Everyone has now seen wishful thinking from both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama exposed as just wishful thinking.
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While there's surely a bit of wishful thinking to all this, there is, of course, wishful thinking among Trump critics in the other direction, too.
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They confuse wishful thinking with reality — just as liberals, in and out of the media, confused their wishful thinking with the reality of a Trump victory in 2016.
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Considering the rules — and reality — this is wishful thinking.
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That has always been the wishful thinking of brainless hawks.
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The nomination of Mr Sessions suggests that is wishful thinking.
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It's now clear this was little more than wishful thinking.
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Today, the same wishful thinking is as stubborn as ever.
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So 100 percent of service availability is just wishful thinking.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Airbus' Brexit certainty drive is wishful thinking.
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Thiel isn't taking Trump "seriously"; he's engaging in wishful thinking.
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Fact, or wishful thinking on the part of the authors?
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Sure, it's wishful thinking, unless he's wearing Snap's new Spectacles.
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"She's getting better," Grace said, but it was wishful, longing.
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Expecting Trump to abide by political norms is wishful thinking.
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Most liberals, however, see the technocrats' optimism as wishful thinking.
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Or what rock will magically cure my hangover (wishful thinking).
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Wishful thinking is not a reliable approach to legal compliance.
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Corporations cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking like politicians.
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Maybe. But wishful thinking does not make for smart policy.
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A desperate optimism arose from wishful thinking bias, distorting judgment.
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Still, some of the American proposals smack of wishful thinking.
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Business or personal wishful thinking causes a lot of trouble.
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Will a lot of it be bullshit and wishful thinking?
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Maybe. Then again, maybe this is all just wishful thinking.
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But wishful thinking is not legislation that funds the government.
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The only shaky defense is common sense and wishful thinking.
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Unfortunately there is no supporting evidence for this wishful thinking.
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Its numbers could never materialize because it was wishful thinking.
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But other analysts warn that may be more wishful thinking.
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"Moving to New York was wishful thinking," Mr. Placek said.
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"Moving to New York was wishful thinking," Mr. Placek said.
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Wishful thinking doesn't make the predator's bad behavior go away.
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Is this all just a bit too much like wishful thinking?
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Such checks on executive power were wishful thinking in More's time.
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Places like Happyland, Connecticut, and Confidence, Iowa seem like wishful mantras.
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But pivoting the conversation to Melania and Ivanka is wishful thinking.
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And wishful thinking will only drain you of time and energy.
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If that sounds like wishful thinking … 'tis the season for it.
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But naiveté can sometimes be a desperate form of wishful thinking.
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Such fan theories sounded a lot like wishful thinking — until now.
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But this is wishful thinking: most of itend up in landfill.
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"I think it's a little bit of wishful thinking," Walsh said.
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"If we're talking wishful here, I would choose that," she said.
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This is not just wishful thinking; their opponents feel the same.
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People think — they want to convert wishful thinking into hard evidence.
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He added that the rumors may be fueled by wishful thinking.
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Not infrequently, this level of zeal can cross into wishful thinking.
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Of course, this all may be no more than wishful thinking.
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"Wishful Drinking," Carrie Fisher It's all true and it's all good.
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The rest of us attributed her optimism to desperate wishful thinking.
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"It's wishful thinking on their behalf," Brewer said of the efforts.
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As we have seen in recent years, that was wishful thinking.
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Meanwhile, the #NeverTrump folks are still not done with their wishful thinking.
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"The current equity rally seems largely driven by wishful thinking," Takada said.
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Foreign policy must be based on reality,not hyperbole or wishful thinking.
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That may be wishful thinking, particularly given his middling finish in Nevada.
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PILLSBURY: It&aposs a kind of wishful thinking that was played to.
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This seems like more wishful thinking, at least in the near future.
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Unfortunately it was all just a year of wishful, wistful, magical thinking.
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Some reprehensible wishful thinking, likely from Patriots fans on that NFL hack.
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"This is Bannon's wishful thinking," a person close to the President said.
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So those two are my own wishful thinking that they will die.
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Of course, this all might just be wishful thinking on my part.
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But for now, it's wishful thinking for the dog days of summer.
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Achieving a democratic transition in Venezuela will require more than wishful thinking.
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To achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela requires more than wishful thinking.
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I know it's wishful thinking, but it definitely makes for good drama.
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Wishful thinking can stir up painful emotions, such as resentment and regret.
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I don't know where that came from, was my response: Wishful typing?
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Fairy dust, wishful thinking and free-lunch economics won't get us there.
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Hopeful talk from USMCA supporters has proven wishful thinking in the past.
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"Secondly, I think it's just wishful thinking at this point," Cain added.
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The scenario: elected officials promising workers nice pensions based on wishful thinking.
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Years of half-measures and wishful thinking have done enough damage already.
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The 2016 presidential campaign made the group's wishful thinking even more apparent.
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That proved from the start of the match to be wishful thinking.
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Half-Life 3 itself isn't just a wishful flight of fan fancy.
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Barack Obama's wishful thinking hasn't changed the harsh reality for most American workers.
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It might just be wishful thinking, but we reckon this one's got legs.
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So far, the establishment has been trying to beat Trump with wishful thinking.
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But you soon realize this casual style is either camouflage or wishful thinking.
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Perhaps this growing optimism at week's end will prove to be wishful thinking.
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"Anyone who thinks this was accidental is engaged in wishful thinking," Williams says.
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Still, a quick perusal of TheRealReal's edit does make for some wishful browsing.
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But Bruce explained that most of the stuff they write is wishful thinking.
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Maybe that's my own wishful thinking; I think Scale looks cool as hell.
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And they have kind of a wishful-thinking bias about investments like stocks.
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Ramsay will die before Theon (although that might just be wishful thinking).9.
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But to those who fled the conditions there, it sounded like wishful thinking.
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The theme is "End Malaria for Good" — and it's not just wishful thinking.
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Most of the speech was a restatement of known goals and wishful thinking.
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Palmer cautioned that, for some, the 2½-month timeframe might be wishful thinking.
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Now, in the era of America First, it looks increasingly like wishful thinking.
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To the outside world, Tasmania has long been a place of wishful thinking.
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Some people might respond that asking the Chamber to change is wishful thinking.
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Those processes must be allowed to continue unhindered, not crippled by wishful thinking.
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"That's wishful thinking," she said -- but that's what the holidays are all about.
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But those valuations may be a bit of myth — or perhaps wishful thinking.
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To think that we will find a better direction may be wishful thinking.
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This strikes me as largely wishful thinking, but it's obviously worth a try.
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Attention wishful foreign investors and vacation house hunters: The world is your oyster.
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Non-nuanced impeachment coverage has been characterized by scattered facts and wishful thinking.
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There are certain wishful wardrobe staples that you resign yourself to never owning.
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But it was, at least for those on the left, mostly wishful thinking.
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"Foreign policy must be based on reality, not hyperbole or wishful thinking," Sen.
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Yet there are real reasons to think such arguments amount to wishful thinking.
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As much as I'd love it too, I think it might be wishful thinking.
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Another is whether the "pre-pardon" talk went beyond wishful thinking on Cohen's side.
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We now realize, however, the canali were an optical illusion fueled by wishful thinking.
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Moreover, the notion that hard work is all it takes is just wishful thinking.
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As wishful thinking goes, this isn't the most far-fetched forecast for the race.
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But it's unclear if minimizing social movements is wishful thinking or long-term thinking.
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But based on his rhetoric and actions so far, this looks like wishful thinking.
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"When I arrived I was virtually unattended," she wrote in her memoir Wishful Drinking.
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The dream toward the end of the movie, was it all just wishful thinking?
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Three reasons suggest this might be more than mere wishful thinking on their part.
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Eight years seems like, once again, a bit of wishful thinking on Zimmer's part.
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Or maybe that's wishful thinking since Mädchen Amick and Skeet Uhlrich have blistering chemistry.
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This time, you're sorting out truth from exaggeration, wishful thinking from the presently doable.
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Wishful thinking: Cooperate with special counsel Bob Mueller, and tell Trump everything is fine.
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Our love of tech had acquired a religious quality: part wishful thinking, part hubris.
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That's a bit of wishful thinking in my experience, but it's not far off.
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But Laurence was in his nineties then, and this may have been wishful thinking.
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While this idea might seem like wishful thinking, it could soon become a reality.
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I'd say it's wishful thinking, but eventually it stops being much of a choice.
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All rest more on wishful thinking than a solid understanding of politics in Iran.
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After two disappointing losses, he sounded as if he were doing some wishful thinking.
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His EP title track "Heaven's Only Wishful" floored me when I first heard it.
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There are glimpses of hopefulness in there but it might just be wishful thinking.
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But the final quarter of Sunday's absorbing showdown made that feel like wishful thinking.
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Yet as much as they despise wishful thinking, they replace it with simplistic thinking.
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The idea that it will trickle down somehow to the worker is wishful thinking.
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But many Americans are still struggling, and careful thinking, not wishful thinking, is needed.
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But that won't stop me from poking some fun at the filmmakers' wishful physics.
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I understand the wishful thinking, but they had to see where this was going.
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And not mess around and give people wishful hopes for things that won't happen.
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GC: I'm not sure, I thought it was wishful thinking-, SS: Ah, okay. [Laughter].
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Calculator A basic guide for future expatriates, wishful foreign investors and vacation house hunters.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking on our parts to assume these looks are something more.
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For another argument against wishful thinking, I recommend Jonathan Chait in New York magazine.
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Instead, we retreat behind nationalist slogans, wishful thinking and flat-out know-nothing denialism.
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Now, this might simply be wishful thinking brought to life by a welcome rumor.
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Canada needs to get down to brass tacks on this issue, not wishful thinking.
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Mr Aso's scepticism might just be wishful thinking: he is, after all, a lifelong smoker.
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Expecting Facebook to help in the fight against misleading ads is probably wishful thinking, anyway.
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But there's also a sense of wishful thinking that's kept the idea alive, she said.
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"Lazer Team" ends by setting itself up for a sequel, but that's mighty wishful thinking.
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Miners seem confident that the law could yet change, but that may be wishful thinking.
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Maybe that's wishful thinking and this is just another internet phenomenon that can't be explained.
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The show's supposed feminism is wishful thinking; it's a feminist fantasy for whiny white people.
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This is wishful thinking by those who want their side to win at any cost.
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There's a kind of hope I'm into that is not wishful thinking or willful obliviousness.
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Speaking of wishful thinking, here's an assorted collection of what else could be on hand:
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Onlookers also throw wishful coins, representing offerings and gratitude towards the protective but severe deity.
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Many pundits claim otherwise, but this is based on wishful thinking of two different sorts.
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Perhaps a SelGo fan added The Weeknd's name to the song due to wishful thinking?
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This was wishful thinking, and in Indiana, Mr. Trump put an end to the mirage.
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I think the court is engaged in an exercise of understandable but fruitless wishful thinking.
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The anticipation may be wishful thinking, but health groups believe a final rule is imminent.
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He sees eliminating taco trucks as a wishful step toward eliminating immigrant livelihoods — and neighborhoods.
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This was yet another case of wishful thinking that the DPRK problem would solve itself.
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"To some degree, I think that's wishful thinking," the "Mad Money" host admitted on Friday.
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This wasn't just wishful thinking, or extreme denial; my worldview made perfect sense to me.
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Their garish melodramas and dark conspiracies have taken on the rosy glow of wishful thinking.
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It's wishful thinking that will make regional tensions worse, if not lead to outright conflict.
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Yes, I know, some of my predictions sound like wishful thinking — and perhaps they are.
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The grim prognosis, "debunks the wishful thinking that they will outgrow it," Dr. Michalsky said.
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But I'd urge everyone who disdains reflexive partisanship to avoid the lure of wishful thinking.
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But running the tables is not a surefire game plan - it's wishful thinking at best.
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And I worry that we may be falling prey to wishful thinking about marijuana's effects.
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That might be wishful thinking, but a little bit of sun will do that to you.
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It's mostly wishful thinking, though, as I likely won't have time in between upcoming work trips.
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Previous efforts to model human vision made wishful assumptions about the architecture of the visual cortex.
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That is wishful thinking: parties adapt; Democrats have already spent decades reckoning with declining union power.
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I think it has been wishful thinking, and the President is overstating, or overestimating his leverage.
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" Last year, facing mounting evidence, Del Naja stated that the claim was, "Wishful thinking I think.
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So our wishful thinking was wrong, but now it&aposs pretty hard to undo all that.
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Maybe it's just wishful thinking on our part, but we reckon this romantic pairing's got legs.
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Other times the anti-scientific ideas ensue out of wishful thinking, or even a desperate hope.
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To expect Republicans to actually do this is wishful thinking to the point of being corny.
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The desire to change majors shouldn't be dismissed as wishful thinking or a waste of time.
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And it's wishful thinking, like the long, comical wait for Trump to "pivot" during the campaign.
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It would be better if those choices were informed by sober realism rather than wishful thinking.
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It is time to abandon wishful thinking and get serious about deterring a nuclear North Korea.
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Yet it's worth asking how much of this is reality and how much is wishful thinking.
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But we all must remain focused on the world as it is rather than wishful thinking.
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Giphy Fake news is rising on the "disempowered" left, at least partly because of wishful thinking.
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It's hard to know what to take seriously, and what to write off as wishful thinking.
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It's eloquent and moving, but to me, at least, it seems a little forced and wishful.
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Last year, Mr. Trump was accused of relying on "wishful thinking" to make his budget balance.
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But for now, a union appears to be wishful thinking: too many legal and logistical hurdles.
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But this plan seems poorly conceived, too dependent on military action and fueled by wishful thinking.
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The idea that antislavery sentiments dominated New England and flowed inevitably from it is wishful thinking.
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" But the notion felt so wishful, he recalled, "You had to say it in hushed tones.
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It is wishful thinking that they would be free of this commercial intrusion while at school.
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But this violent desire to erase a life in a native language is only wishful thinking.
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The expectation that backlash could be limited by decree has shown itself to be wishful thinking.
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Voting for Macron is purely wishful thinking that he can somehow morph into a different person.
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And "Wishful Drinking," Carrie Fisher's cathartic one-woman Broadway show recording for TV, is on HBO.
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In her 2009 memoir Wishful Drinking, Fisher wrote about her difficult relationship with the Star Wars franchise.
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This is wishful thinking, confusing what activists are hankering for with what marginal Democratic voters might want.
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But young people like Rowlands and her supporters are a testament to how wishful that thinking is.
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Alternatively, of course, that kind of thinking could be nothing more than wishful thinking from Clinton supporters.
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In Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic, she turns discomfort into humor, but here, she turns humor into discomfort.
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On the right, the instinct to see Trump as a normal Republican mostly springs from wishful thinking.
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It may be that, when it comes to politics, wishful thinking plays a large part for investors.
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But he thinks there is just too much for it to be a coincidence or wishful thinking.
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Take this "Aaron De La Cruz x Oath Men's Tshirt," just $4.99 down from a wishful $28.
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But it's extremely common for directors to blue-sky projects without moving past the wishful-thinking stage.
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Moving to Canada is more difficult than it seems Immigrating to Canada takes more than wishful thinking.
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Without evidence that this can or will occur, this is a definition of wishful (or magical) thinking.
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To the 8 AM chart's detractors, its popularity is the result of confirmation bias and wishful thinking.
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The latter may smack of wishful thinking, but when it passed, parliamentarians in Barcelona stood to clap.
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"It's wishful thinking, a whaleman imagining that he'd captured whales on that particular day," Mr. Dyer said.
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We must act now and not be deluded by wishful thinking that renewables are the sole answer.
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Still, it will take more than noblesse oblige and wishful inattention to save higher ed in America.
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It is wishful thinking to believe that the proposed tax cuts will result in a bigger economy.
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And it is an idea that has always been more wishful thinking than on-the-ground reality.
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This is all wishful thinking from what has become a shrinking and broken down regional political party.
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Some people close to the effort said Trump was relying on "wishful thinking" to manage the crisis.
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This may seem like wishful thinking right now, but we're going to give it a try anyway.
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Policymakers engage in a great deal of wishful thinking because they are trying to get something done.
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No amount of wishful thinking, or even the possibility of reduced American sanctions, will change this reality.
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Any notion that national feeling is a thing of the past was revealed as pious wishful thinking.
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Like much of Rojava at the time, the border crossing was part reality and part wishful thinking.
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Her mental health plan demonstrated the triumph of science and compassion over political correctness and wishful thinking.
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I wish I had known that before I had succumbed to wishful thinking and tried them all.
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Someone suggested Tojo, the legendary chef at Tojo's sushi restaurant, though that might have been wishful thinking.
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However, that sounds like wishful thinking in the world of Washington's distractions, transatlantic distrust and Iranian outrage.
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The first President George Bush still has the best description for wishful thinking about taxes: voodoo economics.
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" And when nothing came on Wednesday, Stone tweeted, "Libs thinking Assange will stand down are wishful thinking.
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"The notion that anyone can predict what might become a huge hit is wishful thinking," he said.
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Grand predictions of dozens of defecting Republican electors by anti-Trump forces proved to be wishful thinking.
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This turn of events has sparked a months-long bout of wishful thinking in Republican Party circles.
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The audio is vivid and stark and cuts through that fog of wishful thinking and self-deception.
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Well it might help if the media stopped their non-stop war on Trump, that&aposs wishful thinking.
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The most recent speculation was "wishful thinking from an advertising conference," the Netflix spokesman told CNN Business Wednesday.
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Wishful Drinking, also available to stream from HBO, is a look at their relationship through only Fisher's eyes.
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So if it really is a bunch of wishful illusions and incorrect assumptions, how do we avoid that?
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But pleas for a quiet life may be wishful thinking as Høiby doesn't shy away from social media.
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Was it all just wishful thinking on our part, fan fiction we came up with in a dream?
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But consumer advocates say that's wishful thinking, and the data on the costs of consolidation is very clear.
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I've got one final obligation to uphold, as per her autobiography Wishful Drinking: Rest in peace, Carrie Fisher.
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We have some speculation, thanks to photos released by HBO, book backstory and a dash of wishful thinking.
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Waiting for an absolutely secure system before moving on to online or electronic voting would be wishful thinking.
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This is wishful thinking, but we hope Gravity Rush 2 gets promoted as this fall's big exclusive release.
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At its core, Mr Trump's pitch is simplistic, chin-jutting, isolationism with a strong dose of wishful thinking.
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It would be wishful thinking to assume that America's shale-led energy revolution would subside any time soon.
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His attorneys should not engage in wishful thinking but should be brutally realistic with themselves and their client.
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"It was almost as if some of the reporting was not reporting, it was wishful thinking," Kennedy said.
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"There is a lot of wishful thinking in the press, because they don't like Steve," this source said.
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" He additionally tweeted two days before the emails' release, "Libs thinking Assange will stand down are wishful thinking.
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Acquisitions or mergers involving the staples companies themselves are a constant topic of wishful chatter on Wall Street.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Aviation's dreams of a green future rest on second-hand cooking oil and wishful thinking.
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"Wishful thinking and ignorance were the key drivers of the early decision-making about the conflict," Bergen wrote.
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"Of course, the story is wishful thinking on the part of the left-wing media," the post continues.
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Elected officials promised workers solid pensions years ago, on the basis of wishful thinking rather than realistic expectations.
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Speculations that it was a lone-wolf attack are wishful at best and harmful in the long run.
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They could have assumed that the liberal Times was engaging in wishful thinking to warp a conservative perspective.
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"I don't know what part of it is wishful thinking, or having fun with the music," he adds.
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I don't know, wishful thinking, but it kept it interesting for us that day, we're sure of that.
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The administration's budget plan reflects wishful thinking, not a serious effort to address the long-run fiscal imbalance.
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This untruth, a miscommunication he failed to correct, was born of wistful, wishful desire rather than malicious intent.
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Until it does, until he is, it's all wishful thinking, like a reimagined version of the 2003 draft.
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" But Mr. Cuomo doubled down on that stance again on Tuesday, calling hopes for major legislation "wishful thinking.
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"A lot of the hopes that Tillerson would be a moderating force are probably wishful thinking," he said.
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Warren claims her wealth tax proposal will raise 1.4 percent of GDP, but once again, that's wishful thinking.
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It was only later that I realized this was wishful thinking, and that the snow was just snow.
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That might just be standard liberal wishful thinking, but Trump is an incumbent and incumbents are inherently boring.
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Given the Mets' recent history with injuries, relying on players like that could prove to be wishful thinking.
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Pommer suggested that might just be wishful thinking, given some previous cases involving mainstream athletes earning substantial sums.
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This can be a good thing for many people, but these expectations are more wishful thinking than reality.
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But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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They'll make tactical strikes, of course, but expecting an influx of free agents to change everything is wishful thinking.
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Over the next year, we'll learn whether there is reason for that optimism or whether it was wishful thinking.
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Wishful Drinking (2008): Fisher's first memoir was based on her one-woman Off-Broadway show of the same name.
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That last one—with Williams sitting down to eat—comes more from wishful thinking and marketing than from reality.
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Amid this tangle of evasion, half-promises and wishful thinking, some policymakers have embraced a technique called gender budgeting.
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Obviously, this is all a lot of guesswork based on the rumor mill, expert insight and some wishful thinking.
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Sir Tony Brenton's letter on engaging with Russia is a classic demonstration of ivory-tower wishful thinking (December 2000rd).
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In her autobiographical book Wishful Drinking, Fisher detailed some of the troubles she encountered while filming with Star Wars.
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Now, of course, all of us in the reality-based community know that "dissident feminism" was largely wishful thinking.
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The WWE's popularity suggests their main hope, that voters will tire of Mr Trump's grim clowning, may be wishful.
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This isn't the first time Watson has been targeted by a plot that turned out to be wishful thinking.
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Whether that was real or a figment of Lenny's wishful thinking is left up to the audience to decide.
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But it may be wishful thinking by Trump's critics to believe that he's tugging the president in another direction.
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But there is no real alternative to trying, other than wishful thinking that our good luck can last forever.
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It would be helpful to draw several assumptions from these developments although some may be more wishful than others.
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The pollsters and pundits may very well dismiss the suggestion of a Trump victory in Pennsylvania as wishful thinking.
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You don't think there's a bit of wishful thinking in the Beltway, for nothing if not a new narrative?
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Like other founding myths, this one contains a fair measure of wishful thinking: Plato was no fan of democracy.
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Wishful thinking describes people's tendency to predict their preferred candidate to win, a behavior that harms individual forecast accuracy.
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Prices in their old Redwood City development have continued to soar, prompting some wishful dreams among those who remain.
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But budgeting for a big cut in SSDI spending by tightening work requirements is no more than wishful thinking.
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Given the consistency of Xi's messaging and actions over the past five years, such hopes are just wishful thinking.
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What he has offered as a path to greatness caters to the wishful thinking of a minority of Americans.
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"That might be wishful thinking, without some kind of incentive through more government research and development funding," he said.
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"The daughter of famous parents," she wrote in her memoir "Wishful Drinking," which originated as a one-woman show.
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If she hoped that a delay would allow people to cool off and move on, that is wishful thinking.
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Small problem: Acosta's description of Trump's remarks came closer to his verbatim words than her tortured, wishful version did.
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All in all, according to Mazarr, a "truly astonishing degree of wishful thinking" permeated the upper echelons of government.
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But there is a strain of wishful thinking in the idea that neologisms, revamped grammars, could effect better living.
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It seemed like wishful thinking that any of the four witnesses Senator Chuck Schumer asked for recently would testify.
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The myth was founded on truth, but inflated by a mix of misinformation, wishful thinking and lust for gold.
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But if terrorism moves the conversation the way it did last time, that may prove to be wishful thinking.
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Of course, it's probably wishful thinking to believe that this attitude shift is an actual harbinger of the Absopocalypse.
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But if the meeting did not provide much in the way of solutions, it was rich in wishful thinking.
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And, if the current standoff in Washington is any indication, one that seems more like wishful thinking than reality.
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There were some moments of moral turmoil for our wishful hitman, but they came in and out of focus.
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Pascal seems to concede that trying to believe is a matter of wishful thinking, self-deception or self-manipulation.
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The executive order is titled "Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address Family Separation," and that's not just wishful thinking.
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" Others seem like wishful thinking: "Cleaver (Eldridge) for President"; "Barr (Roseanne) for President 2012"; "Vote Socialist Workers, Camejo for President.
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"The backstop is a necessary guarantee, based on legal certainty, not just wishful thinking," he wrote in the Sunday Times.
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The pair's relationship was detailed at great length in Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, available for streaming on HBOGO.
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That is probably wishful thinking, but it suggests that morale in America's oil industry is recovering after the price crash.
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Sure it may be wishful thinking for ProtonMail to anticipate a steady flow of US signups in the coming years.
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The choice is ultimately not between an Anglophone Europe and a truly polyglot Europe but between wishful thinking and realism.
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But to employ somebody like that and not expect to experience a backlash when he strikes again is wishful thinking.
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The idea that the sector could just be resting before its next move higher seemed like wishful thinking to him.
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For those who keep hoping Republicans in Congress will abandon their president and fulfill their constitutional role, it's wishful thinking.
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Every seat is taken, so much for all my wishful thinking that I'd have an empty seat next to me!
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As a battery maker poised to profit from the shift, Wang's guesstimate is certainly self-interested, and probably wishful thinking.
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" Steele added, "There was a lot of wishful thinking, including from me, that he will make a turn, a pivot.
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It is "wishful thinking ... that large-scale land deals can be beneficial to local communities if done properly," she said.
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It may be wishful thinking, but isn't it time we got Dany out of Mereen's troubles and into the fight?
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"It's marvellous to be home again and hopefully we won't have to do any more travelling this year… Wishful thinking!"
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It's hard to find the motivation to focus on the positive when positivity seems like nothing more than wishful thinking.
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"This is wishful thinking replacing responsible budgeting," says Maya MacGuineas, who directs the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
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Strong and stable leadership across Europe for now seems wishful thinking and is leaving a bitter taste in European's mouths.
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But Sears' creditors, including landlords and vendors, have called such a plan "nothing more than wishful thinking" in court filings.
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The idea that Mr. Trump will quit if his all-important poll numbers fall far enough seems like wishful thinking.
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Conservative economist Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute called it "fairy dust" and assailed much of it as wishful thinking.
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IEA officials also say there is also some wishful thinking about how quickly the transition to cleaner energy could happen.
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"Postcards From the Edge" and "Wishful Drinking" also rose to the top 10 on Amazon and were out of stock.
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And these did not appear to be idle, wishful considerations suddenly wandering from Woods's brain to his unusually unwary lips.
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The "metal/punk will be good again!" line is just wishful thinking, a way of plucking at nonexistent silver linings.
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But its persistence may be because of wishful thinking — it's nice to believe that everyone has this amazing unlocked potential.
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I'll continue to hope that those Kentucky voters have their optimism rewarded, but it's a deeply wishful form of optimism.
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I don't trust Kim Jong Un, and it is wishful thinking that Kim Jong Un would abandon his nuclear program.
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There was some made-up wishful thinking in retrospect: Her unfavorables were "priced-in," I heard, which isn't a thing.
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The pivot, or softening, whatever you want to call it is just part and parcel of that same wishful thinking.
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Experts and researchers are increasingly calling out "superfoods" for what they really are—something between wishful thinking and really effective marketing.
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A third model, which is more wishful thinking than full-on rumor for now, has the company releasing a 5G model.
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I take a Tylenol P.M. around 10:8003 and crash, hoping that it'll be the magic cure (wishful thinking, I know!).
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When Celeste defends Perry to Dr. Reisman, she sounds a lot like Jane in her moment of "nice guy" wishful thinking.
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Perhaps one day we'll see an iPhone with no charging port at all, though that's still wishful thinking at this stage.
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Wishful thinking, perhaps, but given that Aquarius rules politics, this eclipse could expose even more evidence related to those Russia investigations.
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"If you think public schools can solve this problem alone it is wishful thinking," says George Werner, Liberia's minister of education.
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Perhaps the industry is again engaged in wishful thinking, declaring AR as the future emperor and dressing it in imaginary clothes.
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"It isn't trickery, wishful thinking or all in the mind," Ms. Marchant writes, when explaining the biology of the placebo effect.
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But still, there's no denying that Fixer Upper was a wholesome show that captivated home improvement warriors (and the wishful thinkers).
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Otherwise, naïve sentiment and wishful belief can lead to an anthropomorphism that denies the grizzly bear its essential identity—its wildness.
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"Any assumption that ending direct federal funding frees up $3 to $4 billion beginning in 2025... is wishful thinking," Martin said.
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If that did not sound wishful enough, he also called on North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile programmes.
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If our consciousness isn't inextricably tied to our bodies, we have no good way to know that, apart from wishful thinking.
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Oriental Romanticism was, obviously, a wishful and gross distortion of reality and remains a bane to true understanding of Eastern cultures.
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She has written three memoirs about her experiences: Wishful Drinking, Shockaholic, and The Princess Diarist, the last released just this year.
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Debt makes people more prone to fraud of any sort, perhaps because a mix of desperation and anxiety encourages wishful thinking.
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He said Libya's target of 1.25 million bpd was "wishful thinking," saying 850,000-900,000 bpd by year-end was more realistic.
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That may just be wishful thinking since back in April, Moriarty revealed that she had been approached about a season 2.
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Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but at least someone thinks he could be sharing the icing to brighten his fellow passengers' commute.
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" Another senior GOP aide said rumors the Senate will be gone after next week are "the wishful thinking of some members.
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Others had less of a claim on anything weather-related but made a wishful leap into the conversation all the same.
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However to think so, as evidently Prime Minister Theresa May seems to think, would be to engage in highly-wishful thinking.
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I'd indulged in some wishful thinking (as I did basically all the time), but I didn't really own any sexy underwear.
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"The White House's attempt to manufacture Republican disunity is engaging in wishful thinking and confusing courtesy with weakness," Ms. Severino said.
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If we are serious about reducing emissions, we cannot do the wishful thinking that the economy will double every 35 years.
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" Weld said talk of him ditching Johnson, the presidential nominee, is "wishful thinking on the part of the two-party duopoly.
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In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of personal optimization.
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She previously starred in an autobiographical one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, that was also turned into a book and HBO special.
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They have called the idea that Sears could be successful again as "nothing more than wishful thinking" in a court filing.
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Ms. Fisher published "Wishful Drinking" in 2008, a book that grew out of a one-woman show of the same name.
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That includes providing perspective and suitable challenges to bureaucratic pronouncements, exaggerated claims and wishful thinking, regardless of where such things originate.
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It's hard to rid ourselves of ideas that are little more than wishful thinking or to end policies that don't work.
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That proximity suggests either a wishful denial of Calhoun's legacy or a level of irony not typically found among municipal planners.
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Behind that probably is an assumption and wishful thinking that the U.S. is in disarray, Europe is feckless, and so on.
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Until this moment, Johnson's life and career have been a kind of monument to wishful thinking—of ridiculous expectations shockingly fulfilled.
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"I still think it's going to be a long series," said Arseneault, who also acknowledged that it might be wishful thinking.
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But it's wishful thinking to convince yourself that he will do anything other than run for a second term in 2020.
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The wishful hope for a postracial America couldn't withstand recurring eruptions of institutional racism, provoking a revival in black-protest culture.
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Wishful views of wealth — skyscrapers, stadiums, and private jets landing at nearby Boeing Field — are visible through a tangle of trees.
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The same capacity for wishful self-delusion must be what keeps us going to bistros that are nothing like anything in France.
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But coal is the bedrock of affordable electricity, and it will remain so, no matter how much wishful thinking by environmental activists.
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We have only a vague sense of what the thing looks like, formed by adding wishful thinking to annoyingly vague teaser images.
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Here are some of the best/worst pranks that tricked people into believing they were real — and preyed upon people's wishful thinking.
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Even if it's wishful thinking, may we all end up with such good luck, incredible shoes, a nice home, and amazing friends.
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These are not wild and wishful ideas thought up by pipe dreamers working in a concept laboratory isolated from the real world.
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By consulting existing maps and getting ground truth in person, they had made sure that these weren't phantom structures or wishful thinking.
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While you are one of the most optimistic signs in the zodiac, Sagittarius, today you'll find that wishful thinking really annoys you.
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But here's my point: Complacency about getting the votes of people who went for Bernie in the primaries is dangerous, wishful thinking.
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The AK party allowed wishful thinking about Islamic brotherhood, pan-Turkic ties and cocking a snook at the West to outweigh pragmatism.
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You didn't delay for the right reasons, it really was self-defeating and it was full of a lot of wishful thinking.
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This is wishful thinking: I bet Netscape told itself the same thing about Navigator the day Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with Windows.
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But we hardly ever saw Good Maryland this season, and it was wishful thinking to assume they'd suddenly appear for very long.
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"In my view, it's the only physics that I know and trust to not involve wishful thinking and magical fields," said Woodward.
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Essentially saying that their desire for relief was wishful (and frankly, silly) puts a pretty fine point on her shortcomings a candidate.
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A lot of this week's deal talk seems more like wishful thinking among Twitter investors desperate for a LinkedIn-style exit strategy.
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But wishful thinking is not a substitute for rigorous analysis, which has been sorely lacking among some of my fellow liberal academics.
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It captures the bizarre blend of wishful thinking, clownish self-importance, and cold calculation that characterized many of the Nazis' powerful enablers.
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Professor Winner coined the term "mythinformation," the wishful thinking that with open access to technology, the world will become a better place.
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Warren and others are agitating for a government option for real-time payments is merely an example of wishful thinking obscuring reality.
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One of the problems in recognizing an unfolding disaster is that there is always a chance the wishful plan could actually succeed.
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But if you think our system is deeply dysfunctional, then saying we're going to reform it sounds like wishful thinking to me.
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This is proof that if you write down your dreams, they become a reality — the power of wishful thinking and all that.
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It was a tale enveloped in half-truths, exaggerations and the wishful thinking of the National Geographic Society, which sponsored the expedition.
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" Tillerson added that "America's future [should] be fact-based — not based on wishful thinking, not hoped-for outcomes made in shallow promises.
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It's this adaptability that allows the trope to remain alive, but it's the wishful thinking that makes it so relatable and watchable.
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But my plan to start receiving messages and event invites in the cozy interior of my actual email inbox was wishful thinking.
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He had long wanted to go to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but now that felt like wishful thinking.
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City leaders hope that delaying the legislation will cool public anger, but leading opposition figures and protesters say that is wishful thinking.
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But my wishful thinking was that it was just mom being a little bit older, she's stressed out, my dad was ill.
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Mr. Musk promises investors that Tesla is going to start making more cars and profits any day now, but that's wishful thinking.
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In a sense, Mr. Biden is offering something of a 2016 do-over, coated in patriotism and wishful thinking: Remove Mr. Trump.
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Not that the Kering chief wanted another Céline (that was wishful thinking in the fashion world, in mourning after Ms. Philo's departure).
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It is wishful thinking to imagine that these reforms can happen quickly, not least because they involve handing more power to technocrats.
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But this wishful liberal talking point has consistently failed to account for the strong patterns of political behavior within each voting demographic.
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Mr. Giuliani compressed the digital gases of the president's suspicions and wishful theories into what is now the molten core of impeachment.
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This bullish outlook is wishful thinking because it requires a reversal of the current trend and this reversal is a low probability.
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As foreign policy philosophies go, "Let them!" is unusually laissez-faire, bordering on wishful thinking when it comes to the Middle East.
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Add to that a U.S. presidential election next year, and any bankers expecting a sustained boom are probably guilty of wishful thinking.
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No Labels has long been criticized by writers like Vox's Matt Yglesias for its wishful thinking about the state of American politics.
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In the photos, it almost looks like the driver is not holding the steering wheel, but that may just have been wishful thinking.
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This seems to be wishful thinking by members of the so-called Resistance who are lost in their fever dreams of Trump hatred.
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This is Fisher's first Grammy — she was also nominated for a Grammy in 2010 for the audio recording of her book Wishful Drinking.
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But until this mystery is finally solved, it's a safe bet that people will continue to point their wishful thinking fingers at aliens.
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This was never terribly reassuring, but it was the source of a lot of wishful thinking that Trump could be educated or contained.
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This wishful thinking did not survive its first reality check when Greece lost access to the financial markets in the spring of 2010.
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Ever since his election back in November commentators from Obama to India have been describing his presidency as an exercise in wishful thinking.
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Pompeo's proclamation is wishful thinking from an administration mired in scandal and dysfunction, as they hope to project a (false) image of victory.
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But our overarching question is whether this is just wishful thinking in a world as off balance as ours seems to be today.
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Expectations were a little higher for homeowners than renters and higher yet for recent buyers — which appears to reflect a wishful-thinking bias.
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What went wrong after that is a matter of debate, but probably involved a combination of blunders, poor planning and some wishful thinking.
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Unfortunately, these rationalizations now look like little more than wishful thinking, as Fedor's next opponent has been announced, and the news isn't great.
