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willpower

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also will power , 1847, from will (n.) + power (n.).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
willpower (stylized as #willpower ) is the fourth studio album by American recording artist and record producer, will.i.am . It was released on April 19, 2013. The album was originally titled Black Einstein and scheduled for release at the end of 2011. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ It takes a lot of willpower to give up smoking. ▪ Losing weight is largely a matter of willpower . ▪ She made herself get better by sheer willpower , when everyone else had given up hope. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After that, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior [syn: self-control , self-possession , possession , self-command , self-will ]

Usage examples of willpower.

About the willpower the men needed to get through the relentless discomfort and physical pain day after day after day after day, with only four blessed hours of sleep the whole week long.

The two tanks spit billows of exhaust, their squalling engines pushed and pulled but without decision, they were fused as much by force as willpower.

I desperately tried to concentrate enough to reach inside and touch the Wolf spirit in me to boost my reflexes and give me more strength, but the burning pain in my chest and the lightning stabbing through me with each breath denied me the willpower to reach the Old One.

Through sheer willpower and mental discipline, I managed to ignore the surly human and inconsiderate android drivers who clogged the road like horny adolescents, all trying to access the same X-rated Web server at the same time.

Summoning asmuch strength as he could, he tried to crush Malar's wrist by sheer willpower.

No access to multiplicity, no willpower, to be limited to purely spacelike resources, at the mercy of predatory borganisms and metareligions – it's no picnic out there!

She had attacked the machines with characteristic willpower, and between near-daily aerobic exercise and weight training, a sensible diet and breastfeeding, she had slimmed down in a remarkably short time.

His hand was on the other's shoulder, his saber-hand, and he used willpower to prevent it dosing like a mechanical clamp through the Admiral's deltoid muscle.

Erragon, too, was taut as if, by exerting sufficient willpower, he could shift the plum­meting fireball south and east.

It took all her willpower to keep from simply letting herself hang in the grip of the two Zazesspurian city policemen who stood flanking her.

Hall's face was a mask etched from stone, her presence an eye of calm as she forced her bridge crew to hold together by sheer willpower, yet he saw the pain—.

The circumstances you’re in, the nature of the crisis, the strength of your resolve around a particular purpose or vision, the level of your physical, mental, and emotional fatigue, and the amount of sheer willpower you have all affect the level of proactivity you bring to a potentially synergistic experience.

She had taken a bit of this, a bit of that, and a heavy dose of willpower to create protections that were effective in their way, but with all the grace of a pig in a parlor, and all the symmetry of that poor bloke they called "The Elephant Man.

It took all of Ren's presence of mind and willpower to ignore the pain and jump quickly back to his feet, but before he could get free, a gnoll's spiked cudgel slammed into his left hand, goring through flesh and bone and pulverizing the flat of his hand with its impact.

Even so, it took all of Loren's willpower to stifle a cry of sheer terror when what seemed to be a wall of brilliantly - no, putrescently - pink flesh emerged from the sea.