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self-willed
1. many problems in the Lord’s church because of brethren who were self-willed, that is,
2. This self-willed attitude can result in brethren viewing the ideas of others as threatening, personal
3. Yes, they probably thought she was childish, arrogant, self-willed
4. 1 On account of the sudden and repeated calamities and mischances brethren that have come on us we suppose that we have the more slowly given heed to the things that are disputed among you beloved and to the foul and unholy sedition alien and foreign to the elect of God which a few headstrong and self-willed persons have kindled to such a degree of madness that your venerable and famous name worthy to be loved of all men is greatly blasphemed
5. So I did, but I didn't do it again – we’d be living far too close for that sort of relationship; and anyway, I preferred to be friends with this intelligent and self-willed adult in a youth’s body
6. From the haste with which the parents hustled us out the door I gathered they were as determinedly pleased to be shot of their self-willed youngest son as Alwyn was to keep him!
7. Ruthless and self-willed, he had increasing recourse to terror, showing no hesitation in eliminating men whom he had ceased to trust, either with or without the pretense of a fair trial
8. Mothers ought never to despair of self-willed, headstrong daughters
9. But what bowled me in the end are these from the Bhakti Yoga - Scores thought over mere rotting / Betters meditation awareness too / What helps man to find moorings / Are acts his with no axe to grind; Kind-hearted ’n considerate / Friendly natured, forgiving too / Lays no store on highs and lows / Suffers no pride ’n possessive not; Who's patient ’n cheerful / Self-willed as well persevering / Who's hearty ever at work / Makes he devout My beloved; Who’s simple, never in want / Covets he not in vantage post / Shakes him none, he keeps his nerve / It’s such who Me please the most; He’s My darling who craves not / Yet won’t shun the pleasures of life / Takes but things all as they come; Treats he equal friends ’n foes / Scorn or honour minds he not / Keeps he cool in grief and joy / Nurses for none soft centre, and above all, Pats ’n slights all in the score / Treats as equal score My man / Takes he lot of his in stride/ But won’t put the blame on Me
10. It frees me from making any decisions, choices, all of the self-willed options that bind others to lives full of stress, worry and difficulty
11. Our natural grounding, our original concrete understanding of right and wrong, is our cultural value anchor which arises from the societal institutions that are present during the formation of our self-willed beliefs
12. she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate
13. Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new
14. and especially such a self-willed man as Captain Butler, a girl would be a blow, a Melanie knew that to a woman a child of either sex was equally welcome but to a man, reflection upon his manhood
15. Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—
16. Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from Mr
17. ' The porter looked at her and said, ' And what do you want to go to that flat for ? ' He said that so strangely that it might have made one suspicious, but she was so self-willed, poor darling, so impatient, she could not bear impertinent questions
18. “You know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, we're fanciful, we're self-willed, but proudest of the proud in our little heart
19. You are too self-willed
20. Even from such a self-willed and contemptuously proud girl as she was, such an extremely frank avowal, such sacrifice, such self-immolation, seemed incredible
21. The girl is self-willed and fantastic, and insane! She’s wicked, wicked! I’ll repeat it for a thousand years that she’s wicked; they all are, just now, all my daughters, even that ‘wet hen’ Alexandra
22. “I tell you, my dear fellow, Aglaya is such an extraordinary, such a self-willed, fantastical little creature, you wouldn’t believe it! Every high quality, every brilliant trait of heart and mind, are to be found in her, and, with it all, so much caprice and mockery, such wild fancies—indeed, a little devil! She has just been laughing at her mother to her very face, and at her sisters, and at Prince S
23. Yet all the while, in the depths of his soul, he felt the cruelty, cowardice and baseness, not only of this particular action of his but of his whole self-willed, depraved, cruel, idle life; and that dreadful veil which had in some unaccountable manner hidden from him this sin of his and the whole of his subsequent life was beginning to shake, and he caught glimpses of what was covered by that veil