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.

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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
That sounded rather like wishful thinking, as if some of our seekers after evil would almost have welcomed the release of a small, containable, but suitably photogenic, cloud of poison gas in the desert.
He pulled away a little and looked her in the eye and repeated his wishful words as clearly as he could.
But still my wishful dreams persist, and in them the dead streets are resurrected in a bustling afterlife, the ravaged downtown neighborhoods dense with foot traffic and a lively mercantile carnival.
Mergers with metropolitan parties in London or Dublin are the product of wishful thinking, the dream of achieving the nirvanas of a secure Union or Irish unity by the back door - and in the short term dishing the Shinners or the DUP. Irish Blogs
When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking.
There's a lot I could do this 4th St. that I couldn't do last 4th St. When people observed that I seemed to be doing significantly better, I didn't want to kick them, because they were not engaging in wishful thinking, they were right. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
We all know about wishful thinking, about denial and defence mechanisms, repression, narcissism, Freudian slips and the anal personality.
But its possible that Sather learned a lesson with gomez drury redden and rozi, a slow and painful one but maybe he'll do more of the Gaborik signings … here's to wishful thiking lol Rangers Report
In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.
While I think it's good news anytime one of these Republican neanderthals is in trouble, I'm afraid this may be wishful thinking. Grassley re-elect below 50 percent
It is wishful thinking to expect deeper change under his leadership.
It is a legend compounded of nostalgia, wishful thinking and apple pie. Times, Sunday Times
Iwould suggest that next time you contribute to this site or indeed any other serious blog you research your facts and present a more balanced approach-butthat is probably wishful thinking on my part. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Perseus insists he wants to defeat a dread monster called the kraken, as a man, not a god, which like the rest of this movie is a bit of wishful thinking. 3D Clashes With 'Titan's' Remake
Is this wishful thinking in the age of spin doctors and party whips?
I think he sees his cause with the eyes of love, and such lofty ambitions are mostly wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception.
Is not this all just wishful thinking? Times, Sunday Times
There doubtless is some wishful thinking in all this. Online Advertising Is a Lagging Indicator of a Recession - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
This is either a clumsy attempt to be generous or wishful thinking of a quite deluded kind. Times, Sunday Times
Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance. Times, Sunday Times
Just over a decade later, Thatcher's crude rightwing dogmatism had given way to a kind of all-pervasive centre-right wishful thinking. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones – review
You are ready to move on from wishful thinking to making a practical, step-by-step action plan that makes the most of your skills. The Sun
We now know that this was financial flatulence based on wishful thinking rather than any hard analysis.
It is wishful thinking to expect deeper change under his leadership.
Its treatment of the modern piano as a vehicle for Bach reflects older emphases, and praise for the clavichord might be wishful thinking, yet the writing is full of common sense and musicianship.
her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen.
And even if this is only wishful thinking, only a hope, we must recall that hope is one of those small transcendences of brute necessity that imbue life with meaning.
Wishful thinking is a fallacy that posits a belief because it or its consequence is desired to be true.
The Lamb was furiously unwishful to be dressed in his warm clothes again, but Anthea and Jane managed it, by force disguised as coaxing, and he never once whooping-coughed. The Phoenix and the Carpet
he wishfully indulged in dreams of fame
Those who live by wishful thinking perish in disillusion. The Uncertain Future
Now even the initiative has gone blooey and all that's left is the faith, which is indistinguishable from wishful thinking. Ellis Weiner: The Fraudacity of Hope: Bush's Faith-Based Triumph
It smacks of wishful thinking and the inability to accept one's limited lifespan. Times, Sunday Times
Some were wildly optimistic and it's what I call wishful thinking," said Chris Benson, who heads energy policy for the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
Others drew somewhat wishful links between the anti-war movement and the inquiry.
Not all the wishful thinking in the world will change the fact that fundamentalist fanatics who do not seek to make an accommodation with us have declared war on the West.
Practical action replaces wishful thinking at work. The Sun
Do you think it can help or is it just wishful thinking? The Sun
A graduate student in sociology is one who didn't get his fill of jargonized wishful thinking as an undergraduate. Sociology and Other 'Meathead' Majors
The wishful-thinking of movie script-writers when it comes to technology can be sharply contrasted with their complete unimaginativeness when designing alien life.
