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Перевод: self-willed

[прилагательное]
упрямый; своевольный; самовольный

Тезаурус:

1. He would persuade her that he loved her, ask her to promise to run away with him if her father refused his consent to their marriage, and, when he finally asked her father for her hand, threaten him with the prospect of his daughter's elopement - he and Jared Tunstall both knew how self-willed his daughter was, and that any threat from her would not be idle.
2. Shirley had been the rebel, the self-willed, the unappeasing.
3. Great numbers might drift through the drama, of course - thousands in fact - but they could only ever be phantoms, agents or, on rare occasions, reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the centre.
4. Another was Susan Berkley, a bossy, self-willed creature, whose natural vigour went, as adolescence progressed, the natural way.
5. It is curious how he manages to make John Major sound about as animated and self-willed as a sack of potatoes.Ask him whether the PM takes his advice, and you get a similar impression.
6. Being "self-willed", she favours larger-than-life pictures, "which reach into the interior".
7. The child may be very obstinate and self-willed and the parents may not have learned how to manage the child's general behaviour.
8. But whatever talents she had once had, she had now turned ferociously against them, whereas her husband did still pay a curious self-willed homage to the intellectual virtues; he possessed an 1895 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which he would, from time to time, read.
9. There is a self-willed flight forward here, a certain careerist mentality, a belief in the objectives of the company, a sense of purpose and an appetite for work encoded in this trajectory which mirrors the relentless flight forward of the son a generation later.
10. The hypotheses, formed after his observations, are many; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature's more self-willed manifestations.
11. Even at that age, Constance seemed perhaps too self-willed and wild, like the countryside she roamed so freely.
12. A tiny anonymous figure is represented, in isolation against a background of vivid colours, as a self-willed individual, kneeling, crawling, sleeping or learning to see its reflection in a pool.
13. Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit.