Its lyrics are repetitious, its sound wilfully dated, its messages straightforward. |
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Still, much as one enjoys the giddiness as reality and fiction seep into each other, there is still something wilfully costive about it. |
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At the end of Henry IV, in a re-enactment of Hamlet's murder of Polonius, Henry wilfully thrusts his sword into Belcredi. |
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The Act also covers persons who knowingly or wilfully destroy, deface or conceal from the Revenue any documents. |
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The government had in fact wilfully stood in the way of families reuniting, and had aggressively prevented parents reuniting with their children. |
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You don't accept the possibility that a government may one day wilfully misuse this information. |
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His astonishing debut feature is one of the most wilfully obscure pieces of genre-busting cinema in a very long time. |
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The Miami Herald columnist has produced a series of hysterical and wilfully absurd novels. |
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She's the 19-year-old author of a wilfully eccentric, impossible to categorise debut album. |
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He had wilfully ignored notices posted on the train arguing that the by-laws were invalid. |
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Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour. |
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I find it hard to understand that any seafarer could be so wilfully destructive and do such damage. |
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It wilfully ignores the real differences between the needs of the disabled and the needs of the able-bodied. |
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As if to counter the accusations of snootiness, not every selection is wilfully obscure. |
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You save more lives that way, even if the wilfully ignorant of the chattering classes get into a lather because of it. |
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The great tautologists, creation scientists, persist in wilfully confusing fact with theory. |
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But in the flesh, trim and handsome, she seems wilfully unshowy and, well, frightfully nice. |
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If my child or yours is wilfully untidy, lazy or disruptive, there is often a genuine case for saying that it is not really his fault. |
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He has been criticised for being wilfully vague about those policy plans during the campaign. |
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Worse again, he put together arrangements for his music which were obtuse and wilfully difficult. |
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Although grace superabounds where sin abounds, that is no reason why we should wilfully pile up the sin. |
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It won't change the minds of the incorrigibly and wilfully stupid, but I did find it amusing. |
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They are wilfully ignoring the vital creative role of the public domain in reinvigorating our common culture. |
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It is at once stuckist and experimental, wilfully anti-commercial, not easily assimilable by advertisers and lifestyle marketers. |
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Instead, States are often wilfully blind to the use of trafficked labour in the production of many consumer goods sold in their domestic markets. |
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Rogue corporations that wilfully break the law will have their charters revoked, their assets sold and the money funnelled into superfunds for their victims. |
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The defendant here had, in the judge's view, blatantly and wilfully defied the law. |
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Who could miss this, other than either the wilfully blind or the patently disengenuous? |
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Agra has wilfully chosen to insult farmers' concerns in their aim to expand corporate agribusiness into Africa. |
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He does not openly support jihadism, of course, but does attack its critics and rationalise or wilfully overlook some of its excesses. |
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As long as he does nothing wilfully provocative, he has considerable freedom to redefine his personal position on matters of faith and conscience. |
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The Commission very much regrets that a number of its officials and trainees have been wilfully misquoted and misrepresented by this article. |
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The recent outbreak of mass criminality can have surprised only the wilfully blind. |
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Any humour in the retreat was abruptly shattered by the loud smash of a plate glass window by an excitable ram who was wilfully battering his head into it. |
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I feel kind of indignant, like my laptop is wilfully ignoring me. |
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But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would wilfully seize power. |
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He was a crucial figure in bringing new repertoire to a theatre which had almost wilfully avoided truly significant premieres in the previous four decades of its existence. |
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On some occasions the guest lists have appeared wilfully eclectic. |
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But the eccentricity of his performances, some of which seem wilfully perverse, with their mannered phrasing and exaggeratedly slow or fast tempos, was less easy to take. |
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This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography. |
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The dental hygienist simply assumed that the client was wilfully choosing to give the treatment a low priority. |
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The ending was wilfully and unsatisfactorily unresolved but the pace and grip of this theatrical thriller made for a memorable evening. |
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I am satisfied to the criminal standard of proof that the wife wilfully breached the orders in question and I find her to be in contempt of those orders. |
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At some point, however, enough people came round to Lee's wilfully smart, relentlessly provocative routines. |
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This wilfully artless trash-wallow is like an oily saveloy: one's enjoyment may vary according to dietary preferences and state of intoxication. |
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This makes it a criminal offence to wilfully obstruct free passage along a highway, without lawful authority or excuse. |
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They were wilfully blind for a year, and the Prime Minister is responsible. |
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In view of these facts, it appears that the advisor might have been wilfully blind in not pursuing the matter further. |
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Within the context of this film, which wilfully denies many of the conventional pleasures of cinema spectatorship, such moments are genuinely transcendent. |
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Why then, after it had been segregated to emphasize its inferior status, did men wilfully cross the alps and seek out this remote spot for their clandestine purposes? |
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It's the freemasonry of food, a wilfully complicated Sealed Knot ballet of side plates, fish forks and devices to remove antennae from langoustine. |
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If a batsman wilfully obstructs the opposition by word or action or strikes the ball with a hand not holding the bat, he is out. |
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Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee, That wilfully will nother here nor see. |