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WISHFUL THINKING IT'S CALLED FASHION, SWEATY I always have complicated feelings about Korine's flicks, but I could really go for Panera right now.
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Hopefully this kind of robotic lawyer can help reduce costly legal fees for those of us hiring lawyers — but that's probably wishful thinking.
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Mr. Cornyn told reporters that it was "wishful thinking" to expect Mr. Putin to agree to the extradition of the 12 Russian agents.
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To win, forget wishful thinking and build to the number needed to win assuming you lose 10 points the days before the election.
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"There's more than a little corn and wishful thinking in the high-minded moments in 'The Post,'" Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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He shares his 7-part strategy for thriving during a prolonged crisis — and says a quick recovery from the coronavirus is 'wishful thinking.
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He shares his 7-part strategy for thriving during a prolonged crisis — and says a quick recovery from the coronavirus is 'wishful thinking.
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If you think the business idea is a pipe dream and the notion of future earnings is wishful thinking, don't loan the money.
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Advocates for banks and credit unions are beaming as Washington starts to pick apart Dodd-Frank, following years of pressure and wishful thinking.
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Those who are hoping that America's "Deep State" will contain Mr Trump — or even force his resignation — are probably guilty of wishful thinking.
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Though it might sound like wishful thinking, dozens of studies show that imagining your ideal future can actually boost your levels of optimism.
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President Vladimir Putin is anti-Western, therefore he must be something of a liberator, or at least an ally, the wishful thinking goes.
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Weiss fails to realize that she herself is an example of the wishful thinking about Judaism that is ubiquitous among American Jewish liberals.
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"Dawn" was a wishful parable of decolonization and counterinsurgency, concerned with the competing but equally legitimate claims of two tribes occupying adjacent territory.
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They were, as the journalist Sebastian Junger wrote about American optimism in Afghanistan, simply inviting you to join a conspiracy of wishful thinking.
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Advocates for banks and credit unions are beaming as Washington starts to pick apart Dodd-Frank, following years of pressure and wishful thinking.
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But whether the plan is "build a wall" or "close Guantánamo," if Congress does not go along, it can amount to wishful thinking.
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He seems like a man about to burn out or be kicked out — but of course that could just be my wishful thinking.
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" Bannon also said China's attempt to forge a two-tier deal to end the yearlong trade war with the U.S. is "wishful thinking.
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"The Florida Project" is honest about the limits of benevolence, and about the wishful thinking that can cloud our understanding of the world.
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Multiple K Streeters think it is wishful thinking and a way for lawmakers to keep asking donors to cut checks for their races.
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The company's value was as high as $9 billion before it was discovered that much of its technology was more wishful thinking than real.
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Trump's wish for others to play along with his drama is "wishful thinking," the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper said in an editorial.
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Is its promise of immortality a scam that draws in wishful thinkers, or is it actually possible that one day, humans might conquer death?
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"At this stage, a 2016 rate hike is wishful thinking given the headwinds that currently face the UK economy," said Thomas Bloomfield at 4CAST.
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Any hope that President Trump would either abandon or at least cut back on his tweetstorms in the New Year was just wishful thinking.
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Still, the suggestion that the network made the decision to cancel Roseanne because they saw it as a moral responsibility is a wishful one.
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The expectation for a rate cut following the minutes is "probably just wishful thinking," said Robert Frick, corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union.
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The internet has changed somewhat since the invasion of The Bloody Board, though it would be wishful thinking to say it's a friendlier place.
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But it may be wishful thinking, since only days before this tweet, the cast told Comic-Con attendees they had not received scripts yet.
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I still think that it's also an important discussion, because the convenient life would be wishful thinking for many people in every society still.
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The 14-day rule was agreed upon in Canada in 1995, when the idea of growing an embryo for that long was wishful thinking.
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A big Comic-Con panel would be the perfect place to announce The Winds of Winter (although that's probably wishful thinking on my part).
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DERYCK RHODESRome As your review of Max Boot's book on the Vietnam war observed, counterinsurgency was tried and eventually failed ("Wishful thinking", January 20th).
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She wrote and performed her own autobiographical one-woman stage show, Wishful Drinking, which appeared on Broadway, and later adapted it into a book.
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Such wrenching economic shifts would be needed "to make a zero-emissions future an inevitability rather than wishful thinking," they wrote in the journal.
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It seems that all the talk about Trump's treatment of women turning women voters away from him may have just been some wishful thinking.
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"The overbearing reality of harmony within the Presidency will not change because of wishful scenario-building," Charamba said in an emailed response to questions.
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Because he didn't offer anything in the way of evidence that Netflix is introducing the feature soon, his statements could simply be wishful thinking.
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So I know that the Republicans are engaging in a lot of wishful thinking, but this is not anything people should be worried about.
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Unfortunately, Step 6 is wishful thinking on my part, but it's part of the reason this high school graduate's senior quote rings so true.
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There is also a sense, wishful thinking perhaps, that Democratic investigations may not be as politically damaging as some close to the president fear.
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But as a practical Republican and stubborn optimist — not an easy feat in the current climate — I figure a little wishful thinking can't hurt.
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For now, hopes of Pence moving up to the Oval Office — whether those hopes are held by Republicans or Democrats — are mostly wishful thinking.
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"The Administration's suggested policy of regime change in Iran reflects wishful thinking and a flawed interpretation of intelligence about Iran's vulnerability," the signatories wrote.
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He added that he believed total civilian deaths were much higher than the administration's estimate because of officials' wishful thinking, rather than deliberate deception.
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It's all very well and good when people go on about chasing your dreams, but surely all that stuff is just wishful thinking, right?
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It was the height of wishful thinking in 19553 to imagine that the Court would undergo a conversion in the case of Homer Plessy.
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Queen Marie, the king's younger, second wife, is a wishful thinker who supports Berenger's refusal to face the inevitable even as his powers fail.
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But that hasn't stopped the wishful thinking from some who bristled at Trump's attacks on a Hispanic judge, worrying he had gone too far.
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Second, it is no longer mere wishful thinking that Trump either won't serve out his term or won't be on the ballot next year.
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And while staying under the radar might feel like wishful thinking, other equally prominent companies have managed to do this successfully in the past.
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We don't know if this vision of a peaceful future life with Michonne is a prophecy of events to come or a wishful fantasy.
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Wishful thinking predominates in Nick Hamm's drama "The Journey," an imaginary account of a conversation between former giants in Northern Ireland's Troubles: the Rev.
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Maybe it's wishful thinking, but an awful lot of fans like McGregor, and they are willing to put up their money to prove it.
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The argument feels wishful and familiar, bringing to mind challenges to Obama's birth or religion from fearful, frustrated or opportunistic voices on the right.
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But when you introduce the accountability of group exercise, especially with modern tools, wishful thinking is more likely to turn into a practical habit.
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The timelines Musk gives himself on the products he makes are almost always wishful thinking, and not all of his ideas work in reality.
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Opposition members said they expected Mr. Kabila to sign the agreement once a new government was formed, but others dismissed that as wishful thinking.
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But it is wishful thinking to believe that a signed petition blocking these programs will somehow limit the likelihood or deadliness of tomorrow's wars.
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" Weld said earlier this month that talk of him leaving the Libertarian ticket is "wishful thinking on the part of the two-party duopoly.
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"I know that the Republicans are engaging in some wishful thinking, but this is not something that people should be worried about," she added.
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Yet sometimes it's hard to tell if that's a product of sheer wishful thinking — a desperation to believe renewal is coming — or actual merit.
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Yes, all that Quebec talk is probably wishful thinking, and maybe even a publicity plot to squeeze more arena upgrade out of your town.
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While that sentence certainly sounds like some sort of wishful thinking for a dream series, it's actually the plot of Netflix's latest Turn Up Charlie.
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It just isn't happening, despite some wishful thinking on the part of Democrats like Chuck Schumer who believe voters will be incensed by Republican obstructionism.
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I think the thing they get wrong most often is that it's a very simplistic worldview and that it depends upon wishful thinking and faith.
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One EU diplomat dismissed this as "wishful thinking", saying failure to lock in ties with the bloc now could come back to haunt the Swiss.
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It's unclear if there was some private apology sent to Hannity or if Hannity baked some wishful thinking into his reading of the leaked memo.
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You sew up their mouths, forcing their lips into peaceful, somber lines that reflect the wishful thinking of the people whom the dead left behind.
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You might make assumptions about them based more on wishful thinking than reality, and your in-person meeting may not live up to those expectations.
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Originally, I thought that the perfectly clean install of Windows 10 64-bit was going to be bug-free (which is wishful thinking, but still).
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We really want something to be true, and our wishful thinking clouds our judgement (like wanting there to be a cure for an incurable disease).
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In a dream world the panel would also include director Ava DuVernay talking about her forthcoming New Gods adaptation, but maybe that's just wishful thinking.
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And House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Greg Walden insists the outreach will make a difference, telling reporters yesterday: That might be wishful thinking, though.
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Fred Hof, a former adviser on Syria at the State Department, brands Mr Kerry's efforts as "the sad, pointless diplomacy of desperation and wishful thinking".
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Some of that may be wishful thinking by Stutzman, who has long been a vocal member of the "Never Trump" wing of the Republican Party.
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He answered with a quick aside, which elicited laughter in the court but could have been wishful thinking: "I probably won't be involved," he said.
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Any assumption that ending direct federal funding frees up $3-4 billion beginning in 2025 to use on other NASA exploration initiatives is wishful thinking.
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Lam, the city's leader, said the protesters were engaging in "wishful thinking" if they thought they could pressure the government into making concessions with violence.
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The appearances of Brandon's fantasy watchdog lend "Kicks" a hallucinatory gloss, infusing the film with a pathos symbolized by Brandon's wishful longing for flashy footwear.
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Maybe this is mythmaking or wishful thinking, but having spent a few days here in the dark I prefer to regard it as hardheaded realism.
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But thanks to Devel subcontractor Steve Morris Engines (SME), we have evidence that this hot rod is more than just an exercise in wishful thinking.
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To reserve the Manhattan Sky Suite and secure the ultimate in New York City indulgence, potential guests and wishful thinkers can call (877) 000-9716.
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Russ Schriefer, an adviser to Mr. Romney's campaign, said Mr. Trump was engaging in the "wishful thinking" of a candidate cornered on the electoral map.
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Unfortunately, the statistics prove that the crisis is very real, and wishful thinking is a luxury that our country cannot afford at times like these.
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Both explanations involve a lot of wishful thinking, fueled by a lack of understanding about the inertia in the physical, technological and political-economic systems.
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Warren has moved too far to the left, and the claim by hardcore progressives that only a true believer can win is utter wishful thinking.
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Janey is the daughter of Sully's married ex-lover, Ruth, and possibly, though it may be only a matter of Ruth's wishful thinking, Sully's daughter.
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Instead, Americans should seek a fact-based society, rather than one "based on wishful thinking ... [and] hoped-for outcomes made in shallow promises," Tillerson said.
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This is admirable, but by the end it also feels halfhearted, as what looked like a dystopian fantasy turns into an exercise in wishful thinking.
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We should heed those lessons, not burn them down in a fit of Jacobin rage or wave them off with wishful thinking about self-regulation.
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"I think this one," Mr. Schwarzman said, although it was hard not to wonder if this guess was a measure of reality or wishful thinking.
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As much as the West may engage in wishful thinking about a revolution, the Kim family regime has survived far longer than almost anyone predicted.
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This late mystical development comes across as curiously wishful thinking in an otherwise cleareyed book, an oversimplification of problems we've come to know up close.
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Investors hoping the sudden volatility would stop and the stock market would get back to its bull run are probably realizing that was wishful thinking.
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A Chinese newspaper described Trump's belief that a recent fall in Chinese stocks was a sign he was winning the trade war as "wishful thinking".
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The idea of effortless beauty can seem like wishful thinking at best — but if there's a single practice that comes close, it's the low bun.
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The pattern repeats itself now in the president's budget, where he again takes the path of wishful thinking without showing much commitment to shared sacrifice.
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With no artist statement forthcoming from our Stone Age ancestors, the show takes on a strange admixture of science and guesswork, paleoanthropology and wishful thinking.
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"There is such a thing as chatter and wishful chatter," said another Silicon Valley source with ties to national Republican presidential campaigns and the tech community.
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Almost 1,000 people have expressed interest in the event, and participants, whether actual or wishful, are having a ball sharing their ideas on the event's page.
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It was a jaw-dropping move, one that had been suggested for weeks but always seemed too big to ever actually be more than wishful thinking.
