Willful in sentence

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It was willful blindness.

Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.

There's a lot of willful blindness around these days.

You can see willful blindness in banks, when thousands of people sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.

You can see willful blindness in the Catholic Church, where decades of child abuse went ignored.

You could see willful blindness in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Willful blindness exists on epic scales like those, and it also exists on very small scales, in people's families, in people's homes and communities, and particularly in organizations and institutions.

Companies that have been studied for willful blindness can be asked questions like, "Are there issues at work that people are afraid to raise?"

So much of this ignorance, this civic illiteracy, is willful.

Well, this problem, this challenge, is a thing that we must now confront, and I believe that when you have this kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance, it becomes both a cause and a consequence of this concentration of opportunity of wealth and clout that I was describing a moment ago, this profound civic inequality.

And they're vulnerable to misuse, willful or otherwise.

So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing.

Sometimes, these oversights occur because of willful blindness– such as when Ophelia’s father dismisses Hamlet’s alarming actions as mere lovesickness.

Ok, it seems a very formal, willful gesture, but something derived entirely out of the constraints.

But with that thought, also came a stronger, a more willful voice from deep within.

In it, she channels Ruth Gordon (because the play is the thing), is feminine, charming, willful and self-effacing, generous, protective and combative but never pretentious.

Then seventeen year old Court Foster (Jason London), the son of her mother's close friend (Gail Strickland) moves in next door, Dani experiences her first crush, while Court enjoys her company, and willful spirit.

The movie requires the audience to have a somewhat willful suspension of reality as there are some slightly mystic themes interwoven in the storyline.

Trueman does an able job creating a woman who is selfish, willful, and downright bad.

Scrappy and willful tomboy Peppermint Patty invites herself and several of her friends over for a Thanksgiving feast at Charlie Brown's house.

The United States have a strange but understandable reaction in front of the rest of the world because they are all the descendants of immigrants who left a culture and a history behind them to build out of conscious and willful choices a new history and a new culture, a heritage that became something that had to be built out of nothing or very little.

This part is played by the radiantly crazy Vera Farmiga who rolls over Nick Stahl's staid NPR persona with willful glee.

Throughout the comic book series, Dr. Strange gave a much stronger impression of willful mastery of magic, yet here he is rather the reluctant hero, which was never present in the original.

Rugged, hard-working farmer Ben Faber (forcefully essayed by dour, husky, pudgy-faced "2001: A Space Odysey" star Gary Lockwood) resides on one such area with his gutsy wife Lucy (lovely Camilla Spav), willful teenage daughter Rachel (comely brunette knockout Zoli Marki), adoring son, and feisty old buddy Uncle Luke.

From a Western perspective, willful confrontation makes little sense, because the EU and Russia are and will continue to be neighbors.

Though Japan today bears no resemblance to the militarist regime of World War II, its willful historical amnesia continues to fuel resentment elsewhere in Asia, particularly China and Korea.

Reinhart and Rogoff have strongly contested accusations by many commentators that they were willing, if not willful, participants in a game of political deception.

The Greening of BushThe United States is usually regarded as an environmental laggard, with President George W. Bush perceived as being little better than the head of a gang of willful polluters who do everything they can to obstruct global action to protect the environment.

The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a willful cause of recent conflict.

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