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How to use wilfulness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wilfulness? Here are some examples.

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Now he rubs his beady eyes in sheer confusion at the wilfulness of his charges, who simply refuse to listen to common sense anymore.
I have a fellow feeling for the absent-minded who are accused of wilfulness.
The process by which the poll tax was agreed was, he believes, a textbook illustration of the dangers of prime ministerial wilfulness.
We should encourage real freedom, namely freedom from evil, and not wilfulness and lawlessness which destroy and demean humankind.
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.
Thanks to his wilfulness and bellicosity, this posturing ninny bears substantial responsibility for the deaths of 10m people.
Our country, with its tragic experience of wilfulness and lawlessness at the time of the Communist dictatorship, will never forget that.
The mental element can be framed in the terms of intention, knowledge or wilfulness.
It does provide a useful balance for police action, because intention is not required, whereas wilfulness is required under the Criminal Code.
The wilfulness of Dutch theatre-makers mainly manifests itself in their drive to use everything they can get their hands on.
The problem was not merely the barbarity and wilfulness of the native Irish, but that the initial grants to the original Anglo-Norman adventurers had been too generous.
In other words, many cases of longterm unemployment arise from the structures of society or personal misfortune, rather than wilfulness or unwillingness to work.
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Since then, a host of biographers have tried to make sense of the turbulent, troubled life of a great jazz artist who seemed bent on self-destruction from drugself-destruction fromher own wilfulness.
The Veenfabriek is a place where reality is tangible and wilfulness rules.
Again, you don't have to prove the wilfulness.
This liability limitation is not valid as far as the cause of damage is based on wilfulness or culpable negligence or if a personal injury is available.
HakaGerodur undertakes to pay compensation for losses arising from the delay if HakaGerodur shall not observe this final deadline, in as far as the customer can prove to it wilfulness or gross negligence.
In this expressive colourful rebellion, it is as if Marlen was testing his artistic temperament to the limit, yet the constructiveness of his rhythmic organisation meant limitless freedom did not become wilfulness.
There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
Examples from Classical Literature
All her wilfulness and sauciness flashed in her eyes as she lifted her glance at last to his and answered.
This wilfulness was attributed to his youth, and the impatience of his amour-propre.
She was paying the penalty of her own wilfulness and her own imperiousness.
But with girlish wilfulness she had clung to it the more positively.
I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations.
The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation.
There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.
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