Projecting enthusiasm and flirting shamelessly with the audience, she leads the performance with gusto, exerting a comical degree of bossiness, and occasional wilfulness, over the long-suffering Dr . Hinge.
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The committee had never enquired into the wilfulness of the first applicant's conduct and, on the information before it, could not have concluded that she had deliberately disobeyed a rule or order or resolution which was to her knowledge binding upon her.
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In the article " Mao Zedong and the Famine of 1959 1960 : A Study in Wilfulness ", published in 2006 in " The China Quarterly ", Professor Thomas P . Bernstein also discussed Mao's change of attitudes during different phases of the Great Leap Forward:
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Despite Ruskin's defence of his work as being ultimately " an entire transcript of the whole system of nature ", Turner ( who by 1845 had become the eldest Academician and deputy president of the Royal Academy ) had come to be seen by younger artists to embody bombast and wilfulness, and to be a product of an earlier, Romantic period out of touch with the modern age.
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Richard Wagner was to praise Gluck's innovations in his 1850 essay " Opera and Drama " : " The musical composer revolted against the wilfulness of the singer "; rather than " unfold [ ing ] the purely sensuous contents of the Aria to their highest, rankest, pitch ", Gluck sought " to put shackles on Caprice's execution of that Aria, by himself endeavouring to give the tune [ . . . ] an expression answering to the underlying Word-text ".
