waywardness

At the slightest indication of 'waywardness', one of those nagging mothers wil begin applying constant verbal nit-picking and 'withholding love' and judgmental pressure.

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I think I have a much higher tolerance than Hollinghurst for this kind of waywardness in point-of-view.

A great essay by Alan Hollinghurst Jenny Davidson 2005

I think I have a much higher tolerance than Hollinghurst for this kind of waywardness in point-of-view.

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Poverty, lack of care and training during adolescence, overcrowded housing conditions which accompany large families are universally recognized causes of "waywardness" in girls.

Woman and the New Race Margaret Sanger 1924

There is an inevitable loss of that fine waywardness which is sometimes the result of untrained effort, but there is the general gain of order, and the full production which results of art.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

There is an inevitable loss of that fine waywardness which is sometimes the result of untrained effort, but there is the general gain of order, and the full production which results of art.

Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

There is an inevitable loss of that fine waywardness which is sometimes the result of untrained effort, but there is the general gain of order, and the full production which results of art.

Fielding 1843

There is an inevitable loss of that fine waywardness which is sometimes the result of untrained effort, but there is the general gain of order, and the full production which results of art.

Fielding 1843

There was a turn of Savage about Tom though without his blackguardism -- a kind of waywardness of mind and irritability that must have made a man of his genius truly unhappy.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

Acts 2, while in the context of his "proclaiming repentance," notice that he clearly reminds his audience of their "waywardness"; and after using the Law to convict them Peter then shares the

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