Wishful thinking
wishful thinking (noun) - avoiding the real problem, thinking instead about what you wish would happenmere wishful thinking
might have been mere wishful thinking
indulging in wishful thinking
merely indulging in wishful thinking
a little fact, a lot of wishful thinking
failed through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking
it would be wishful thinking to explain it all away
can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking.
amounts to little more than wishful thinking
there is a difference between a "wish" and" wishful thinking"
if the desire for X is to be anything but wishful thinking, then they will have to do Y
a temptation to wishful thinking
submerged in wishful thinking
would in practice be mere wishful thinking
wishful thinking rather than practical logic
wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force
speculation and wishful thinking
hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make solving this problem easier
sharing in their company's wishful thinking
wishful thinking made political partisans optimistic
most of this hopefulness was mere wishful thinking
an illusion, a phantasm derived from mere figures, a figment of journalistic imagination, an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking
they have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics
she pulled herself sternly out of such wishful thinking and prepared to continue her journey
Example sentences:
* Was he merely indulging in wishful thinking?
* There is a difference between a" wish" and" wishful thinking".
* I liked to think it was because they thought he'd failed, that our survival in the mountains had been his humiliation, but I would have to admit this might have been mere wishful thinking.
* They have reflected the wishful thinking that informed liberal development politics in the post-War period.
* Sheer wishful thinking.
* I suppose it's wishful thinking.
* A little fact, a lot of wishful thinking.
* If only… but she pulled herself sternly out of such wishful thinking and prepared to continue her journey.
* Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.
* Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.
* Wishful thinking made political partisans more optimistic about their own party's prospects and more inclined to forecast their opponents' defeat.
* Unfortunately, most of this hopefulness was mere wishful thinking.
* It seems that he failed through a combination of misinformation and wishful thinking.
* However, the title of this paper restricts reference to developed countries only, but even here the normative suggestions about distortions to prices of factors and outputs (leading to inappropriate signals to research institutions) seem to amount to little more than wishful thinking.
* The huge postbag on the subject from SHE's readers shows us that the subject needs far more serious investigation, and can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking.
* But it would be wishful thinking to explain it all away, or even most, of the increase as an artefact of recording changes.
* If the British government's desire for alterations is to be anything but wishful thinking, these will have to be obtained in the detailed interpretation and implementation of the provisions.
* None of this is wishful thinking.
* Wishful thinking?
* It was wishful thinking.
* Since temptations to inattentiveness, prejudice, wishful thinking, are as strong as moral temptations, there are times when `;Face facts'; imposes itself as the most rigorous, the most unwelcome of imperatives.
* If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking, that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside.
* For people in this position, choice of a shorter repayment schedule in response to APR/credit cost disclosure would in practice be mere wishful thinking.
* Especially in the area of gender, wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force, with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal.
* There is some speculation, or perhaps just wishful thinking, that royalty may have graced the vehicle as Ballater is the nearest station to Balmoral Castle.
* Or is it all an illusion, a phantasm derived from mere figures, a figment of journalistic imagination, an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly, and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one?
* Your correspondent, however, seems to prefer to rely on his own wishful thinking.
