wishful

How To Use wishful In A Sentence

• Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work. The Sun
• But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking.
• Planning and practical action replace wishful thinking and it gets results at work and home. The Sun
• Conservative high command is the victim of wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
• Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning.
• The Guttmacher Institute has looked at the effects of comprehensive sex education - the sort where the facts are presented, not just antisex propaganda and wishful thinking. Boys & Girls Together
• Now that's what I call wishful thinking on your part. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
• This is not so much wishful thinking as clutching at straws. The Sun
• I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized. Incorruptible and Forever
• Job plans that seemed like wishful thinking take off. The Sun