Or living in a fantasy of wishful make-believe.
This, I am sorry to say, is almost entirely wishful thinking.
He falls for the babysitter, Belén, a pulsating nymphette who tells of how she wants her pornstar mother's lover for her own, and it all goes downhill from there - to murder, disappearance or wishful abandonment.
She starts responding to his wishful blabberings about the future.
Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance. Times, Sunday Times
But reports that his body had been identified in the wreckage proved to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
I suspect his assertion, memorable though it is, was based on wishful thinking.
That's a fact, and no amount of wishful thinking or Kum-Bay-Yah New Age sensitivity is going to change that. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Yes | No | Report from cindypiep wrote 2 weeks 3 days ago moishe, I know, call it wishful thinking Georgia Man In Boxers Kills Buck With A Stick
her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
It is wishful thinking to expect deeper change under his leadership.
That's likely to prove wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
You will have a practical, positive approach to life that helps you swap wishful thinking for purposeful action - and it gets results. The Sun
This giant Neolithic tumulus near Avebury, the largest man-made prehistoric mound in Europe, has been a source of observation, speculation and wishful thinking for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This may sound like wishful thinking but how else will we create hope from the despair of untold child death, wanton neglect of girls and women, and a rich elite feasting on the misery of millions in poverty?
Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance. Times, Sunday Times
Home plans can go from wishful thinking to a step-by-step action plan now you see how other people's minds are working. The Sun
We need to understand that they know who they are, and are clear about their interests and in that clear tough-minded way that we need to sit down and make it clear that we're not going the base relationships on delusions and wishful thinking.
Kazimoto wrapped an enormous mound of cold mtama pudding in a cloth and went his way, prophesying darkly of murder and sudden death lurking behind rocks and trees, as unwishful to be alone as a terrier without a master, but much too faithful to refuse duty. The Ivory Trail
Yet, the rebels say this is wishful thinking and that their weapons are captured from government forces.
However, misguided wishful thinking has made the long-term prognostication considerably worse than necessary. Asia Times Online
The Republicans will continue to say no and block the legislative process because they will start engaging in wishful thinking about the 2012 elections. Think Progress » Lieberman Begins To Distance Himself From The Health Care Bill That He Crafted
This is not quite whistling in the dark but it does seem wishful. The Times Literary Supplement
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
They're opulent, suggestible and effortfully sophisticated, but more importantly, they are not just wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
He wishfully indulged in dreams of fame.
I am wishful to visit the wonderful city someday.
She's now on the road with her one-woman play, Wishful Drinking, a funny autobiographical story about addiction, mental illness and being the product of what she calls "Hollywood in-breeding. Back in the bikini? Carrie Fisher drops 50 pounds with Jenny Craig
It smacks of wishful thinking and the inability to accept one's limited lifespan. Times, Sunday Times
The link he assumes between local control and sustainable development is based on wishful thinking.
In short, we "believe" (note a root meaning of "belief" is "lief" -- which is wishful thinking) what we believe mostly because we have been massively socially/culturally programmed to have these beliefs. The straight-jackets of humanity are socially conditioned and absolutized institutions.
Jack made all sorts of wonderful plans for their lives together, some more wishful than realistic.
Some of chemistry's popular tales are probably outright fabrication, the product of wishful thinking, over-embellished recollection, wilful self-aggrandisement or a skewed historical agenda.
That may prove to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Others suggest that this may be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful -- at least Oswald, I know, was -- than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
I am sorry, but that's real wishful thinking, or as Bill Clinton would impolitely say "a biggest fairytale". Poll: National Race Tightens; Majority Says Obama Flip-Flopped On Key Issues
her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
Conservative high command is the victim of wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
My reaction is that it is you who is engaging in wishful thinking. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
It is the happy outcome that a bonanza of energy income has now made practically doable what was once only imaginatively wishful.
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful – at least Oswald, I know, was – than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
By Bukowski's own admission, he was always the hero of his stories, which are shot through with black humour, misogyny, misanthropy, narcissism, wishful thinking, and inconsolable loneliness.
Are they wishfully trying to modernize the religion into something it isn't?
