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Example sentences for: wishful

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Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but Sweet and Lowdown feels like penance for Barbara Kopple's bleak documentary Wild Man Blues (1998), which chronicled Allen's European tour with his New Orleans-style jazz band.
Theirs was a revolution of the imagination, and many of their works continue to present the vigor of that spirit even after three-quarters of a century of pastiches and secondhand derivations, but at the same time they present an unhappy example of wishful thinking.
Yet he seems to think that if he allows us weak-minded mortals to perceive that naked truth too directly, we will succumb to creationism or mysticism or theories such as Gaia, which is wishful thinking dressed up as science.
The interesting twist here is that, as far as the science is concerned, conservatives are right, and liberals lag a wishful step behind when they cite sure proof that early day care decisively influences a child's development.
The implicit, if wishful, message: We can have our machines and money and preserve the wild, unspoiled Northwest.