self-willed
Example Sentences
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But for all the barriers he’s broken and all the miles he’s logged in his career as a Navy test pilot, Maverick occupies a state of self-willed professional stasis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2022
Maybe that matters less than the fact that Ms. Fox sees her whole life as playing out under the terms of a self-willed destiny.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2019
He did not consider “Peanuts” a children’s comic; even in Snoopy, his most kid-friendly character, Schulz created a self-willed, occasionally anxious fantasist.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 6, 2019
Both homes are now sites of pilgrimage, arbiters of the still resonant mythology of the American dream of self-willed success.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2017
No, he recognized himself, he recognized his hands and feet, the place where he lay and the Self in his breast, Siddhartha, self-willed, individualistic.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
