Most don't understand why he would willingly spend his Tuesday nights practicing drills.

Not a watt more would he willingly spend.

Only a shut-in, a depressive, or a recovering political junkie who has forgotten to take his methadone would willingly spend one of the big social nights of the year watching a two-hour Republican presidential debate.

Ms. Sanjuan and Mr. Huereca throw themselves into their roles with such gusto that one would willingly spend more than a mere 90 minutes in the company of these unpleasant characters.

Someone who would willingly spend time with her when he could be doing other things; a friend, like Kenny and Anna, Moira and Lars.

I would willingly spend a few thousand dollars extra in taxes to be freed from the drudgery of this annual task.

The remaining part of the day I would willingly spend in running over in my thoughts the several heads of this morning's conversation, and tomorrow shall be glad to meet you here again about the same time.

But we would not willingly spend another night in the open, especially with a new storm brewing on the horizon.

And a growing number of people willingly spend an increasing part of their lives connected to the Internet, the most voracious vacuum of personal data in history.

Why, baseball players ask, would the Yankees or any other team willingly spend enough in salaries to trigger a costly tax, whether it's $28 million, $16 million or $8 million?