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The filing, which is remarkably readable for a legal argument from a bunch of academics, says that betting on Dish to compete is fundamentally wishful thinking.
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She was a novelist and memoirist, penning books such as Postcards from the Edge, Wishful Drinking, and The Princess Diarist, for which Fisher just finished touring.
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Sure, a lot of people guessed that the Starks were manipulating Littlefinger, rather than vice versa, but those theories were mostly wishful thinking until the finale.
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To understand the limits, or the pure wishful thinking, of these programs, we have to see the binding constraints the U.S policies face in these areas.
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It's the replacement of a reality-based community, as formulated in the years of George W. Bush, with a platform of wishful thinking … backed by nukes.
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Overall, the notion of reverse coattails could be wishful thinking by Republican operatives constantly trying to make sense of such an unpredictable year for their party.
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This is wishful thinking, as Mr Lindner himself has made clear: he has, he told me, no substantive disagreements with the current government's stance on Brexit.
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Although the Kremlin may hope these trends eventually reverse and pro-Russian leaders like former President Viktor Yanukovych come to power again, that's probably wishful thinking.
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The embattled German bank reckons it can hold its own in this regional business with less, but that sounds like wishful thinking given the cutthroat competition.
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A mix of well-earned skepticism and childlike wishful thinking kept the hoax talk going, up until his son Duncan Jones confirmed his death via Twitter.
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But if you want a realistic view, one shaped by experience instead of conjecture and wishful thinking, ask the folks who are actually making the stuff.
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It'd likely be wishful thinking for Origen to deliver a similar performance, but with the right guidance, this group could certainly coalesce into a strong squad.
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Pretending that the Communist Party, which still claims "Mao Zedong thought" as its guiding ideology, has said the last word on the revolution is wishful thinking.
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The wishful story about how the Internet was creating a hyper-democratic "participatory culture" obscures the ways in which it is biased in favor of power.
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" He was privately skeptical of the Suez conflict, which he viewed as post-imperial wishful thinking, a pathetic attempt "to get back what we had lost.
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I also can't see anyone who falls under the celebrity author category winning, which means Atwood's place here is as much wishful thinking as anything else.
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Many of these people may have accurate expectations about the election outcome, since they are less influenced by partisanship and thus less subject to wishful thinking.
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The city remains safe; the lawless crack-and-squeegee days, for all the wishful predictions of Mr. de Blasio's most dogged, doomful critics, have not returned.
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Arthur: I think that's mostly wishful thinking, like the notion that he was going to decline the nomination after proving he could beat the other Republicans.
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I wrote about how climate negotiators there wanted to believe that Trump didn't exist -- but I honestly saw that as wishful thinking, the new climate denial.
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" Philip Kalikman of New York said that editors' assurances that the guidelines would indeed be followed, "rest on a lot of wishful thinking and good intentions.
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The excerpt below draws on the modern-day nostalgist's wishful thinking about the past in a discussion on "fatness" and body image in the 19th century.
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The essential message of the Iraq War history is that wishful thinking and ignorance were the key drivers of the early decision-making about the conflict.
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That, of course, could be wishful thinking, but the divergent policies toward Iran are leading to deeper tensions between the European Union and the Trump administration.
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View more episodes of Business Insider Today on FacebookPresident Donald Trump's response to the unfolding coronavirus pandemic has included a mix of wishful thinking and misinformation.
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When Trump talked up the idea of packing churches on Easter, the source continued, the President knew it was more wishful thinking than a realistic goal.
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Given all the attention paid to "Made in Italy" over the last few years, it seems almost wishful to posit style as an expression of nationality.
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" In a triumph of wishful thinking over data, he adds: "I don't think their support was ever very deep, and it seems to be weakening quickly.
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But maybe that's wishful thinking, because what we've seen over the entire book prior to that moment really suggests that their marriage is likely beyond repair.
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" Ms. Rivlin came to regard complaints from politicians of all stripes as the inevitable price of being what she called a "professional critic of wishful thinking.
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But looking back at the last eight years and forward, with trepidation, at those coming, I've concluded that this desire for political civility is wishful thinking.
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This could all just be wishful thinking, but what's certain is that Blumhouse has once more shown that its formula works perfectly for today's moviegoing audience.
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Proper fits aside, wishful fans didn't find a little red-ribboned Corvette under their Christmas tree: A now-settled G.M. strike has delayed production until February.
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Republicans want to cut taxes by $1.5 trillion — while the government already is running a deficit — and they propose to offset those cuts with wishful thinking.
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But an unenchanted view of generals, as of other human beings, tells us that ambition, wishful thinking and unfounded self-confidence can afflict any of us.
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Such wishful thinking, of course, permeates the present Trump administration, which routinely trashes the science in order to escape the regulatory consequences of accepting the science.
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There was always an element of wishful thinking in Kleinfeld's parallel vision, ignoring as it did the flow of semi-manufactured aluminium products out of China.
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"Fortunately, attempts by the abortion lobby to ratify this amendment are based on wishful thinking," Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said following the vote.
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That could become wishful thinking under a Trump administration proposal that would give restaurants and other businesses complete control over the tips earned by their employees.
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I am wishful that the programs left standing will be there for students like me in the future who are hopeful in reaching the bilingual level.
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With other surveys indicating a growing possibility that Britain will quit the EU, the survey results may be a product of wishful thinking as well as observation.
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That may be a bit of exaggerated wishful thinking on Greene's part, but to carry out the interviewer's metaphor a bit further, it's clearly still early innings.
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That may be wishful thinking (carbon prices have tumbled this year), but even if prices stay where they are, the impact on heavy emitters will be severe.
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At best, a second season of 13 Reasons Why would clearly denote that life goes on after losing someone important, and that simple closure is wishful thinking.
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Of course, this is at best just a theory, and at worse wishful thinking — but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Netflix has a surprise in store.
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Before she reprised her role in The Force Awakens, she was making Wishful Drinking audiences split their sides discussing all the merchandise with her face on it.
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" Wishful Drinking is a show-don't-tell masterclass in how to live out its central theme: "If you can claim something, it has less power over you.
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But this approach was prone to wishful thinking; if markets have performed well in the past, the temptation is to assume they will continue to do so.
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"I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box," Fisher said in the book of her one-woman show, Wishful Drinking.
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Other reports have indicated that Schumer is also dating President Obama, but we're going to chalk that up to an attraction to powerful men and wishful thinking.
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A STATE synonymous with cheese, niceness and the troglodyte habits of its early European settlers, Wisconsin is being additionally celebrated, by wishful Republicans, as Donald Trump's Waterloo.
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Karabayram's team certainly appears to have made a historic find, but there's plenty of reason to believe that the connection to Saint Nicholas could be wishful thinking.
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Scarlatoiu tells Lake it's "wishful thinking" to presume that America would be allowed to collect insights on a regime that largely operates a vast network of informants.
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CONWAY: Are you saying there's evidence of collusion because everybody is trying to convert wishful thinking into hard evidence and they haven't been able to do that.
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But a re-release—or, and this is wishful thinking in the extreme, an enhanced edition—of Captain Toad on Switch surely isn't out of the question?
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Cost estimates from impartial scorekeepers, like those on the Joint Committee on Taxation and at the Congressional Budget Office, are tossed aside for wishful and duplicitous analyses.
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Ironically, the pact so bitterly denounced as an example of pacifist wishful thinking became a legal method for prosecuting those found guilty of committing crimes against humanity.
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But two people briefed on recent discussions by Weinstein Company board members said that any hope of the studio continuing in its current form was wishful thinking.
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The New Health Care There are potential harms as well as benefits, and a lot of wishful thinking and imprecision in the marketing of products containing them.
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And, interestingly, it seems that the leaders who didn't engage in wishful thinking were, for the most part, in countries that had experience with previous disease outbreaks.
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Brussels has brushed it off as wishful thinking, and "leave" voters have accused the majority Conservative government of selling out their base by seeking a softer Brexit.
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It's always sounded a little too much like wishful thinking on the part of the prisoners, yet everyone in the room backs up what Zack is saying.
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Brussels has brushed it off as wishful thinking, and "leave" voters have accused the majority Conservative government of selling out its base by seeking a softer Brexit.
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Expectations that the travel ban will be its first and last result are wishful thinking — thanks to the Supreme Court's tone-deaf and morally obtuse judgment Tuesday.
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It is no longer wishful thinking to believe such regret could yet lead to a second referendum, based this time on real terms rather than wretched lies.
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"That is wishful thinking as far as I can tell," said Dana Stroul, co-chairwoman of the congressionally sponsored Syria Study Group and a former Pentagon official.
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" The emails were not released that Wednesday, October 5, but on that same day, Stone wrote on Twitter, "Libs thinking Assange will stand down are wishful thinking.
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Its wishful context spoiled even the images that should have mattered to me, the way any amateur photograph matters: by recording the face of what we love.
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Now following his acquittal and the realization that Democrats have to face the man who humiliated them, wishful thinking among liberals is quickly changing into outright panic.
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Our reporters say the plan is based on wishful thinking; it assumes an economic growth rate of 3 percent, when the post-recession average is 2 percent.
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Wishful thinking about Iran's mullahs, near-religious faith in the power of pieces of paper, and a retreat from executive authority are hallmarks of the impending crash.
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Wishful Thinking "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," goes the saying — one that now seems like a relic of simpler times.
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Trump is at 50% in the Gallup poll in Tennessee, Democrats' only real (and this may be wishful thinking for them) pickup opportunity in a red state.
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Back in 123, Bethany Cosentino's shamelessly emotional debut record presented a world of weed, wallowing, and wishful thinking that spoke directly to a generation of young listeners.
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The wishful/hopeful thinking is that letting people sign up for smaller, somewhat cheaper packages of programming will convince them not to cut the cord altogether. Maybe!
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Above all, senators from both parties who know in their hearts that we are living through a dangerous moment need to avoid falling prey to wishful thinking.
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She had been nominated twice before at the Emmys, in 2011 for her comedy special Wishful Drinking and in 2008 for her guest actress turn on 30 Rock.
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For all the wishful thinking about manufacturing more laptops and iPhones in the U.S., there is one sector of tech manufacturing where America remains a leader: computer chips.
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Yet despite the wishful thinking of legislators and financial markets alike, there is a high risk that the country's crisis will still get worse before it gets better.
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About all this, the most pressing question I had was, Why are two big Chelsea galleries required to host duplicates of the same enervating exercises in wishful thinking?
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However, much like the story behind what inspired Lemonade, we'll probably never know how much of this is gospel and how much is just our own wishful thinking.
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They told me if I got to the 'meet the family' part (wishful thinking TBF), they would have made my aunt and uncle pretend to be my parents.
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Some economists focused on Russia also view elements of the three-year draft budget as wishful thinking given the likelihood that political pressure will push up public spending.
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Could be wishful thinking on Chris' part ... Austin's got a lot on his plate, preparing to slide into Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes in the King's upcoming biopic.
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She also wrote and starred in a one-woman show, "Wishful Drinking," which became a 2010 HBO special that included a riotous rundown of her extended family tree.
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Bannon was recently removed from the National Security Council, in a move that some see as a sign of the advisor's waning power and/or liberal wishful thinking.
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But this is most likely wishful thinking, when there is a path-of-least-resistance that would satisfy Trump's lust to impose his will, win, and be feared.
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The natural disaster occasioned the Republican proposal, but it might be wishful thinking to cast this bill as a first step toward enacting a broader middle-class agenda.
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Contrary to the wishful thinking in which President Erdogan is engaging, Russia and China are unlikely to be disposed to anywhere nearly fill such a large financing gap.
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In 2014, one year A.T. (After Tang), Mayor Bill de Blasio lowered the speed limit on New York City streets to a wishful twenty-five miles per hour.
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It probes the murk and terror beneath the surface of contemporary life, and illuminates the vital role of ignorance, poor judgment and wishful thinking in our national character.
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Reporting was replaced largely by wishful thinking as television news shows allowed left-leaning voices to predict jail time for Trump family members and impeachment for the president.
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"The Wall Street reported (my retirement), which is more of a wishful thought than anything," Blankfein said at a luncheon hosted by the Boston College Chief Executives Club.
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ObamaCare rules have been more about wishful thinking, power, and cronyism than patient welfare or any realistic commitment to policies known to improve health care cost and quality.
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But conclusions like that shouldn't be accepted without a lot of hard thinking and self-criticism; you need to bend over backward to avoid falling into wishful thinking.
