I think I have a much higher tolerance than Hollinghurst for this kind of waywardness in point-of-view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

At the slightest indication of 'waywardness', one of those nagging mothers wil begin applying constant verbal nit-picking and 'withholding love' and judgmental pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Plea For Funds Nets Over $1 Million -- In One Day] Reference

Such waywardness is fairly standard for the profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man On a Mission] Reference

They chide not the waywardness of young men as they ought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

But here he was taking care of her, in spite of her waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Wild]

Poor erratic Angelica, with all her waywardness, "but yet a woman!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

"A rare booty!" he cried, -- "the Gods repent of their waywardness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference

His obstinacy and waywardness are, in every respect, out of the common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

All were young, and most of them haughty and full of feminine waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference

But such waywardness is a thrilling gob in the eye to bland commercialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference

Elijah, upset by the waywardness of his people, seeking guidance from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Leadership for the 21st Century: Doing What's Right and Smart for America's Future] Reference

He stopped, and then he remembered Mae's past doings, her recklessness, her waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mae Madden] Reference

No doubt it hurt him terribly, but it generally was an effective check to his waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

Letheby, when he came complaining of the waywardness of this imaginative and fickle people.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Their communion with one another was now no longer marred by youthful waywardness and caprice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference

Carlyle's exaggeration and waywardness of diction we find that note ring clear again and again.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Giving her braid a sharp pull for the waywardness of her own mind, she left the dress as it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

The U.N. in particular, Mr. Bolton makes clear, was a place for Third World ax-grinding and waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blunt Diplomacy] Reference

It made him feel that he had borne with her waywardness long enough now: it was time to put a stop to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

Constant in her affections, she never lost a friend through waywardness, or alienated any by indifference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference

Yet did not this waywardness tire the patient benevolence of the missionaries; but, like children of their.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference

He was a rough man who loved his cups, and died, as you might say, a young man through his own waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Ranney] Reference

The union was in fact hindered by the waywardness and the absurd pretences of Chatham, and the want of force in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

You have to take the thing pure and in itself, while allowing for the flaws and waywardness of its practitioners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hear, Hear] Reference

My friends did not choose to stop me, for they thought the charms of foreign travel might win me from my waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Sweetly it vibrated, her waywardness sunk in its swelling rhythm; its melody freighted with the treasure of her trust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

The Duchess might be as wayward as she pleased, but it did not follow that she would excuse waywardness in another woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

We know what restlessness, and guilt, and passion are, and deceitfulness, and pride, and waywardness -- all these we know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

The nuptials were settled, but here again Lincoln displayed a waywardness utterly out of keeping with his subsequent actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

Her way with the words, and her waywardness in working a crowd, are genuine innovations to a rock role long gone limp with cliches.    From Wordnik.com.  [S.X. Rosenstock: The Live Force of The Dead Weather] Reference

"I tell her John Manners has forsaken her, but she will persist in her waywardness, and I expect, forsooth, she will do so until --".    From Wordnik.com.  [Heiress of Haddon] Reference

No relative of the departed one may be absent for that would leave him still exposed to the strange waywardness of the envious dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

Even in his childhood this brother had displayed a waywardness of disposition which gave the promise of much evil in his future years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

The rest of Mr. Jacobs's book is an absorbing, if serendipitous, history of how mankind has dealt with the fact of its own waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise Lost, Again and Again] Reference

Dogs master the tasks of their education by their earnest endeavor to please their master; Jacko excels them in spite of his waywardness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

Again, it is necessary to remember the waywardness of girls 'minds, and that it is conviction, not submission of views that we must aim at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education of Catholic Girls] Reference