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Example sentences for: wishful

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The implicit, if wishful, message: We can have our machines and money and preserve the wild, unspoiled Northwest.
This is wishful thinking indeed for New York Democrats, who are scrabbling to find a strong candidate, especially since Andrew Cuomo declared yesterday that he would not run.
I fear my reading of Bennett's lists was clouded by a wishful vision of more purposefully directed, but still active and innovative, learning.
They share a wishful vision of human perfectibility dressed up as an idea of justice.
(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 .)