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Then again, if even the director of the CIA can't lock down his (AOL) email account, perhaps it's wishful thinking that any other agency's employees might fair better.
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Despite wishful statements from Saudi ministers, the kingdom's efforts last month to make a deal with Russia, Venezuela and Qatar to restrict supply and push up prices collapsed.
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To think that to go on a couple of mainland tours or to promote a common language and so forth can instantly translate into patriotism is wishful thinking.
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Both twins have declined to reprise the part of Michelle in Netflix's Fuller House reboot, prompting a little wishful thinking that their thespian sib might be viable alternative.
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None of these people could have guessed what they wanted from life until fate overrode their wishful thinking: If the book has one point to make, that's it.
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As a result, they were inordinately acquiescent to the wishful thinking of their civilian overseers — and no one thought more wishfully about the war than Walt Whitman Rostow.
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It's wishful thinking, but perhaps if the people behind these messages see the effect they have, there will be at least some reduction in the amount of them.
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That may all be wishful thinking on the part of Mr. Sealock, who is managing a company that is attempting to unlock billions of new barrels of oil.
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Cruz staked out maximally conservative positions on most major issues, some of which are based on far-right economic theories or rely on wishful thinking about international affairs.
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" He called this "admirable," but said that "by the end it also feels halfhearted, as what looked like a dystopian fantasy turns into an exercise in wishful thinking.
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To trust that such a person would be willing to dismantle and transform the very system that placed him on top — and others like it — is wishful thinking.
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"The proposed deal put forth is nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of the A.G.s, who are 20 months too late to this party," he said.
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Dynamic scoring is potentially more accurate, but it is also more easily abused by those who want to promote their policies with an unhealthy dose of wishful thinking.
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With fewer homes on the market, wishful homeowners like Eric and Amanda Olson are likely to rent longer, buy later in life and settle for a fixer-upper.
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They called the plan to stay in business "nothing more than wishful thinking " and "an unjustified and foolhardy gamble with other people's money," in one of their filings.
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We're still practicing a lot of the confusion and denial and wishful thinking and looking the other way that led to atrocities and that allows atrocities to continue.
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Is it wishful thinking to hope that Gen Z rom-com leads take up the banner of Peter Kavinsky and earn their desirability by always being nice to girls?
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Congratulations on being the first Martian to die of old age, because a return trip from the Red Planet is currently impossible without using wishful logistics like fuel harvesting.
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There's also a chance that Apple could put the newly released, more durable Corning Gorilla Glass 22018 on all three new devices, but that might also be wishful thinking.
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"The White House's attempt to manufacture Republican disunity is engaging in wishful thinking and confusing courtesy with weakness," said Carrie Severino, chief counsel for the conservative Judicial Crisis Network.
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But with the world awash in oil, the result of the production boom that generated the windfall for states in the first place, most forecasters believe that's wishful thinking.
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At this point it's just wishful thinking, but Britney Spears did give fans a glimmer of hope when she hinted at a possible reunion with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
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But for an an experiment in extreme wishful thinking, I reached out to Western University economist Mike Moffatt to figure out how plausible this "weed patch" reality would be.
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Boehner's successor, Paul Ryan, is both the party's great hope for the future and the leader most likely to be undone by the GOP's tactical extremism and wishful thinking.
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No idea where this rumor came from (wishful thinking, perhaps?) but there is something very full-circle about her taking on a more mature, but still magical TV role.
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Yet every election, candidates and aides, seeking silver linings when beset by bad polls, indulge the wishful thought that bulging rallies will mean a stampede at the ballot box.
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The wishful expectation expressed by many investors that rising yields are a trigger for a long-awaited shift from growth to value stocks faces a high burden of proof.
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But that's also wishful thinking because it also means we'd all have to go back to cooking our own meals, and that's a luxury many of us can't afford.
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On the other hand, in an ever-more-hopelessly polarized America, it could encourage a nationwide embrace of those two quintessentially West Coast ideals — wishful thinking and conscious uncoupling.
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Despite the wishful thinking of a quasi-religious collection of fervent "anti-drug" campaigners, whatever form drugs may take in our digitized future, they are clearly here to stay.
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Right now, to me, that feels like naïve wishful thinking, a kind of "Love is the fifth element!" motto-message that doesn't have much to do with current reality.
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I think it's important that scientists take great pains to make sure that ideology and personal bias and wishful thinking do not contaminate the collection and analysis and evidence.
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Finally, Cain's belief that the government might replicate the advantages of the old gold standard by defining the dollar "as a fixed quantity of gold" again is wishful thinking.
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But American taxpayers and Afghans, who have endured decades of war, need a plan better than the current policy, which offers good intentions, wishful thinking and ever-worsening results.
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" Cornyn added that he thought the 12 Russians indicted last week by special counsel Robert Mueller should be extradited to the U.S., but acknowledged that would be "wishful thinking.
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They often follow a common, tragic script, built around two fundamental mistakes: untested assumptions about the need to act, and wishful thinking about magical schemes to act without consequences.
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It is the height of arrogance and wishful thinking to actually believe that statist policies can change the earth's temperature, prevent hurricanes, or stop the rise of the oceans.
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Part of me wishes there was a way to use these as regular boots, but it's wishful thinking, and probably not all that plausible unless it's bone-dry outside.
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Back in 2014, we compiled a list of movies that deserve their own makeup lines and the compilation is beginning to look more like a prediction than wishful thinking.
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Ever since the 2016 presidential campaign began back in 1999 (at least that's what it feels like), there has been a pattern of wishful thinking about the Republican Party.
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I wondered why the show kept up this wishful thinking even after the election, and all of these women stuck right by Trump just as they said they would.
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Given how beloved the original Red Wedding episode was and the show's lack of consistency with the book, it's possible fans are engaged in a bit of wishful thinking.
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If anyone believed there was a linear progression to history, one through which humanity slowly but surely improved, the Holocaust in Europe suggested that this might be wishful thinking.
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As luck would have it, the Democratic Party has a loyal group of voters who, though hardly monolithic, tend to be more pragmatic and less wishful than progressive activists.
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They are often, at least to my eye, a little too fussed-over to be entirely convincing, and always more wishful than observant about the realities of human life.
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"Maybe it's wishful thinking [on their part], but people are downplaying the significance -- maybe because they're not seeing people in their communities coming down with the virus," Taylor said.
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The nine trends and events listed below are not just excuses for wishful thinking: Any of these on their own is a major step forward for fixing climate change.
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Medical experts worry that such combinations of misinformation and wishful thinking are common among traditional healers who, like it or not, are the front lines of rural African medicine.
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Sean C., Charlottetown: Ms. Smarsh's article is one part anecdotal and one part wishful thinking (it would be nice if economic populism was the key to reaching Trump voters).
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The most surprising parts of "Tailspin" come at the end, when he tries to forecast what might happen next, offering a rather extraordinary mix of doomsaying and wishful thinking.
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To the Editor: Clyde Haberman's incisive and logical call to bring back the draft so more Americans would have "skin in the game" is no more than wishful thinking.
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As a world power, of course they would have a vested interest and wishful thinking for who is president of the United States, just like every other country does.
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"I think it's simply wishful thinking that the Trump administration will change its mind about the TPP," said Takuji Okubo, managing director and chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
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And, to make it clear that no this flirting is NOT just wishful thinking, Disney threw in a little clip of Lando calling Han "baby," just for good measure.
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One of those books, the memoir "Wishful Drinking," was adapted from a critically lauded one-woman show on Broadway in 2009 — recorded and released as this documentary by HBO.
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And even some GOP appropriators close to Ryan say the idea of trying to pass a series of contentious spending bills right before the holidays is probably wishful thinking.
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It's negative for reasons that are not traceable but there's no particular evidence, it's just feelings, or it's very positive which is more related to high expectations and wishful thinking.
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However, one Chinese rare earth industry source said such an agreement was "wishful thinking" on behalf of North Korea and queried the real level of Chinese interest in the project.
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However, one Chinese rare earth industry source said such an agreement was "wishful thinking" on behalf of North Korea and queried the real level of Chinese interest in the project.
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"I know that the Republicans were engaging in a lot of wishful thinking, but this is not anything people should be worried about," Clinton added in her interview with CNBC.
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Makeup mogul Huda Kattan will add a highly anticipated skincare line, Wishful, to her billion-dollar beauty business, as more women are now swapping cosmetics for clean natural-looking skin.
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So, while Jerry and George's plight might not be impossible, it's definitely filled with minefields — so expecting to get out of the situation without a little tension is wishful thinking.
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" And in the end, per her book Wishful Drinking, the actress had just one wish for her obituary, that it read, "I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.
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Wishful thinking, perhaps, but de Masi likened Essential's growth potential to the original iPhone, sales that were hampered in part by Apple's inability to manufacturer enough phones to meet demand.
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Fans aren't just exercising in wishful thinking here, there's reason to believe Bethesda will find some way to incorporate the Mothman myth, whether that's through a creature or quest line.
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But if continued growth sounds like wishful thinking, there's another path for Apple to prosper even if iPhone sales do hit a wall: Suck more money out of each phone.
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"Getting a deal done by early 2018 or the end of this year was wishful thinking," said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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"In my view, it's the only physics that I know and trust to not involve wishful thinking and magical fields," Woodward told me when we spoke after the NASA leak.
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With warm weather just around the corner (fine, maybe that's wishful thinking), I wanted a lip balm that would smell good, add shine, and protect my lips from every element.
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"There is hope in the market that the talk of a freeze is the first step that will lead to a production cut [but] that's really wishful thinking," said Shum.
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This one's probably just wishful thinking at this stage, but when everything goes wrong during Cersei and Jon Snow's meeting I like to think a mass fight will break out.
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"Getting a deal done by early 2018 or the end of this year was wishful thinking," says Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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"I went completely off the rails," says Fisher, who wrote about her mental illness and prescription drug addiction in her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking, also a hit one-woman show.
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The lingering suspicion that Brexit might not go forward is wishful thinking on the part of an industry reliant on European talent and uncomplicated access to the European single market.
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But wishful thinking and clever sloganeering will not solve our numerous political challenges, which range from mitigating terrorism and climate change, to forging new job opportunities and criminal justice reform.
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When I first saw them after moving to Mexico in April, I thought they were a form of street art, perhaps wishful landing pads for tiny helicopters piloted by leprechauns.
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Gossip, wishful thinking, speculation, fantasy, memory, fiction, art: When corruption is blatant, hypocrisy unchallenged, and power obviously unattainable, Novey suggests, these are the tools people use to comprehend the world.
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The cold, hard facts of our government deficits over the past two decades have shown Alan Greenspan's idea of a world without government debt to be nothing but wishful thinking.
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And Carrie Severino, the chief counsel and policy director of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, deemed it wishful thinking that Democrats would uncover irrefutable evidence of perjury by Justice Kavanaugh.
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"I think people start rumors on their own — just wishful thinking," said Victoria Richard, the news director for WKGC Radio, which has been trying, with limited success, to quell speculation.
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Much of what he says is right, but much is not, or is wishful thinking, or sounds wildly optimistic, but does not seem to be documented and so is uncheckable.
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Alberto Ramos, head of Latin American research at Goldman Sachs in New York, warned that the minister's plan for raising revenue without new taxes may also include some wishful thinking.
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But their analyses of this report suffers from a kind of wishful thinking we're all prone to: seeing reality as we want it to be, rather than how it is.
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Many Romans remember the local folk hero known as D'Artagnan, who for decades waded into the fountain before dawn to fish for the coins that wishful tourists had tossed behind.
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Our effort, in the end, is hardly different from the eighteenth century's insistence on tacking a happy ending on to "King Lear," wishful thinking in the guise of an improvement.
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"I've never covered an Election Day where there weren't intense claims of misbehavior on both sides, and profound wishful thinking about the results on the losing side," Mr. Smith said.
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While the law's sponsors insist that its tax cuts will trigger rapid economic growth that will more than compensate for the government's revenue losses, this claim is merely wishful thinking.
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"There is no allegation," the deputy attorney general says, "in the indictment..." -- which is, despite Trump's wishful interpretation, not a promise that those charges won't appear in a subsequent indictment.
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After decades of bipartisan wishful thinking and diplomatic naivety, the incontrovertible fact remains that the United States and our allies have been unsuccessful in stopping North Korea's nuclear weapons progress.
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For unlike the pro-life movement's leaders, I cannot believe the wishful fantasy that Donald Trump would save any more infant lives than Hillary Clinton will allow to be aborted.
