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Example sentences for "will power"

  • However, by a superb display of will power, she quickly regained control of herself, and becoming cheerful once more, bade me recline upon one of the lounges while she pressed the spring which set the musical apparatus in motion.

  • Will power," exclaimed I, "my dear sweet girl, that is all I have left.

  • This time the pain seemed even greater to bear than before, but, summoning all my will power, I managed to take the brutal treatment in silence, and said no more.

  • Somehow, will power with a layer of fat on it gets feeble.

  • An excellent motto for one of pure motives is: Through my will power I dare do what I want to.

  • I want you to realize that no one has a monopoly on will power.

  • The man with grit and will, may be poor today and wealthy in a few years; will power is a better asset than money; Will will carry you over chasms of failure, if you but give it the chance.

  • What we speak of as will power is but the gathering together of mental energy, the concentration power at one point.

  • Ah, the tell tale crimson that will betray Marguerite in spite of all her grand theories of will power!

  • Marguerite fortunately was endowed with much will power.

  • What is the use of procreating healthy and robust children if they are vain, egoistic, impulsive, crafty, wanting in will power, or perhaps criminal?

  • Well, a few exceptionally cold natures may have will power enough to carry into effect such a pact.

  • Hypnotism and suggestion in the waking state are one and the same thing; but what the physicians I have mentioned understand by suggestion in the waking state--psychotherapy, action by will power, etc.

  • Such a manifestation of will power is, of course, exceptional to a degree, and yet it illustrates what men can do in the face of conditions that are usually supposed {115} to be overwhelming.

  • The reason is obvious: there is literal lack of will power or at least unwillingness to face the new conditions of life, and vitality is spent in vain regret for the companionship that has been {108} lost.

  • It is just as absurd to say that the will can bring about the cure of Bright's disease as it is to suggest that one can by will power replace a finger that has been lost.

  • According to Kelson it is entirely a question of will power.

  • He climbed on to a stool which he had taken there for the purpose, and when he fancied he had acquired the right amount of concentration, he sprang into the air, arriving, presumably through want of will power, on the floor.

  • It was a case of abulia, the loss of will power of an invalid, who makes projects of active life, and no sooner attempts to carry them out, than he loses his strength again, and postpones them indefinitely.

  • Dame Fortune was beginning to laugh at him for his lack of will power.

  • Unfortunately there are certain things that keep me here and shatter my will power.

  • It was not enthusiasm, nor was it will power.


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