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421 examples of Wishing in a sentence

I really liked him a lot in this role and found myself wishing that he had done more acting.
We found ourselves wishing for the boat to sink, Malkovich, Deneuve et al to be devoured by sharks.
When I woke up, I was wishing that Stirba and her "gang" would "pop out" somewhere.
I feel for Cage's character while wishing the movie would just end.
Her daughter is now pregnant (due late 3/2K6) and so wishing her mother was with us to enjoy and experience her grandchild.
If you want to get a more realistic view of Miss Holliday's life read "Wishing on the Moon" by Donald Clarke.Her early recordings are available (now out of copyright) on a multitude of labels,generally the only difference being the packaging.Listen to the freshness and innocence of "I wished on the moon" and forget that this terrible film was ever made.
Let us hope the same can not be said of the actors, producer, director and all involved in this sad, sad movie made for (and by) people who like gnawing their arm off and wishing they were dead.
I found myself wishing I could work in the sub shop with them.
A roller coaster ride between wishing it would end and wishing I had something better to do at two-thirty in the morning.
Even accounting for a low budget you cannot but flinch from the attempted suspense which soon becomes repetitive, after 30 minutes I was wishing the unseen alien would just wipe out the motley bunch in one swoop.
"Saawariya" is not so much a Bollywood film meant to tug at your heart strings and leave you pining for your own unrequited love, but more a mood piece which will leave you wishing you could live in the imaginary world of pure, kind street walkers, beautiful all-white Eid nights and women's clothes that put French couturiers to shame.
"Azumi" only left me yawning and wishing for the closing credits.
They end up in the mansion of a rich lady (Irene Pappas giving a performance less lively than some of the furniture and obviously wishing she were elsewhere) because they run out of gasoline, and when she finds them in her garage syphoning off some fuel she realises she has a use for them.
I found myself wishing the principals would get out of the way to let the opera speak for itself in toto.
I was hoping to see something scary, or suspenseful, instead, I was wishing for the movie to end.
We spent the entire movie wishing we were doing something else (ANYTHING ELSE) and chastising ourselves for seeing it through to the awful end in the fruitless hope it would redeem itself somewhere along the line.
I found myself wishing that the murderous husband would throw himself overboard!
I kept wishing I had learned how to darn socks for fun and profit when I was younger, so I might have accomplished something constructive while viewing this moo-vie.
Twenty minutes into the movie and I started looking at my watch and wishing that I wasn't here.
I have never before felt so restless during a movie, shifting in my chair, looking at my watch, wishing I could fast forward.
Wishing the problem away will only make it worse.
How to Prevent the UK’s Self-DestructionLONDON – If you were a Briton who had been stuck in Antarctica for the past year and a half, you might be forgiven for wishing you had stayed put.
As psychologists have shown, people are susceptible to "wishful thinking bias," wishing away possible future problems that they would rather not think about.
Such plans may never have to be implemented, but Europe’s leaders should make them now, rather than wishing later that they had.
I atone for experiencing this antipathy, or for wishing Y's disappearance.
Either way, the result can be an environment hostile to people and businesses wishing to use new technologies.
We do not grow up wishing to work for crooks and liars.
Japan, not wishing to be left out of the great infrastructure game in Myanmar, is investing billions in port reconstruction.
No one should be wishing for a replay – even if Nixon eventually was impeached.
If they allow the fears of the present to continue to stifle action, they may soon find themselves wishing for a vanished opportunity.
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