| Pre-war, there was a strong whiff of wishful thinking in the coalition's plans for Basra. |
| The link he assumes between local control and sustainable development is based on wishful thinking. |
| A good bit of this is probably just wishful thinking on the part of Democratic politicos in Washington. |
| I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen. |
| Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning. |
| But the simple fact is, whether through wishful thinking or deliberate deceit, the administration uttered untruths. |