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Ultimately, the study shows how scientists and the media have seized upon the narrative that chocolate is a health food — even when only the thinnest evidence supports the wishful claim.
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Ultimately, there's no proof whatsoever that activated charcoal pills help hangovers, except for the placebo effect, "which is what all these [companies] do: rely on people's wishful thinking," Dr. Kazzi says.
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"There's been a lot of wishful thinking about the plans of Brexit and how it might pan out," said Lee Ferridge, head of macro strategy, North America, State Street Global Markets.
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But critics of the administration's frontal assault on consumer protections say that's wishful thinking, and the entire industry effort hinges on a shaky FCC legal gambit that isn't likely to succeed.
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Although the League and M5S pay some attention to these issues, their chief plan seems to be a huge burst of stimulus from tax cuts and handouts, financed by wishful thinking.
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Squint, cross your eyes, hold your breath, and turn on all your wishful-thinking activators, and you might be able to make an argument that it's about responsibility and unintentional harm.
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But it will be sterling that will take centre-stage if the TARP model is to rescue May — her game-plan according to some, although others view it as wishful thinking.
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Here's your post-holiday briefing: Wishful thinking: Yesterday, the president doubled down on his claim from last week that tax cuts "essentially" end the Affordable Care Act, which isn't exactly true.
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While that might sound like the wishful thinking of fans frantic at the thought of the series ending forever in just two short seasons, it actually makes a lot of sense.
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Others have specifically pointed to the NBC host playfully tousling Trump's hair during a guest appearance in September as grounds for his decline, which might be more wishful thinking than reality.
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Only a few criteria govern who can become president; one of them is that the president must be a natural-born citizen; birtherism thus emerges from circular reasoning and wishful thinking.
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The evangelical author Larry Alex Taunton's allegation is at best a well-meant misunderstanding, a result of wishful thinking, and at worst an effort to cast doubt on Hitch's core convictions.
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It might sound like wishful thinking, but FOX Sports 1 did recently launch on Sling TV, and NBCSN is now available nationally on PlayStation Vue, which shows they're slowly coming around.
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At the time, many Republicans and opponents of the ACA expressed skepticism about this lower projected shortfall, arguing that Obama's trustees were just engaged in wishful thinking or even outright lying.
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The fact that the armchair economists of the mainstream media seem to be almost unanimous in predicting an impending recession only proves that they have substituted wishful thinking for sober analysis.
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The endless stream of books and articles arguing that one day we will be resurrected thanks to the reactivation of the information contained in our brains is based on wishful thinking.
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Is it dangerous to, say, walk to work in this weather, or drive your car in your community, or should I put my wishful thinking about working from home to bed?
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That may be wishful thinking, and negotiations will be long and hard, but it now seems that one way or another 5-Star's spell in opposition could be about to end.
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But Curry and Kerr, Golden State's only cornerstones signed to long-term contracts, caution that it's far too early for the rest of the N.B.A. to engage in such wishful thinking.
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The United Nations aid appeal was "based on what we think the situation will actually be, rather than wishful thinking about what we would all like it to be," he said.
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The advisor, who declined to be identified, brushed aside Trump's "pull-out" directive as "wishful thinking", arguing that foreign investors would gravitate toward China's huge market potential and massive consumer base.
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That has compounded a problem that waste managers call wishful or aspirational recycling: people setting aside items for recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they aren't.
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But rank-and-file Republicans, from the conservative House Freedom Caucus to the moderate Tuesday Group, say the strategy to break up the spending bill into "minibus" packages is wishful thinking.
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The speaker's effort to present himself, and the House, as something close to a Republican antidote to Mr. Trump may be wishful thinking if the front-runner becomes the standard-bearer.
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It's wishful thinking to imagine that reforestation is possible on a planet that will need to feed 10 billion people in this century with food grown on forests turned to farms.
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He indulged in the wishful thinking that Roosevelt's charismatic leadership and use of his "bully pulpit" could arouse and inspire the public and Congress to the proper pursuit of international duties.
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To my horror, however, I discovered that the eyebrows did not in fact profess concern, that they had never professed concern, that that had just been wishful thinking on my part.
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But both versions of "The Square" practice an aesthetics of shaming, laying bare the hypocrisy, the selfishness and the wishful thinking embedded in the deep structures of 21st-century metropolitan existence.
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Mr Sessions's brief stewardship of the Department of Justice (DOJ), in which the demagoguery of Mr Trump's campaign is turning into action, is Exhibit A in the case against such wishful thinking.
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Her other books included 1990's "Surrender the Pink, 2001's "Hollywood Moms," 2008's "Wishful Drinking," which was adapted for the stage, 2011's "Shockaholic" and 2016's "The Princess Diarist.
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"Sometimes reality catches up quickly with wishful thinking and political spin," Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., told CNBC on Wednesday.
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There are more Republican seats at risk than Democratic ones, and some analysts believe that down-ballot races could be negatively affected by a Trump nomination (though that may be wishful thinking).
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In interviews with CNN, a number of Republicans suggested that Trump's claim amounted to wishful thinking, saying they believed the billionaire businessman would ultimately backtrack on one of his central campaign promises.
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"I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra," she wrote in 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking.
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So when Intel pays for a study that predicts self-driving cars will cause cash to rain from the sky, it should be seen as equal parts industry analysis and wishful thinking.
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Rich households, perhaps wanting to be seen to be eating healthily, claimed to consume less of it than they did, whereas poor ones, possibly indulging in wishful thinking, claimed to eat more.
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This wishful scene is part of a new ad takeover featuring satirical posters in phone booths and bus stations across New York City, some of which have already entered a museum collection.
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It's shown in the form of inquiry as to where your family is "originally" from — shedding all veneer of a "common French heritage" as merely a matter of niceties and wishful thinking.
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Mr Trump's suggestion that he could get the question inserted via executive order seems to be wishful thinking: the constitution is clear that Congress, not the executive, has authority over the census.
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This is not only wishful thinking on his part, but dangerous in its distortion of the signal most enduring conflict in our nation's history and in its willful ignorance about American history.
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ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN HOST: Are we going ahead with just some hopeful, wishful fools and I find that incredibly worrying, incredibly depressing MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC HOST: There&aposs no knowledge of history.
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Carrie Fisher inspired many during her lengthy career — including ex-husband Paul Simon who, the actress wrote in her autobiography Wishful Drinking, wrote several songs inspired by her and their life together.
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But both of them share a blinkered enthusiasm for plans born of ignorance and wishful thinking, and both of them have a nasty tendency to address their problems with sudden, explosive violence.
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Better outcomes require the replacement of wishful thinking with better institutions, which in turn are based on a more refined understanding of the ways in which individuals act and respond to incentives.
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Some of them are wishful thinking, like the belief that we can buy a piece of real estate, fix it up and sell it for a huge profit in a short period.
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What began as a autobiographical solo show inspired by Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" evolved into a multicharacter play that has the feel of a bull session among women with wildly different perspectives.
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It could easily have lapsed into didacticism, or into the kind of sentimental wishful thinking that so often afflicts Hollywood's attempts to deal with the seductive, morally ambiguous world of big money.
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But as someone who believes that securing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state requires two states for two peoples, I have to hold out hope (and maybe indulge in wishful thinking).
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The Source: More anonymously sourced fan rumoring Probability of Accuracy: Unlike the last rumors, this has an air of truth to it, but that may simply be wishful thinking on our part.
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But none of those policies amounts to a strategy that quite delivers on the candidates' broad promises of defeating ISIS; at some point, each relies on more than a little wishful thinking.
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Ravetch, who co-wrote Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking" and created "A Step in Time: A Musical Memoir" for Dick Van Dyke, sacrifices character and emotional realism for quips, few of them funny.
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Most predictions of that sort probably err on the optimistic side, and it may be wishful thinking that China's economy will make up most of what is being lost once coronavirus recedes.
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Whatever path policymakers choose, it is clear that we need to move away from theoretical arguments and wishful thinking and into the arena of pragmatic policy solutions that can actually be enacted.
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Some historians have challenged the K.G.B. files as ambiguous, arguing that many entries were the product of wishful thinking or exaggeration on the part of Soviet agents trying to please their bosses.
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The twin spectacles of Brooklyn and Chicago will also validate the belief among Sanders' allies that his support is stickier than many observers, including some wishful Democrats, might have hoped or predicted.
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She wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Postcards From the Edge, that was turned into a movie, and a one-woman show about her life, Wishful Drinking, that became a best-selling book.
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Sadly, and as the YouTube video's corresponding comments section demonstrates, science that interferes with wishful thinking tends to be dismissed by the UFO asshats who are easily swayed by these sorts of arguments.
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However, one Chinese rare earth industry source told Reuters such an agreement was "wishful thinking" on behalf of North Korea and was sceptical about the real level of Chinese interest in the project.
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There are many areas where I believe the government is not the best equipped to solve a problem, and many others where the solutions are based more on wishful thinking than on evidence.
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At least some of Mr Thaksin's supporters believe that the new king is well disposed to their cause (this is probably wishful thinking, and their disappointment could yet become a source of unrest).
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There is the comfort of wishful thinking, the thrill of empty hedonism, the glow of self-satisfaction (we can all think of examples), and then there is a more fulfilling kind of pleasure.
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There are so many scenes of her debasement that it comes as a relief to join Lucy in wishful thinking for once, even though it's clear this story can't have a happy ending.
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This did not temper the arrogance or the wishful thinking of the people most empowered to define the online landscape, and we live now in the online dystopia that their ignorance has wrought.
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The argument that live events or live sports or the NFL are immune to that pressure seems like wishful thinking from industries that have bet many billions on that theory being true. But!
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Of course, this might be a mix of wishful thinking and off-target speculation, and Waiti is there in his role as director with a microphone in front of him purely by chance.
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As we pointed out in our original report, below, the filing from the end of January was tipped to us by the blog Road to VR. "Wishful thinking," said a source to us.
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There have been rumors (mostly wishful thinking) that Mamba would lace 'em up for one last ride in the Purple & Gold to take a run at the Golden State Warriors alongside King James.
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The question, right up until the moment it stopped being abstract, was always sort of whimsical, and so it makes sense that assuming the future would just Make Things Easier somehowis so wishful.
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No one could ignore Ramona's antics in season 9's "Wishful Invitation" as she dragged LuAnn Delesseps's wedding right to her face and made Bethenny Frankel so uncomfortable she bolted for the door.
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As those old-school accessories suggest, the series is set in the mid-eighties, in the San Fernando Valley—a dingy landscape of fast food and wishful thinking, on the fringes of Hollywood.
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But the clamoring for a Democratic wave year may prove to be déjà vu from 2016 — more wishful thinking from political pundits and media elites desperate to find anything to derail Donald Trump.
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In the fevered delusions of the media hype machine and wishful right-wing pundits, this month's Democratic convention will be a scene of barbed wire, protests and police, floor fights and shouting matches.
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That might sound like nothing more than wishful thinking — a thin reed of formulaic faith — if the movie had not already supplied solid grounds for hope in the shape of the barbershop itself.
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But the absence, while part of a longstanding pattern, suggests wishful thinking on Ryan's part—and lends an unreality to the article, as if it were being published during a very different election.
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Thanks to forward-thinking innovative science conducted by private industry, technology developers, academia, and the government, as well as funding from the federal government and animal protection organizations, this isn't just wishful thinking.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May, ever wishful of improving her ties with Trump, hopes his visit in July won't be overshadowed by an immigration crisis in the US or fresh controversy from NATO.
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It may be wishful thinking, but after three years of Trump's craziness, many Americans — including those like me for whom Pence is anathema — are just yearning for the semblance of a normal presidency.
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And I am not immune to wishful thinking that an over-the-counter vitamin, mineral or herb may help to keep me healthy or relieve some distress without having to see a doctor.
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She was the first child of her highly visible parents (they later had a son, Todd), and said in "Wishful Drinking" that, while her mother was under anesthetic delivering her, her father fainted.
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"This was a perfect storm of ego, wishful thinking and lack of accountability," said Dr. Jil C. Tardiff, a professor of medicine at the University of Arizona, and a heart-muscle cell researcher.
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"These are unprecedented steps that are called for, and so there would be a desire to engage in wishful thinking that it's not as bad as the experts are saying," UNC's Baumgartner said.
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I wasn't left feeling like it was all that bitter; in a lot of ways, and perhaps this is looking back on the pre-AIDS era, it felt wishful and kind of sweet.
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The problem is that these actions may be rare and intermittent, so when family members who witnessed them share their observations with staff members, they are often attributed to a family's wishful thinking.
