(a.) Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn.
(a.) Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable.
(2) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
(3) Despite the fact that Wall Street and the City of London seemed to be dominated by headstrong young men with far too much money and far too little sense, the chance of a catastrophic blow-out was viewed as alarmist nonsense.
(4) In 1969, a screening of Paint Your Wagon wasn't complete without the chance to stop halfway, have a breather and ponder whether or not Lee Marvin would manage to tame Jean Seberg's headstrong ways come the second act.
(5) When the tapes went up on Channel 4's coverage, Mick Fitzgerald was a little headstrong, stumbling a little as he told Balding, "I know you did the Olympics last summer, but this is our Olympics, and we're lucky we do it every year", lesser presenters would have hesitated.
(6) Succoured by Rwanda , Nkunda nevertheless proved himself to be a headstrong and unreliable negotiating partner with the regional powers and with the government of Congo's president, Joseph Kabila, who Nkunda openly talked about toppling.
(7) Prachi was quiet, nine years old and painfully shy; Tanuja more headstrong, an independent 11-year-old.
(8) It took three auditions for her to win the part of headstrong 15-year-old Mia in Arnold's second feature, Fish Tank , but already her fierce, touching portrayal has earned her a best British performance award at this year's Edinburgh film festival, and helped win Arnold the jury prize at Cannes – the same gong she had scooped in 2006 for her debut feature, Red Road.
(9) The truth is, the current crisis results not from too much democracy but from long-standing failure to reform an oligarchic constitution which left the Group with a board unable to rein in a headstrong management.
(10) And now – surprised by his own headstrong change of direction – Stewart is giving it up to join a House of Commons whose reputation has been trashed by the expenses scandal.
(11) He was idiosyncratic, and headstrong, out of fashion, vaguely otherwordly.
(12) A busy and regular film actor, he headed the bomb-disposal squad in the Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger wartime drama The Small Back Room (1949), and in The Go-Between (1970) played the father of a headstrong young woman (Julie Christie).
(13) As a very young child, she was wilful and headstrong, constantly questioning everything.
(14) On screen, she excels at headstrong outsiders and exuding a steely single-mindedness.
(15) If only my headstrong sister Lydia had not eloped with Mr Wickham, all would be well."
(16) In Sense and Sensibility, a tale of thwarted love, a girl's headstrong feelings misguide her.
(17) On the surface this seems like a particularly nasty slice of family life made public, a bullying parent who can’t control his headstrong daughter.
(18) They tend to be more idealistic, headstrong, and social media-savvy than their elder counterparts.
Wayward
Definition:
(a.) Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
(2) Chelsea's only attacking response in the opening stages was a wayward shot from Lampard, who was to score the equaliser in the 17th minute in a manner that would have concerned Poyet, whose reaction to his team's goal had been subdued.
(3) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
(4) Since 2000, Ray Lewis has developed the persona of the wayward youth turned gospel preacher, a big reason why he has been able to end his career as a respected, at least in the game, 17-year-veteran who ended his career with a Super Bowl win with the only team he's ever played for, a team that very few people thought was good enough to get this far.
(5) Alexa arrived out of the blue with her band of wayward girls.
(6) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
(7) For the fifth goal, Tomas Rosicky played a wayward pass from the right-back position and Oscar simply took the ball and stuck a right-foot shot past the unimpressive dive of Wojciech Szczesny.
(8) I will talk to the board and the players, I’m angry about what happened.” In addition to indiscipline, Southampton were undone here by wayward finishing.
(9) A wayward attempt but QPR will be pleased to see Austin seizing the initiative and being positive.
(10) "We must sharpen the edge" of the rules to keep wayward governments in line and consider revising the 1992 treaty that laid the groundwork for the shared currency, Reuters reported Merkel as saying.
(11) Hanging there with its streamlined folds of metal, like a wayward chunk ripped from a Frank Gehry building, Slipstream is a radical departure from the artist's previous work.
(12) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(13) Borgen's Sidse Babett Knudsen stars with Chiara d'Anna (Berberian) as an amateur butterfly expert whose "wayward desires test her lover's tolerance".
(14) West Coast kicked a wayward 11.21 in last week’s win over Collingwood .
(15) Gómez’s long-range, wayward shot took a telling touch off the unwitting Graham’s heel.
(16) Mutch put them ahead in the ninth minute, after Campbell capitalised on Joe Allen's wayward pass, and although Liverpool equalised through Suárez, following a fine move involving Glen Johnson and Jordan Henderson, Cardiff were soon back in front.
(17) I’m finding it impossible not to be optimistic because it feels like we have reached a tipping point, like this shift has become unstoppable,” he says looking back on a lifetime of COPs like a parent assessing a wayward child who’s somehow turned out OK despite everything.
(18) Yet Klopp still managed to be a breath of fresh air, a ball of pent-up fury when Liverpool were wayward in the early exchanges, a beaming, tracksuited, slightly messy creator of happiness and fun when they romped away with the points thanks to late goals from Coutinho and Benteke.
(19) But the US might have expected more from Bradley – who was a curiously peripheral figure for much of the night and whose wayward passes from some of the warm-up games carried into the first World Cup match.
(20) Agbonlahor delivered the final blow, running on to a wayward pass from the substitute David Vaughan before sashaying round Mignolet and putting the ball into the net.