Words similar to wishful

Example sentences for: wishful

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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.
Prudie thinks your use of the subjunctive--he "may" be using you--is a hybrid emotion of wishful thinking and denial.
(I'll let readers decide for themselves if the magazine is "boring," a knock that reminds me of lawyers' wishful thinking when I started the American Lawyer .)
Critical thinking has been replaced by wishful thinking.
I fear my reading of Bennett's lists was clouded by a wishful vision of more purposefully directed, but still active and innovative, learning.