will-power
See also: willpower and will power
English
Noun
will-power (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of willpower
- 1968, Conquest, Robert, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, LCCN 68-17513, OCLC 1169910711, OL 21272570M, page 75:
- At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.
- 1975 [1971], Yesudian, Selvarajan, D. W. Stephenson, transl., Yoga Week by Week: Exercises and meditations for all year round, Harper & Row, →ISBN, LCCN 74-4620, OCLC 2024308, page 77:
- Mantrams: My power of resistance is growing from moment to moment.
My will-power is growing from moment to moment.
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