willfulness

Example Sentences

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There’s a willfulness to the story that isn’t always easy to overlook, though the fluid staging gives the events a natural flow.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

Petrenko, small and smiling, his gestures precise, is the antithesis of willfulness.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2022

She is as much of a royal as she is a would-be general, skilled at riding her dragons and standing up to her dangerous uncle Daemon, who appreciates her willfulness.

From Salon • Aug. 21, 2022

And there it is: the sins of commission and omission — both willfulness and the failure to do what is right — played out before our very eyes, at home and abroad.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

When he was grown Lord Sorve in the willfulness of old age named him heir of Estre.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin