(Chinen) JIMMY GREENE QUARTET (Thursday) Jimmy Greene brings an athletic endurance to his saxophone style, and he recently explored some rewarding long-form compositional ideas: his most recent album, "The Overcomer's Suite" (NuJazz), expresses a willfully broad design.
Out on the sidewalk before the show were people who had hardly heard of the Decemberists — until now a willfully obscure art-rock band whose elaborate story songs and quirky arrangements seemed designed to conceal a potentially popular sound underneath — but somehow they knew that this was a show not to be missed.
Out on the sidewalk before the show were people who had hardly heard of the Decemberists—until now a willfully obscure art-rock band whose elaborate story songs and quirky arrangements seemed designed to conceal a potentially popular sound underneath but somehow they knew that this was a show not to be missed.
The little "Share" buttons are designed to fit Apple's little ecosystem, and the program seems willfully ignorant of any other standards that may already be in place.
Designed by the British architect David Chipperfield, the hotel is proudly modern and willfully cool, populated by a deeply tanned, well-toned clientele in designer flip-flops.
A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that the United States, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, wrongly imprisoned an American under a law designed to keep trial witnesses from fleeing and that since there was evidence that the government may have willfully misused the law against him, his case should go to trial.
Reed and Co. willfully ignore the fact that the defined-benefit pension plans for California's workers are part of the compensation package designed to encourage talented people to dedicate their skills to serving the needs of the state.
Odd Future's willfully repugnant lyrics — the verses contain plenty of violent sexual fantasies, and "faggot" is frequently deployed as a term of address — are designed to nettle cosmopolitan listeners who have come to think of themselves as generally unnettlable, adding an unmistakable element of cruelty to music that can otherwise seem playful.
MOS architects design a wide range of modular buildings around the world that they themselves consider to be experimental and "willfully strange," including their "Element House" and an inflatable structure they proposed for PS1 called "Prehistoric Future".
In an otherwise fantastic game, this quite remarkable design choice willfully imposes a degree of unforgiving, unrelenting difficulty on players that's completely unnecessary, especially given how hard the rest of the game is.
