Type of thinking

Usage examples of wishful.

For a moment he clings to the idea that the intruders have gone, or that his celebratory Chinese takeaway supper caused him to hallucinate, but he knows that this is wishful thinking.

The Politburo needed to know, Nikita Khrushchev insisted, whether the rumors circulating in the Kremlin about there being a third English defector were based on fact or wishful thinking.

When it does we must make sure that no wet breast is available for the government to examine and that we in authority ridicule it as wishful thinking.

On the very last page, in a transcendent moment in the history of wishful figments, the Escapist had captured Adolf Hitler and dragged him before a world tribunal.

She had heard tell of those ghosties who could move things with naught but their wills, but she suspected that was a great deal of wishful thinking on the part of the talebearers.

He smiled indulgently when her mother took her to an improvised meeting center in a shabby house near the Kebar where there was endless talk of Adonai and of prophets and wishful prophecies of future deliverance of the Hebrews from their bondage in Babylon.

Ramsay might have been the one person above all now in Lom whom she was wishful to see.

He was doing very nicely in this heavily populated area, with its regular weddings and a full quota of girls wishful to be photographed as potential pin-up dollies somewhat saucier than the swimsuit beauties of the war.

In the looking-glass, her new visage had seemed unobjectionable to her, but how could she be certain that this was not merely wishful thinking?

Maybe a lot of guys assumed that being a masseuse meant she was loose as a goose, but guys, by their hormonal nature, always indulged in wishful thinking.

She wanted to be mistaken, to have misplaced, miscounted the essentially interchangeable stock, but knew at once that no amount of wishful thinking, checking, rechecking the shelves, could erase the stubborn fact of loss gaping up at her from the mockingly vacant slots of the gem trays.

Either Scriber was a wishful thinker, or his tool gave him amazingly sharp sight.

He smiled indulgently when her mother took her to an improvised meeting center in a shabby house near the Kebar where there was endless talk of Adonai and of prophets and wishful prophecies of future deliverance of the Hebrews from their bondage in Babylon.

It was wishful thinking, to avoid the racial and political implications of an organized antiblack group, possibly based in another country.

Three bridges connected the hostel at varying levels to a larger building next door, which on closer inspection proved to be Flight Central, where those pilots who found themselves to be respectable went to register the news of their being on-port, and whether they was wishful of taking berth, or had a berth on offer.