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self-willed

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ADJECTIVE
  1. habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

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  • 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 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.
  • A future collective mind cannot arise without including, and enhancing, the uniqueness of self-willed humans. World Wide Mind
  • This fits the notion that females are socialized to be dependent and obedient, while males are socialized to be independent and self-willed.
  • But if we found wickedness in it -- vice, as we rightly call it -- if it became restive, that is, rebellious and self-willed, then we should punish it indeed. The Good News of God
  • Then Mach understood: this was a self-willed machine masquer - ading as a mindless one. Robot Adept
  • The man corresponding to this would also have love of victory, and would be self-willed and unmusical.
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