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How to use self-will in a sentence

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When men resign their opinion to the control of self-will, they, of course, become uncandid, and thus blinded.
It does not speak of animose anger, impatience, or self-will, but of animose temptations to these, and temptation is the subject in dispute.
But they have encountered the limits of self-will in a particularly dire way.
But it would be good to know that guided by self-will or diktat, companies have thought about the issue.
In other words, the yolk of the fried egg symbolizes a possibility for self-will.
Its sense of liberation allows us to move, explore, think and act with greater acknowledgement of the power of our own self-will.
Blessed the penances, the self-will sacrificed!
Freedom without solidarity amounts to self-will.
Mind is about all you have of universe reality that is subject to your will, and the soul-the morontia self-will faithfully portray the harvest of the temporal decisions which the mortal self is making.
Or the illusion of the self-will of something not quite alive?
If the thoughts and reflections of the mind can so spoil man's best actions and God's greatest gifts, how much worse will be the evil effects of man's self-will, which are even more corrupt than those of the mind?
Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.
To have no 'self' means we don't have any pride, self-will, self-righteousness, self-seeking ambition, selfish motives, working in our own limitations and all the other things that are self-centered.
Examples from Classical Literature
Stay one moment, and you shall know what your pride and self-will have cost you!
But first must come the abandonment of self-will, bit by bit, to the death.
Pray to them, indeed, we need not, as if they would help us out of any self-will of their own.
In man, self has possession, and self-will the mastery, and there is no room for God.
At that moment all the sulkiness and self-will were crushed out of his little heart.
At 42, Will Self has also demonstrated the self-will to cut out the drug habit that had haunted him since his days as an Oxford undergraduate.
There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will.
And if I had, how my self-will, and pride, and jealousy would have grown!
The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon.
We came away by means of greeds and curiosities imagined by self-will.
With all her secrecy, and self-will, there was not so much as the shadow of anything false in her.
The woman's face was hard-featured and ugly, with the marking lines of strong passions and resolute self-will plainly written on it.
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