Sentence examples for willfully poor from inspiring English sources

For the most part, however, we found dose-response relationships between the outcome and independent variables, which would be unlikely, had willfully poor performances subverted test scores to a substantial extent.

We are willfully becoming poor J.B.R., losing the ability to order and name and therefore losing a connection to and a place in the living world.

We are drowning in copious quantities of poor-quality (even willfully addictive) calories, and labor-saving technologies all too often invented in the absence of need.

But it's not too much to hope that the man who did appear there — and who has lived a willfully humble material existence until now, and took the name of the poor's patron saint — will change the church's emphasis.

In some ways, this is a story about money: there's the contrast between the haves and have-nots the narrator builds homes for, the narrative of the father as a poor boy who did actually pull himself up by his bootstraps, and of the narrator as someone who has willfully pushed himself lower down on the economic food chain.

But it has willfully overspent.

This seems willfully petty.

Are people that willfully tech-illiterate?

Republican hostility toward the poor and unfortunate has now reached such a fever pitch that the party doesn't really stand for anything else — and only willfully blind observers can fail to see that reality.

This is willfully myopic, of course.

Did I willfully withhold it?