wishful

“I accept there is a degree of wishful thinking,” he says regarding his belief in his painting, which doesn’t make him any less charming a subject for the show.

Yet wishful thinking and therapeutic benefits don’t make something true.

This was of course wishful thinking as well as a political nonstarter.

It’s a shot in the arm for those who believe that taxing the rich will redirect money toward working stiffs, a proposition some critics say is “wishful thinking” and would lead to capital flight.

But wishful thinking won’t change human nature or the physics of our atmosphere.