self-will

How To Use self-will In A Sentence

• His death had been a kind of summons; out of his self-willed existence into the service of Cesaria Yaos. GALILEE
• As a result of this self-willed discipline, I had to often trade off drama for realism, like in "Maalishwalla," where I (initially) had a dramatic cinematographic ending and then changed it to one of actual pathos. Anis Shivani: 'Breathless In Bombay' Author Murzban Shroff Reflects On The Real Mumbai: Exclusive Interview
• The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon. The Art of Letters
• The self-willed semicoma she fell into at the start of her shift—which lasted through every shopping item she swiped and every receipt she tore out of the till—suddenly left her and she’d felt strangely alive. The Redleys
• He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
• It was against self-will and worldly desires that he set his face; and these could only be overcome by personal conversion.
• A future collective mind cannot arise without including, and enhancing, the uniqueness of self-willed humans. World Wide Mind
• She had a little core of self-will.
• He was strong, full of self-will, full of the need to succeed, to be different from and better than his peers. The Children of Lovers by Judy Golding – review
• This fits the notion that females are socialized to be dependent and obedient, while males are socialized to be independent and self-willed.