(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.
Willful
Definition:
(a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.
(a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(2) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(3) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
(4) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(5) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
(6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(7) He also said that at least under the Labour government Gordon Brown had been willing to meet the Argentinians.
(8) Only 4% are willing to face the other option – paying for content with no ads.
(9) In some respects, the impasse is a vindication of the UK electorate’s decision to leave the EU and pursue its own agreements.” He said when the UK government was free to make its own trade deals after leaving the EU, it should target willing partners such as emerging markets.
(10) "We are uncertain of the structure, deliverability and conditionality of what is proposed by Moelis, but we are willing to engage with them to investigate further.
(11) The bill hands £80bn to new GP commissioning boards and will allow any willing provider to compete to provide services.
(12) One of the reasons consumers are willing to take these cases on through the small claims process is because they are not exposed to the other side's costs."
(13) The Fe-protein and the MoFe-protein of the Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase complex can be chemically cross-linked by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (Willing, A., Georgiadis, M.M., Rees, D. C., and Howard, J.
(14) During his visit to Europe he did not speak at length on the subject of the shooting, but seemed more willing than Giuliani to distance the Dallas tragedy from the Black Lives Matter movement.
(15) "Only a minority of doctors would be willing to participate in such acts," the authors clear-thinkingly object.
(16) But it is unlikely that we are any more willing to tolerate the negative fallout from regulation today than we were in the 1970s, and therefore we predict that the proportion of GNP going to health care will continue to grow throughout the remainder of this century.
(17) Before the vote was announced, Dimon told shareholders the bank was willing to "pay attention to what we've heard."
(18) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(19) That is likely to happen under plans by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , to let "any willing provider" – part of the health service, a private healthcare provider or a charity – be paid out of NHS funds to treat NHS patients.
(20) Christina Wille, director, Insecurity Insight , Bellevue, Switzerland Demand data from those you fund : Gender sensitive donors in humanitarian aid should ask those they fund for better reporting on sex segregated violence.