Word: willfullness
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Sometimes Phillips is almost willful in her virtuosity, and sometimes she is borne along too easily on waves of rhythmic prose. Nevertheless, her range is considerably greater than is common among her despair-addicted contemporaries, as is her fugitive grace. Where Ann Beattie's characters, for instance, are habitually on...
The Watergate scandal escalated only because of Nixon's cover-up. His demise was the result, not of an "error" by his henchmen, but of his willful deceit, his lying to the American people.
It has happened before. Strong directors -- like John Boorman with The Emerald Forest and Roland Joffe with The Mission -- are drawn to shoot stories of strong men in death-defying jungle locations. They end up tracking their willful protagonists to death or madness, and the audience rarely follows. With all...
Harry Blackmun's passionate dissent (joined by William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens) asserted that "only the most willful - blindness could obscure" the connection between sexuality and the right to privacy. "No matter how uncomfortable a certain group may make the majority of this court," wrote Blackmun, that...
The revised law, which is backed by the Administration, would end federal controls on the sale and transport of rifles and shotguns and would simplify record-keeping requirements for gun dealers, allowing them to transfer - firearms to "private collections" and sell them unrecorded. Dealers would also be protected from federal...