Sentence examples for willfully not from inspiring English sources

Early in her career, when she was given to contributing essays to arts journals, she wrote that she saw modernism as a way " 'to willfully not remember' the way things are; to not have to exist in relationship to authority, to make a new position... not limited to symbols of lack".

More sinister tactics like tax evasion or willfully not filing a tax return could result in criminal penalties, including jail time.

I too have felt the fever that took hold of them and how it is to lose myself in the group, to allow my political passions to be distorted by the allure of violence, to dissociate myself from my own fear and healthy inhibitions in order to prove myself: to willfully not know.

As I have come to accept that I can no longer justify providing money to my government to pay for the bombs and bullets our forces use to kill millions abroad, or contribute to the funds that supply and resupply the arsenals of our allies, such as Egypt, Israel and Saudi Arabia, as they kill others and repress their own people, my choice to willfully not pay taxes has crystallized.

The survivors reacted angrily, accusing the staff of — willfully or not — not seeing what was really going on in the schools.

She'd merely barnacled to his neck and gripped his cock through his pants while he lost the last six games in a row to Keith Stolarsky, whether willfully or not, Bruno couldn't tell, but he let Stolarsky double him out of each of them and as a result gave back many thousands of the Singapore dollars he'd won, and with relief.

You have to be willfully blind not to know that private excess, not public, caused the problems in Spain and Ireland — and nowhere, not even in Greece, did Keynesian stimulus efforts have anything at all to do with the crisis.

But he is wrong, willfully or not, about everything else.

"They willfully did not apply accounting rules properly.

He likened pitchers to long-distance runners, who can ignore, willfully or not, physical warning signs.

From the minute Lan arrives, she despises Blondie, interpreting her every action -- willfully or not -- as hostile.