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136 examples of Wishful in a sentence

But we cannot accomplish all these goals by wishful thinking with our eyes closed or by armchair speculation or by expecting salvation from empty sky.
So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, I like to think of myself as rational.
It hasn't, and it's not going to, because that's wishful thinking, and wishful thinking isn't a game plan, it's procrastination, and we can't procrastinate on something this important.
Her virginity statement was not a piece of wishful thinking.
But in reality, our gut is extremely vulnerable to all kinds of wishful thinking and biases.
It's not wishful thinking.
I'm convinced that there's some sort of pull to nostalgia, to wishful thinking.
I really do believe that, and, no, it ain't wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking, I know.
Answer: It's wishful thinking, Mr. Gore & you being a former VP of the USA know it!
Skip this film as wishful thinking, and better spend your time reading "The Warrior Elite" by Dick Couch (Crown, New York 2001)for the best description as to what really goes on in this training.
Or is it only my wishful thinking?
Hessed Mufla (Amazing Grace) contains full frontal male nudity, at least in magazines, which turn into a wishful dream sequence.
To say "they don't make 'em like that anymore" would be wishful thinking on part of the cineast.
Must be someone with a wishful attempt to get viewers.
But the Brexiteers’ promise remains wishful thinking.
In fact, the financial statements of mega-banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.
Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and conventional wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.
Burned by a decade of wishful thinking and over-expectations – from the “color revolutions” in the post-Soviet world to the Arab Spring – Western public opinion has chosen to hear only bad news now.
In an age of contempt for international cooperation, not to mention entrenched climate-change denial in the Trump administration, is achieving the SDGs wishful thinking?
Was this wishful thinking or self-fulfilling prophecy?
It may be wishful thinking, but our hope for the new year is that governments will make a more concerted effort to chart a new course from Dalio’s path B to path A.Ronald Reagan PutinOn May 22, two free-market liberals will meet in the Kremlin: one an ex-oilman who is the son of a US president, the other an ex-KGB agent who is the son of a Saint Petersburg maintenance man.
So, how can governments’ tendency to satisfy fiscal targets by wishful thinking be overcome?
It is unclear how much of this is wishful thinking and how much is based on real shifts in identities and attachments.
Any malicious wishful thinking on the part of Assad’s regime would be dispelled with every glance at the sky.
Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.
To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration.
It was wishful thinking, but it permeated the political and social climate.
The European Union cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking when it comes to Morsi’s ambitions and the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda.
But, with GDP growth now slowing across Asia, that hope appears to be wishful thinking.
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