self-willed
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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
A subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman, Murakami is a master of both suspense and sociology, his language a deceptively simple screen with a mystery hidden behind it.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 10, 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
The labored form of each letter and the irregular space between words was full of the struggle for control over the errant, self-willed pencil.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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