Example Sentences

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Abdouni is invested in chronicling not only the queer scene’s existence, but also its increasing wilfulness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2019

Male nonsense, he told himself, but the pressure at his back was always a godly thing, as joyous as when he had first known its wilfulness in small aircraft over the Chicago Wastes.

From Nature • Apr. 16, 2019

In both cases, the delay resulted not from indecision or wilfulness on the part of the dramatist, but because the plays were born out of improvisations with the cast.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2013

That level is attained in the loss of wilfulness, of desire, of personality.

From Time Magazine Archive

Judith!" said she, almost in despair, "I know not whither your wilfulness will carry you.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William