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
In freedom, the self-will that black women had demonstrated while enslaved had room to blossom.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2017
Yet she had misgivings about indulging the obstinate self-will, 'so like his poor father's,' she told herself, with another sigh.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus
