exudes an air of willful nostalgia for the way things were just four years earlier.
The fastidiously severe images that are usually a watermark of Nolan's willful artistry here give way to an anonymously practical recessiveness; rather than inflect his images, he lets the scale of his format, the 70mm.
There are a lot of angles, but one thing is sure: the mortgage bubble inflated as the Fed, other regulators and lawmakers looked the other way, a willful ignorance that was certainly reinforced by the Bush administration's antiregulatory fervor.
Her mother, Hippolyta Connie Nielsenn), wants to keep her apart from that trade, but the willful Diana gets her way and is trained by her aunt Antiope (Robin Wright) to be a supreme warrior.
Ruth admits that she is "useless," and, in a way, her willful uselessness — she talks about her ineptitude in a little girl's voice — is what Bessie wants, despite her annoyance.
This development angered Mao Zedong for two reasons: he thought, correctly, that it would undermine Soviet prestige, with potentially dangerous consequences in eastern Europe, and he chafed at Khrushchev's warning to other communist parties not to let a willful leader have his way unchecked.
The author's unsparing meditation on his mother, who died at 54 from cancer, examines the inspiring yet destructive force of her love, and probes the mystery of one woman's jagged, willful character and the way it imprints itself on her son.
In a 185-page decision, Judge Sarmina found that "evidence has plainly been suppressed," in a "willful" rather than "accidental" way.
