So-called "willfulness" is a will in which the volitional power has not yet been balanced with this inhibitive power. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
FCRA litigation developments, including the "willfulness" issue, to your advantage when defending cases. From Wordnik.com. [Class Action Fairness Act Blog] Reference
Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson for an expanded definition of the term "willfulness," a term included in the jury instructions. From Wordnik.com. [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference
But what's really breaking him up is W's willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Grave and Deteriorating Edition] Reference
They always roused her own none too dormant willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
The simplest form of determination is sheer willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Determination] Reference
Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Determination] Reference
Perhaps Congress will respond to this administration's willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2007] Reference
It is not anyone's willfulness but an imperious need for our people. From Wordnik.com. [ORIENTE UNIVERSITY GRADUATION CEREMONIES] Reference
Nevertheless, there was nothing either small or petty in her willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
That willfulness would be inextricably related to, but exceed mere error. From Wordnik.com. [Scary Federal Judiciary] Reference
As for her intelligence, her willfulness, and even worse, her independence. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
Under such a stimulus the last vestige of Zillah's old willfulness died out. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The requirements for perjury, false statements and that type is willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2005] Reference
She did not see any willfulness and she did not see any material misstatements. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2000] Reference
For example, willfulness clearly has two subcomponents, stubbornness and energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Determination] Reference
In the recovery movement, they talk of willingness to change, rather than willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Eileen Flanagan: How Religion Changes Lives] Reference
And yet today, in this tale of Kosovo, the willfulness in Muslim lands is easy to see. From Wordnik.com. [On Kosovo's Fields] Reference
And rightly am I served, for of my willfulness and stubbornness comes this unhappy war. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference
And then came the lecture about her willfulness and her propensity for getting in trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Something Wild]
There's also a fundamental willfulness that underlies Justice Stevens's seeming restraint. From Wordnik.com. [A Supreme Revelation] Reference
Creb stared hard at the woman, quickly grasping the full implications of Ayla's willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan of the Cave Bear]
Democrats need to make clear the historic proportions of George Bush's arrogance and willfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Andrei Cherny: The Republic Stands! The Constitution Survives!] Reference
Beauty that edged to arrogance, strength that fed willfulness, confidence that was also contempt. From Wordnik.com. [A Shadow in Summer] Reference
If willfulness and discipline are what get you to your destination, ambition is how you choose it. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Determination] Reference
He faults the Iraqis for their “willfulness” — a word he uses repeatedly — and their ingratitude. From Wordnik.com. [And Now for the Bad News: The Word on the War in Iraq] Reference
French Commonwealth and were betrayed by the weakness of Paris and the willfulness of the colonial armies. From Wordnik.com. [A Time to Break Silence (Declaration Against the War in Vietnam)] Reference
To pray that we can all be purged of the temptation to pretend that our willfulness is somehow equal to God's will. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At National Prayer Breakfast] Reference
Rickety writing ( "the conversations were unsaid") and treacle aside, her vivacity, verve and willfulness are compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora] Reference
I lamented my own folly and willfulness in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5] Reference
And Blagojevich attorney Sam Adams, Sr. says the defense will also show a lack of willfulness on the part of the former governor. From Wordnik.com. [Blagojevich May Testify At Trial] Reference
To be sure, there was a measure of willfulness in this national vision, for politics and wars guided the destiny of this republic. From Wordnik.com. [Obama and the Politics of Crowds] Reference
MAZZARIELLO: But Nancy, they have to prove willfulness here, that he knew, that he intentionally participated in this conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2007] Reference
"And now, thanks to the First's meddling, the Mirari's power, and your willfulness, I have to do something I don't want to do.". From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
Pride -- Most people don't use the word pride in the way scholars and theologians once did to refer to human willfulness and arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Wages of Fear] Reference
So she didn ` t put her heart where it should be, which is with her children, but more with just what her willfulness is and her own needs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2007] Reference
At times, in my willfulness, I may have closed my heart to the possibility of a healing word: Today - and tomorrow -- let my heart be open. From Wordnik.com. [Lea Lane: Peaceful Words For Times Of Conflict] Reference
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