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It is not a question of wilfully wearing rose-tinted glasses or attempting to sweep under the carpet ongoing structural issues that challenge the long-term viability of the domestic league. |
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As discussed above, depending on the egregiousness of the conduct, they might also be subject to criminal prosecution for criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death, or for wilfully contravening an Act of Parliament. |
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If his possibilities of having physical pleasure are reduced, or if he hinders somebody else's pleasure, a man no longer has a reason to exist, and must be eliminated, by himself or by someone else, wilfully or otherwise. |
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This study also summarized current civil sanctions that Canada's provinces use to put in jail those who wilfully default on their child support obligations. |
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All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities. |
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Her defenders say she was making sensible points about clever new anti-submarine drone capability, that she was wilfully misinterpreted and discourteously treated. |
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The two most frequently charged offences are those of wilfully causing unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to an animal and causing pain, suffering or injury by neglect. |
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They occur when States wilfully transfer arms to terrorists or when States turn a blind eye to such transfers taking place on their own territory. |
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The style and mode of the SNP's argumentation has become correspondingly vague, simplifying, and wilfully obfuscatory. |
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Under this law, it is an offence for anyone who has responsibility for a child to wilfully assault, ill-treat, neglect, abandon or expose the child in a manner that would cause him unnecessary harm. |
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This is a private member's bill that is not a votable item, but would make it an offence under the criminal code to wilfully desecrate the Canadian flag. |
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The purpose of the bill is to make it illegal for anyone to wilfully desecrate the Canadian flag, which I believe is cherished by everybody in the country. |
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Whosoever should wilfully contravene or fail to comply with the present Law shall see his barrels of beer forthwith confiscated by the local legal authority as often as necessary. |
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In this regard, it was claimed that one employee wilfully disobeyed this instruction over a period of time between January and March 2001 and it was the action of this person which led to the breach of the undertaking. |
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The CUSTOMER shall refrain from requiring information in the knowledge that it shall be used by third parts and from wilfully or negligently allowing third parties to make such requests. |
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Further claims, in particular for damages in relation to damage not caused to the goods themselves, such as lost production, are excluded in so far as we have not acted wilfully or negligently. |
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There is a categorical difference between free speech and speech which wilfully and maliciously ignores recognized historical facts in order to advance an ulterior agenda. |
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When one looks at that commitment and sees the extent to which projects we have started and others in which we have invested money have been destroyed, wilfully and purposefully, it is enough to make one literally weep. |
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Some of the newspapers have wilfully misrepresented what happened and created an impression of someone who responded disproportionately to something she should just ignore – that isn't what happened. |
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The Ward unfolds in a 1960s mental institution and commits the cardinal sin of wilfully cheating the audience for the sake of a final reel twist. |
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In recent years, the world has watched in disbelief as the Canadian government has wilfully ignored reports of torture in Afghanistan, then tried to cover them up. |
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The Court held that it was material in deciding whether it had jurisdiction to hear the appeal, that the father had left without wilfully violating an order of the District Court. |
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They are hard to dismiss by any but the wilfully dim-sighted. |
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It is often difficult, if not impossible, to determine what actual financial harm has been done when one individual wilfully defames, slanders or libels another citizen. |
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When the member says that all of the bills had gone through the House and were sitting in the Senate, he is being wilfully incompetent or he is being sheerly incompetent by not giving the actual dates. |
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Any person who wilfully or through gross negligence publicly utters a discriminatory or hateful expression shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. |
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Madam Speaker, I do not think our colleagues opposite have wilfully foisted the recession upon us, nor do I think that they think that putting people in jail is the economic fix that we need for the country. |
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It includes Malthusian sums, for example for agriculture: indeed, market expenditure is going to be wilfully reduced by more than EUR 500 million. |
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The public would be appalled to think that the government is wilfully ignoring evidence that this dam would destroy critical habitat for jaguars, tapirs and numerous tropical birds in Central America. |
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Is the government simply incompetent or is it wilfully incompetent? |
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Such actions, wilfully perpetrated, constitute war crimes. |
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Moreover, although he testified to having no knowledge that the vehicle and parts stored in his garage were stolen, the objective evidence suggests that he was, at a minimum, wilfully blind in this respect. |
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The Legion believes that many of the 14,000 veterans who were not properly discharged from the military after the war did not wilfully go absent but were the victims of arbitrary and cumbersome processing procedures. |
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The adoption of Bill C-38 would create two categories of children: those who are assured of the right to be brought up by their two biological parents, and those who wilfully deprived of this right. |
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In a high-profile case in 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada weighed James Keegstra's rights to free speech against the offence of wilfully promoting hatred under the Criminal Code. |
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Fear thou a worse prison, if thou wilt needs wilfully live and die in a just indebtment, when thou mayest be at once free and honest. |
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He wilfully invokes a subtext of incest, perhaps because he is speaking to Quentin or perhaps in the spirit of a wearily unshockable cynicism. |
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It is hard to imagine actions more damaging to the cause of preserving the nation's heritage, than wilfully forging documents designed to alter our historical record. |
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The CDC had described Vinson as having wilfully disregarded and violated protocols when she boarded a public commercial airline while self-monitoring her Ebola symptoms. |
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In its factum before the Court of Appeal, the Crown said the accused either acted irresponsibly or was wilfully ignoring the consequences of his acts. |
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She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard. |
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