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Woody Allen and Elisabeth Shue as a romantic couple in Deconstructing Harry mark yet another of Allen's attempts to refute the observable laws of the universe, a bit of wishful thinking on par with cold fusion.
On Putin, the Moscow Times said there is "a shocking amount of wishful thinking masquerading as analysis."
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.
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.
They share a wishful vision of human perfectibility dressed up as an idea of justice.