Sentence examples for willfully so from inspiring English sources

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That was derelict, perhaps willfully so.

Most everything here is tender; sometimes it is willfully so.

Mr. Iosseliani's universe is seamlessly strange without seeming willfully so.

Everything Ms. Nakadate (pronounced nah-ka-da-TAY) has done during her decade-long career is discomfiting, and willfully so.

But Sharon appears blind -- maybe willfully so -- to the rising anti-Israeli-ism in what he sees as anti-Semitism.

"The question, generally, is not whether the statements are inaccurate, but whether they are willfully so," the prosecutors continued.

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Picard doesn't say that Wilpon knew Madoff was a fraud, but that he was willfully ignorant — so hooked on the consistent investment returns Madoff produced that he spurned warnings from investment experts, even one of his own partners, that the results were too good to be true.

"He has damaged his own credibility by so willfully dismissing, so cavalierly dismissing, this major concern of many, many voters".

"What's also required is that they have done so willfully".

Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times, "the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing — it's dull".

Unfortunately, the real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd that "The Casual Vacancy" is not only disappointing — it's dull.

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