Word: willfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In his working notes Tolstoy made her ugly, giving her a narrow, low forehead and a nose so big that it was almost deformed. But in looks at least, Anna Karenina has been lucky. The author himself fell in love with her, performing a graceful act of plastic surgery before...
The incident colored the rest of her life. Archibald Christie, a chilly, willful man, remarried anyway. Agatha spent the next years mostly out of England, traveling in remote parts of the Middle East until she found a kinder husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. She began to create a series...
The filibuster was the latest in a long string of indignities for Carter at the hands of a newly willful Congress. Younger and better educated than ever, legislators of both chambers have been roughing up Carter's appointees and rewriting his legislative packages. Four of the nine major parts...
Her willful fancifulness intrigues and annoys, but in his self-absorption and disconnectedness, he misses the clues to her condition, therefore her motives.
Actually, physical scenery might have been all but dispensed with. So might the premise that the action is occurring in the old city of Riga in 1968. Somersaults is one of those plays (Our Town is another) for which the audience projects the essential scenery, place and time out of...