LL, your book haul is a thing of beauty – and I know your thoughts on each one of them will blow out my own reading list into something much more wishful! 2009 Round-Up « Tales from the Reading Room
Admittedly that's wishful thinking on our part, since a half Chris Brown / half Rihanna baby would be bound by genetics to have a head shaped exactly like an alien prawn, a set of teeth that looks like a ceramic shotgun wound and the world's most humiliating bumfluff moustache. Hecklerspray
That might sound like wishful thinking but it has to be considered. Times, Sunday Times
Wishful thinking is generally understandable, even if it's unhelpful.
For some reason I'm thinking it may sound similar to either "coquettish" or "obsolescence," but at this point that may be nothing over and above wishful thinking. Ask MetaFilter
Rowan, who had heard such wishful schemes before, tried not to get his hopes up.
But reports that his body had been identified in the wreckage proved to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Through these blind streets, unwishful to be spied, The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations
But this may be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
A permanent body that functions as an external examination institute is still only wishful thinking.
Or you're guilty of wishful thinking to an extreme degree.
This may be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
But reports that his body had been identified in the wreckage proved to be wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Home plans that may seem just wishful thinking click into action. The Sun
Both companies have been mentioned as possible suitors, but most analysts say that's wishful thinking.
It seems to be based on wishful thinking rather than scientific evidence.
An ambition that just days ago would have seemed wishful thinking is transformed into a bold plan. The Sun
There's a lot of woolly-minded wishful thinking in his essay.
For today's tyros, cast your eyes across the Atlantic, where Eggers, Lethem, Franzen et al emanate a buzz that is more than publishers' wishful thinking.
In our wishful thinking about the 1960s, no figures occupy a more prominent place than the Kennedys.
Home plans that seemed like wishful thinking can turn into a good plan. The Sun
Given the headwinds Britain faces, this looks like wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
But is this just wishful thinking on the part of luxury executives? Times, Sunday Times
Pre-war, there was a strong whiff of wishful thinking in the coalition's plans for Basra.
Given the headwinds Britain faces, this looks like wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
When it comes to wishful thinking, the heart is a willing accomplice. Times, Sunday Times
In the weaker poems, the effect is wishful and mechanical, but there are many moments of startling illumination, and these are made more powerful by the seeming plainness and directness of his manner.
Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance. Times, Sunday Times
Such wishful thinking of theirs will never be realized.
I am hoping that the DSL modem is going to protect the computer probably wishful thinking. Voltage
Wishful thinking about the abundance of your time and abilities is a side effect of the superhero-like-buzz you get from capturing everything in your environment and feeling on top of the inputs in your life. How to Maintain a Project List that Doesn’t Crush Your Soul | Impact Lab
Most of my Somerset will have to stay unlearned, leaving the county, the land and the people to grow in my mind on a basis of myth and wishful thinking.
Let us study our victory with cold and ruthless self-examination and prepare for future campaigns on the basis of facts and evidence shorn of any wishful thinking or self-delusion.
Maybe "merry me?" is a wishful thinking sentiment, as in, the giver is hoping the receiver will so be grateful for the the cookie gift that the giver will get lucky and the receiver will make them "merry"...*nudge nudge wink wink* ...But the Words Get in the Way
You will have a practical, positive approach to life that helps you swap wishful thinking for purposeful action - and it gets results. The Sun
Unfortunately, reality is: if one reaches out to pet a rabid dog, no amount of wishful, pretty thinking will keep that dog from biting you.
Without possessing the necessary skills, strategic intent is merely wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents' defeat.
These are not mere suppositions or wishful thinkings.
What at first may seem like wishful thinking could turn into an action plan that will transform your working life. The Sun
Work-wise, you replace wishful thinking with an action plan. The Sun
Is this just wishful thinking on their part? Exploring language (6th edn)
Such wishful thinking of theirs will never be realized.
What available knowledge is there to support such a notion is possible or is it basically a case in wishful thinking which has no place in a critical thinking exercise. Critical Thinking Exercise
I think he sees his cause with the eyes of love, and such lofty ambitions are mostly wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
And heroes, in the long run, may be far more difficult to live with than any wishful thinker. What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
This is not so much wishful thinking as clutching at straws. The Sun
Many people have financial problems because of wishful thinking. Christianity Today
I think she rather likes me. But maybe that's just wishful thinking.
Not out there in some wishful scenario of the future, but in a date nailed down in time.
