Under its conservative prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, Japan has tried to challenge some of the assertions about the women, who many historians say were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military but who many Japanese say willfully worked as prostitutes.
Like much of Brecht, this willfully alienating work has proved hard for Americans to conquer.
It is also his most willfully whimsical work, with fey Irish eccentricities slathered on so thickly that you suspect that Mr. McDonagh had set out to sour us all forever on twinkly Gaelic charm.
The State Department of Correctional Services "willfully permitted a work environment to flourish where the credible evidence showed" that Officer Humig "could have been killed because she is a gay female".
Celebrated designers, from Louis Kahn to Frank Gehry, usually don't build much until their late forties, and they Gehry and such others before him such as I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright often work willfully into their ninth and tenth decades.
While he willfully describes his work as nostalgic, Tull's position in time complicates this idea.
His work willfully avoids a chronological, ordered, historical view of the uprising, instead focusing on capturing humanity and the emotions of the participants.
Mr. Youssef, a naturalized American citizen born in Egypt, said in his complaint that "no other non-Arab F.B.I. employee with similar background and experience was willfully blocked from working 9/11-related matters".
These retro versions of Martin's questing early work feel willfully arbitrary.
There must be some nasty bug that causes writers who catch it to willfully damage their own work.
