Sentences with phrase «wilfulness of»

Here, by way of example, is an explanation of Helen Marten's work: «Whilst their complex references might not be made immediately explicit to the viewer there is something alchemic in the way the materials collide, and ideas are often communicated through the obstinate wilfulness of the finished form.

Yet I can not recall a phase in modern British politics where the will of the two main leaders is so weakened by circumstance or the greater wilfulness of their parties.

Not exact matches

The problem is not one of wilfulness on the part of the scholars concerned; it is simply that any historian tends to see the past in terms which are most real to him personally, perhaps, indeed, in some sense it is impossible to see the past at all except when it can be seen in such terms.

Fortunately for all of us, God can still get through the clouds of our ignorance and wilfulness, and if we sincerely search for truth and goodness then we will find what we are looking for.

This is the time to embrace frivolity, gaiety, excitement, irrationality, whimsy, wilfulness — and all in the form of a frill!

At its best moments (and there are a couple of great ones in here), The Puffy Chair makes you want to shake some sense into the kids struggling mortally with what appears small - time in the rear - view — but then there's the realization that poetry is woven from these threads of wilfulness and the courage of being naïve in love.

Some were let out back into the wild where they bred with their ancestors, perhaps breeding back in some of their characteristic wilfulness.

The dust works are thus extremely vulnerable «paintings», at the mercy of the exhibition - goers, their physical control and wilfulness.

«Instead of carefully reviewing the evidence in the case in order to determine whether or not the Crown had, in fact, established that the appellant possessed the specific intent of wilfulness required by s. 173 (1) of the Criminal Code, the trial judge erroneously convicted the appellant based upon a perceived (but non-existent) legal presumption that the necessary wilfulness was established by the fact that his acts of masturbation were in fact witnessed by another,» he wrote.

The duty of care to a trespasser is that the property owner, «would not be liable for anything but affirmative acts amounting to wilfulness.»