Her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
His wishful forecasts on economic growth were nicknamed Rosy Scenario by his colleagues, but now the Congressional Budget Office has matched his rosiness.
But the simple fact is, whether through wishful thinking or deliberate deceit, the administration uttered untruths.
Did she get on Leander's nerves, or was that what they called wishful thinking on her part? Consultant Care
We hope relevant parties do not indulge in their wishful calculations.
Times change, but only a killjoy would grudge Scots a bit of nostalgic wishful thinking at a time of year ripe for reflection.
Whipped by longing, stung and half numbed by a jealousy he must not show, and unwishful to wound her, he waited for a sign, feeling as if she must know why he was waiting. Swan Song
What seemed wishful thinking can turn into real love. The Sun
This is not so much wishful thinking as clutching at straws. The Sun
But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve.
For despite the artist's romantic wishful thinking, his rustic Bretons were no simple peasants.
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
Action replaces wishful thinking as you take control of your future. The Sun
Your profoundly pompous posts lend support to the theory that people pick knicks that represent wishful thinking. Obama's Church: Pillorying Wright An Assault Upon African-American Culture
Is it simply a speculative promotional ‘guess’ based on over-optimistic wishful thinking?
Conservative high command is the victim of wishful thinking. Times, Sunday Times
I said in a wishful small voice hoping she'll forgive me and save me the humiliation by just pointing to my desk.
Talk of the Chinese coming to the rescue is just wishful thinking, says one industry analyst.
But this might just be wishful, conventional thinking about a novel that is resolutely concerned with metanarrative rather than narrative. The Times Literary Supplement
A chegoe once lit upon the back of my hand; wishful to see how he worked, I allowed him to take possession. Wanderings in South America
This documented fact makes the writer's supposed statistic look like the wishful thinking of a fantasist.
You will have a practical, positive approach to life that helps you swap wishful thinking for purposeful action - and it gets results. The Sun
Here, a distinction needs to be made between our concepts of what ordinary reality is, our preconceptions and wishful thinking, and its raw, implacable facticity.
Those of us who conjured this thought were nearer to wishful than original thinkers. Times, Sunday Times
My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime.
It is wishful thinking to expect deeper change under his leadership.
His claims to be a millionaire are just wishful thinking.
Time to get over wishful thinking about the reach of dense, transit-oriented living and do much more focusing on how to make automobility and sprawling residential areas less carbon intense. The Future is In Cities « PubliCola
It's one thing to examine the options, indulge in a bit of wishful thinking, put out a few feelers and make a few offers; it is another to pursue a determined course of action to achieve a concrete result.
This is either a clumsy attempt to be generous or wishful thinking of a quite deluded kind. Times, Sunday Times
The ties of community are fragile; they are hard to weave but easy to break; they can't be drawn together by wishful thinking.
It's a simple refusal to acknowledge reality, a wishful desire to escape the order of things.
But Sapolsky is worried about "continuities," including the U.S. "propensity to intervene internationally," "exploitation of our gullibility about management systems," and "wishful thinking about inter-organizational agency coordination. MIT World: Recent Updates
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.". Sigmund Freud
It is wishful thinking to expect deeper change under his leadership.
Straight talking and planning replace all the wishful thinking to get your home and family plans moving. The Sun
This chitchat - bitchy but accepting, faintly scurrilous but jovial - was yet another example of Hollywood wishfulness.
Might it be that Marx faced facts while others sought the dubious shelter of wishful thinking?
The finger of blame and anger should be directed at our policy makers in recent years and their contemptible combination of wishful thinking, political opportunism and incompetence. Times, Sunday Times
I dont engage in cheerleading excercises and blind wishful thinking either. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
You don't know how they relate until you examine them and it's better to examine the evidence than base conclusions on wishful thinking.
In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace.
Women and girls who commit neonaticide tend to be exceedingly passive, and they respond to pregnancy with a combination of denial, wishful fantasy, and terror. Neonaticide : When Mothers Kill Their Newborns
He does not understand her, but is moved to see her so earnest and wishful.
In their view art education should be championed for its own sake, not because of a wishful sentiment that classes in painting, dance and music improve pupils' math and reading skills and standardized test scores.
Simply closing one's eyes and pretending it isn't looming, despite all the available evidence to those who want to look for it, is an exercise in denial and wishful thinking.

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