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Sentence Examples Both companies have been mentioned as possible suitors, but most analysts say that's wishful thinking. The link he assumes between local control and sustainable development is based on wishful thinking. It's a simple refusal to acknowledge reality, a wishful desire to escape the order of things. Rowan, who had heard such wishful schemes before, tried not to get his hopes up. I suspect his assertion, memorable though it is, was based on wishful thinking. My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime. I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen. He pulled away a little and looked her in the eye and repeated his wishful words as clearly as he could. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Not out there in some wishful scenario of the future, but in a date nailed down in time. I said in a wishful small voice hoping she'll forgive me and save me the humiliation by just pointing to my desk. He does not understand her, but is moved to see her so earnest and wishful. Yet, the rebels say this is wishful thinking and that their weapons are captured from government forces. Times change, but only a killjoy would grudge Scots a bit of nostalgic wishful thinking at a time of year ripe for reflection. Others drew somewhat wishful links between the anti-war movement and the inquiry. I hope Elvis was wasted out of his skull and bought it as a joke, but that's wishful thinking. But to say that it's all going to come out fine, that always struck me as being wishful thinking of the first order. The idea that a walk-through might present an experience equivalent to actually being inside a building is wishful thinking indeed. For despite the artist's romantic wishful thinking, his rustic Bretons were no simple peasants. It is the happy outcome that a bonanza of energy income has now made practically doable what was once only imaginatively wishful. Show More Sentences It may well be the old congenital paranoia, but I detect more than a touch of wishful thinking here. This documented fact makes the writer's supposed statistic look like the wishful thinking of a fantasist. But the simple fact is, whether through wishful thinking or deliberate deceit, the administration uttered untruths. Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning. Pre-war, there was a strong whiff of wishful thinking in the coalition's plans for Basra. We now know that this was financial flatulence based on wishful thinking rather than any hard analysis. When Jesus in the Beatitudes says that the meek shall inherit the earth, he repeats the psalmist's wishful thinking. This is wishful thinking pursued to the point of deception and self-deception. 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. A permanent body that functions as an external examination institute is still only wishful thinking. A good bit of this is probably just wishful thinking on the part of Democratic politicos in Washington. In the wishful shelter of ignorance or amnesia, an abiding melancholy tends to creep into the populace. Jack made all sorts of wonderful plans for their lives together, some more wishful than realistic. However, wishful thinking would seem to have had a hand in these forecasts. It seems to be based on wishful thinking rather than scientific evidence. There's a lot of woolly-minded wishful thinking in his essay. The result was predictable, and indeed predicted by some observers, yet still came as a shock to the legions of professional fussers mired in wishful thinking. 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. With Mosaïque, being client focussed is not an advertising catchline, nor is it wishful thinking. But I say we have to stop the wishful thinking and the empty talk and resolutions and start dealing with this issue in a practical way. Show More Sentences The Sino-Indian conflict of 1962, however, exposed Nehru's wishful thinking on nonalignment. For that is the gag at the back of Howard's film: the wildest of wishful thinkings turns out to be true. 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. This caricature of Sir Charles Tupper from February 1896 depicts Liberal anxiety, Conservative wishful thinking and Tupper's self-regard. Arguably the most common cause of plans going wrong is simple wishful thinking. When three soldiers overheard his wishful musing they reached for their swords and disappeared into the night. The occasions when a man trips over a gold nugget while strolling with his head in a cloud of wishful thinking are few and far between. We hope, of course, that it will need to be deployed as little as possible, but that is wishful thinking. Instead, these were based on entirely unrealistic market estimates which can be described more as wishful thinking. And it is wishful thinking to believe that nobody will use it as a precedent. I'm not going to be negative when I say this, and it's by no means wishful thinking. In many instances, actual acknowledgement of that situation still remains within the realm of discourse and wishful thinking. We remain nonetheless very cautious and expect the Commission to give substance to this principle so that it does not remain wishful thinking. Those who believe that figures can do more than common sense should not indulge in wishful thinking. The vitality of the official language minority communities should not remain wishful thinking. Equality within the digital network is still an illusion that is not free of ideological wishful thinking. Last year's choice of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in hindsight seems a similar act of wishful thinking. It is not allowed by law but it would be a wishful evolution of their role and I'm all in favour of it. This draft simply represents a way for Azerbaijan to get a piece of paper where its wishful and unrealistic outcomes are listed. But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve. Show More Sentences Is this wishful thinking in the age of spin doctors and party whips? She starts responding to his wishful blabberings about the future. It occurs to me that the concept of an intricately organized network of terrorists is wishful thinking on the part of those forces aligned against them. His wishful forecasts on economic growth were nicknamed Rosy Scenario by his colleagues, but now the Congressional Budget Office has matched his rosiness. 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. But the idea he is going to attract droves of non-traditional Republican supporters is nothing more than wishful thinking. Does a Middle East foreign policy determined by wishful thinking and poor information sound familiar? In short, predicting the near-term collapse of the regime is largely an exercise in wishful thinking. 