Mr. Houghton is a former acting curator of the Getty who resigned his post there in 1986 after accusing the museum of willfully accepting illegally excavated antiquities.
Initially, the commission's general counsel tied the fund-raising methods directly to Mr. Buchanan, finding he "knowingly and willfully" accepted the improper contributions, according to internal investigative reports that the commission made public just last month.
When Dirk returned to town, he said nothing, and the local media willfully accepted his silence.
Instead of considering alcoholism as a taboo to be dreaded, we willfully accept it as a part of our day-to-day life.
But, just as in the primaries, he willfully refuses to accept what debates are about.
Under a federal statute (52 U.S.C. s 10307(c)), "Whoever knowingly or willfully … pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years".
"I knowingly, willfully and corruptly agreed to accept and did accept, cash bribes," he said in Federal Court in Brooklyn.
And yet we accept these sacrifices willfully because the joy and beauty of motherhood overwhelms them, and challenging as it all may be, these are sacrifices we can adjust to and live with.
That difficult reality, for years denied, obscured, willfully ignored or forgotten, is now increasingly accepted here, historians and French officials say, part of a broader reckoning with France's uncomfortable wartime past.
The events, the specific experiences, are important, but there's an awful randomness to them, which can be accepted or denied or, most often, willfully ignored.
