self-will
Example Sentences
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“My self-will had to be abandoned because my self-will was killing me,” Irsay said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
It also evokes the determination, the self-will, of countless immigrants who have chosen to make and call America their home.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021
Thus, as Cooley’s film quickens and deepens, we get a fabulous running joke about the “inner voice,” a staple of American self-will since the days of Emerson.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2019
At one point in the first novel, Outline, she remarks, “I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.”
From Slate • May 25, 2018
As manners are simple, and fortunes limited, the union of interests here is a very grave matter, and inefficiency or self-will on either side brings discomfort, perhaps wretchedness.
From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel