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. The bootstrapping from nowhere sounds like wishful thinking to me. 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. This is at best wishful thinking and grasping at last straws. 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. To try and help them by supplying working material is wishful thinking. And it needs to guide the formulation of family policies based on realities and not simply on wishful thinking that the futures of our children and grandchildren will simply look after themselves. For as long as the EU fails to thrash out a common foreign and security policy, much of what we want to implement, and should put great effort into implementing, will unfortunately remain nothing more than wishful thinking. The agriculture sector was quick to react and respond to this sort of wishful thinking, because there was a real disconnect between what the minister had announced and the actual details in the budget. If the directive is to be adopted and implemented, it must not be encumbered with a literary approach and wishful thinking, which have no place in a legal document. This hope is not just wishful thinking or human optimism. Whether it will last in the long term or become wishful thinking will depend to a crucial degree on our willingness and efforts to conduct reforms. Show More Sentences It seems clear that the Commission assessment most closely reflects the realities of the situation and that the view of the government ministries is coloured by wishful thinking. In 1993, the proposal to establish an international criminal jurisdiction to enforce international criminal law would have remained mere wishful legal thinking without the decisiveness of the Council. But if the world has learned one thing about this age of terrors, it is that wishful thinking, succumbing to blackmail, and vesting false hopes in unverifiable agreements are no answer at all. Dahl inherited from Dickens a direct feed into the terrors and wishful thinkings of the young, and that is why Freddie Highmore, as Charlie, is the nerve center of the film. After last night's crushing defeat, this sounds like wishful thinking. Perhaps they were merely the result of overly optimistic accounting or of wishful thinking about the value of dubiously contrived products that in the end were worthless. Strands of racism can be found on the movement's fringe, but most tea-party groups have done their best to snip these off. Along with the liberal disparagement comes a dose of wishful thinking. That kind of wishful thinking could become a reality if you want a brand new house and opt for part-exchange with a property developer. It certainly should, although we ought to make sure that this period is really used for reflection rather than for pleas, wishful thinking or creating the false impression that there is no alternative to the Treaty. Wise choices and hard work, not cornucopian wishful thinking, should guide our decisions as individuals and nations. Until the human rights community can respond to these objections systematically, no amount of wishful thinking or rhetorical appeal to all these agents would realize these rights. Her sense of how the world works is based on instinct, wishful thinking and second-hand information, and is almost entirely at odds with the way the world works. It is all wishful thinking but then such is the nature of following England's one-day planning, with its dead ends and chances missed, the shadows of the ghost team who might have been. The obviation of Roderick's death in no small part constitutes the wishful thinking of a military state in transition. This is simply a Panglossian idea, policy as wishful thinking. While these speculations are premature and flirt with wishful thinking, it makes geostrategic sense for the two adversaries to set aside their mutual hostility to address common concerns in the Middle East. Neither side has convinced the electorate these are real solutions rather than wishful thinking. Meanwhile, the killings in Toulouse have brought security and Islamism to the top of the agenda. At least 65 Peace Prizes have been awarded for wishful thinking. The European digital content is not wishful thinking or pie in the sky, which is why numerous suitors are currently wooing this dark object of their desire. The Assembly notes that, in practice, access to the rights of persons with physical or mental disabilities equally with those of healthy persons frequently remains wishful thinking and proves inadequate. Show More Sentences Fair Trade Banking is not just wishful thinking. Le Paige established a legitimation for the Parlement's authority which was part history, part romantic fiction, and part political wishful thinking. Religion is a kind of opium that allows a nation to lull itself into wishful dreams and so forget the injustices that are being perpetrated against the people. To say that the founder of Deconstruction survives this shambolic attack composed of equal parts unargued assertions and wishful thinking is to put things far too kindly. Examples from Classical Literature It's wishful thinking and we cannot permit such daydreaming in our precarious condition. And when Kansas was being settled so bloodily, in our slavery days, he felt wishful to go there. But, in spite of these ordinary defects, he was fond of his work and wishful to excel in it. This is contrasted to happenstance decision making based on impulsiveness and wishful thinking. We are weary of our voyage of discovery and wishful to arrive at the promised land. I can tell that Emily is wishful to pass through this structure. She seemed equally wishful to be studied, and we got on amazingly from the first moment of our acquaintance. Subconsciously he knew that this, at the very best, was wishful thinking. And this, I believe, is what most others would acknowledge who are accustomed to reflection, and wishful to strive against their natural corruptions. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of wishful? Words that rhyme with wishful What is the adverb for wishful? What is the adjective for wishful? What is the noun for wishful? Translations for wishful Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words wish for wishes wishers wisher wished wishbones wishfully wishfulness wishful thinking wishing wishing well wishing you well 7-letter Words Starting With w wi wis wish wishf wishfu