As You Like It is perhaps ideal for such treatment, since in that play the attempt to marry wilfulness and futurity is the outcome of a comic action of forced reconcilement. |
Now he rubs his beady eyes in sheer confusion at the wilfulness of his charges, who simply refuse to listen to common sense anymore. |
This wilfulness was attributed to his youth, and the impatience of his amour-propre. |
It does provide a useful balance for police action, because intention is not required, whereas wilfulness is required under the Criminal Code. |
The mental element can be framed in the terms of intention, knowledge or wilfulness. |
All her wilfulness and sauciness flashed in her eyes as she lifted her glance at last to his and answered. |