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But the president's campaign team scoffed at what it called Democratic wishful thinking, saying that the only reason Mr. O'Rourke came close last year was because Mr. Trump was not on the ballot.
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The film's struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America's racial past — is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful.
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Li is right to point out that wishful thinking has not played out in practice, a thought that will ring familiar to many Western executives pining for more access to the People's Republic.
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But as Fisher detailed in her 2006 book and one-woman special Wishful Drinking, she and Reynolds found a way to reconcile their relationship and appreciate each other's strengths despite their turbulent histories.
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Nothing's official yet, but it seems the president will finally sideline White House press secretary Sean Spicer, the stormy spokesperson who often endured ridicule for blurring the lines between truth, fiction, and wishful thinking.
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Those of us with privilege ideally use it to help others gain access to opportunities to learn and grow, but the idea that bringing someone into a museum is enough is a wishful fiction.
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"Ignoring evidence that is widely agreed upon by a field of qualified economists while presenting tax changes that seem to be based on wishful thinking is a bad foundation for policy changes," he wrote.
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So there's still a chance that watches like the Movado Connect (above) will attract people more concerned with aesthetics than functionality — provided this shift toward fashion sensibilities is real and not just wishful thinking.
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What makes CFAR novel is its effort to use those same principles to fix personal problems: to break frustrating habits, recognize self-defeating cycles and relentlessly interrogate our own wishful inclinations and avoidant instincts.
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The essay is careful to insist that any jealousy between the two duchesses is wishful thinking, but the subtext is obvious: Middleton is chafing at ceding her spotlight to Markle, the feminist American upstart.
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In recent years, Fisher wryly but lovingly documented their relationship in Wishful Drinking, the Broadway show, book and HBO special that offered her unvarnished take on her unusual childhood and later struggles with addiction.
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"Only time will tell whether this turns out to be a case of wishful thinking but one thing is clear: geopolitical risks are here to stay," said Stephen Brennock, analyst at PVM Oil Associates.
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Maybe this is harmless wishful thinking, and more likely it's utter hogwash, but I am still holding out hope that David Bowie might just show up for that second Twin Peaks cameo after all.
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Though later evidence would show that officials at the Democratic National Committee were pro-Clinton—and the whole process undoubtedly favors Establishment candidates like Clinton—these wilder theories seem to be just wishful thinking.
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As Ivanka Trump takes on her new role as special assistant to the president, there have been some wishful thinkers who believe that means she will be a progressive champion in the White House.
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"It seems to us that a Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of the G269.71 meeting is more wishful thinking than hard political reality," wrote Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex.
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She adapted her 1990 autobiographical book Postcards from the Edge for the bigscreen (with dear friend Meryl Streep playing the lead role), and her one-woman show Wishful Drinking revisited many of those themes.
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But the particularly confusing nature of this crisis, paired with the convergence of the world's media hordes on Rio de Janeiro, has also produced a truly epic amount of misinformation, stereotypes, and wishful thinking.
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It's also possible that the election of the first black president gave some wishful Americans hope of suddenly perfect racial harmony and that the current bitterness grew in the gap between expectations and reality.
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Liberal economists may be engaging in wishful thinking of their own as they suggest that more powerful labor unions generate not just higher wages but stronger productivity growth and a faster-growing overall economy.
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They also had a turbulent history, something Fisher wrote about in her 2006 memoir, Wishful Drinking, which was later turned into a one-woman Broadway show and HBO documentary special (which you can stream).
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"Only time will tell whether this turns out to be a case of wishful thinking, but one thing is clear: geopolitical risks are here to stay," said Stephen Brennock, analyst at PVM Oil Associates.
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Housewife and beast are hard to separate—Dorothy's name suggests exile from home (Kansas, Oz), and Larry may well be her own wishful creation, both erotic substitute and compensation for the children she's lost.
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She channeled her struggles with depression and substance abuse into fiercely comic works, including the semiautobiographical novel "Postcards From the Edge" and the one-woman show "Wishful Drinking," which she turned into a memoir.
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The film practices "an aesthetics of shaming, laying bare the hypocrisy, the selfishness and the wishful thinking embedded in the deep structures of 21st-century metropolitan existence," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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In the middle of a health care update from R. Alexander Acosta, the labor secretary, Mr. Trump engaged in some wishful thinking about the repeal of the health care law enacted under Mr. Obama.
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If someone had told me then that some day we would elect to the presidency people like Fernando Henrique Cardoso and then Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, it would have sounded like wishful thinking.
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The notion that President Trump will actually be impeached seemed like liberal wishful thinking, but a new prosecutor represented a serious threat and Washington was abuzz on Wednesday with the surround sound of scandal.
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Mitski "Fireworks" (Dead Oceans) Wishful thinking, about getting over painful memories, takes form with a ticking drum machine, hazy chords, a big hopeful buildup and then an unresolved ending; it's not over yet. 12.
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Wishful Thinking Even as Democrats decry the false claims streaming regularly from the White House, they appear to have become more vulnerable to unsupported claims and conspiracy theories that flatter their own political prejudices.
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That pragmatic drive to keep enjoying life is what prompts people to alter their financial decision-making based on how old they feel, not a wishful denial of their true age, Mr. Conley said.
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Yet, three years on, after design changes to the drones and regulatory struggles with the US Federal Aviation Administration , the company's drone scheme started to seem a little more like a child's wishful thinking.
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"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable," she wrote in her book, Wishful Drinking, a memoir chronicling her struggles with manic depression, substances, and the fallout of fame.
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This isn't just wishful thinking as the regulator would be able to fine the company up to 4 percent of the company's global annual turnover in case of a systemic failure to moderate toxic content.
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But listen to any song with "promises" in the title and you'll know that they're most often just fragments of wishful thinking: Beats headphones look and sound flashy, but aren't truly premium in either category.
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That may just be wishful thinking on the part of Ferrari fans stunned by their team's recent implosion — both drivers colliding at the start in Singapore and then handicapped by power unit problems in Malaysia.
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The notion that Saudi Arabia could do the heavy lifting for America in a confrontation with Iran, as Republican hawks inside and outside the administration maintain, looked wishful even before Prince Muhammad showed his stripes.
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But it's no surprise under the circumstances that many voters—whether they are Hillary Clinton supporters indulging in wishful thinking, or Trump opponents fearful of his presidency—would be susceptible to conspiracy theories this year.
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The title could seem to suggest an archive of naked pictures of the director—maybe that's wishful thinking—but it's actually a collection photos by Lynch, exploring the female form with his trademark alien eye.
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But it seems much more likely that tax cuts will, ultimately, end up being financed by a mix of new borrowing and wishful thinking on economic growth just the way Reagan and Bush did it.
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It was a bummer, but fans didn't lose hope that the tested service would soon make its way to other parts of the country, and it seems that wishful thinking actually paid off for once.
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Being around them, you notice they talk to each other like two wishful teenagers jamming in one of their parents' garage, always making references to lyrics they've written together or obscure pianists they both dig.
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Anna listens to them, with what seems to be a complicated blend of masochism, jealousy and wishful thinking — as if the fact that someone believes her son is still alive might make him less dead.
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But the bonuses amounted to about $17.4 billion, which analysts regarded as a sign that Brazil relied on wishful thinking when it set the price companies had to pay upfront if their bids were accepted.
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Fisher later shared her life and experiences with mental illness and drug addiction in her 85033 one-woman biographical play, "Wishful Drinking," which was turned into a memoir in 2009 and a documentary in 2010.
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Part of it may be wishful thinking because South Koreans want it to be a success, and government and media are cautiously optimistic, given that Kim really seems committed to make some kind of deal.
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First, only wishful thinking can deny that organizations like the Taliban and al Qaeda will have a presence in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future, no matter what the United States does or does not do.
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I don't believe for a second that Cersei is actually pregnant, though this could be wishful thinking; it seems like an attempt to enmesh Jaime more thoroughly in their mentally unhealthy and biologically unsound relationship.
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The point of accepting that we will never be free of his mania is not to drive ourselves into an even deeper depression, but rather to liberate ourselves from our own illusions and wishful thinking.
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"It is wishful thinking on the part of Washington that these countries will equate their own national interests with that of the United States and will therefore pursue hard balancing against China," Mr. Zhang said.
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When remedies that have been proved beneficial are replaced by those supported primarily by wishful thinking, anecdotes and sloppy science (if any science), the result can be a death sentence that could have been avoided.
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My brother, a doctor working on the front lines of the crisis in San Francisco, called the misinformation "magical thinking and wishful ignorance" that persists because none of us ever wants to believe the worst.
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"It was a little bit wishful thinking to think we could address climate change and drill like crazy for oil and gas, and maintain a strong fossil fuel industry as we reduce emissions," Donaghy said.
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To promote community building, for example, my fellow R.A.s and I organized sober parties, based on the wishful thinking that students might choose to play beer pong with soda over drinking at a house party.
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But one of the worst mistakes in international relations, plaguing us from Vietnam to Iraq, is to operate on wishful thinking rather than reality, and I fear that's what's happening here in a perilous way.
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But this is a complicated and wishful construction, and cutting against it is the more fundamental proposition that the president, who is responsible for the faithful execution of the law, cannot put himself above it.
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After all, mainstream Democrats have no real plan to win Congressor state offices, so in terms of big schemes for change it's a choice between two different flavors of wishful thinking, not between realism and impracticality.
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For months and months, movement conservatives and elected Republicans—along with a non-trivial contingent of political commentators and data journalists—promoted as conventional wisdom an idea that was really much more akin to wishful thinking.
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It was that Hollywood royalty upbringing that provided endless material for Carrie Fisher's literary works, including the semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge and autobiographical book and one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which references Reynolds frequently.
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They had a fraught relationship that many Fisher used as inspiration for in some of her most famous writings, including semi-autobiographical book and subsequent film Postcards from the Edge and her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking.
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Episode: "Parents" Zooey Deschanel's character, Jess, possesses more wishful thinking than she does quirky tights—which is to say, a lot—so it's no surprise that she's guilty of parent trapping her divorced mom and dad.
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Coach Jay Gruden announced the surgery and said it was successful, adding it was "wishful thinking" that he could be back in two to three weeks, with four weeks more likely, according to NBC Sports Washington.
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Contrary to Wayne LaPierre's wishful thinking, this historic moment doesn't belong to the NRA — it belongs to the millions of Americans who came together after Parkland and demanded that our leaders protect us from gun violence.
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Few survey respondents are likely to follow President Carter's example and include sins of the imagination in their personal inventories; most, it can be assumed, will reject President Clinton's wishful insistence that oral sex doesn't count.
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But, unlike Kissinger, whose regard for the Chinese Communist Party never has evolved, Pillsbury said he came to conclude belatedly in the past decade that, despite his and others' "wishful thinking," China's reform was not possible.
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FCHI after a downgrade by Bernstein analysts who argued that recent share price gains were based on "wishful thinking" that a potential deal with Amazon was made more likely by the recent Casino-Ocado tie-up.
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Derek Chollet, a former US assistant secretary of defense in the Obama administration, said much of Washington, including administration officials, lawmakers and Iran hawks have been the victims of "wishful thinking" when it comes to Trump.
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Their most recent bout of wishful thinking concerned the Iowa caucuses, where they managed to convince themselves that Trump finishing second and Marco Rubio finishing third represented a huge triumph for the forces of the establishment.
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Replacing M.B.S. and moving toward a constitutional monarchy might seem like wishful thinking at the moment, but these two steps might save Saudi Arabia from more serious upheaval and possible implosion from within in the future.
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The series is loosely based on Maureen Orth's gossipy book "Vulgar Favours," but the dramatizations and embellishments are so extreme that the series appears more a flight of wishful fantasy than an act of journalistic reconstruction.
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It might be wishful thinking to hope that there's a human piece of us that computers can't quite understand, even if they're able ultimately to predict what we might end up doing with our complex desires.
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Opponents "are trying to paint this false narrative that we're in deep financial trouble, and I think it's wishful thinking on their part," Todd Rathner, a lobbyist and longtime N.R.A. board member, said in an interview.
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If you're still determined to get out there and reap the rewards of running, despite all this totally valid doubt and wishful thinking, then we suggest doing everything you can to make the process more manageable.
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Elsewhere, in countries like France, work-life balance is a matter of public policy and the 35-hour workweek is the norm — something that even the most earnest parents in California's tech community consider wishful thinking.
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"For all the criticism from the establishment of Sanders's candidacy, his success has been largely to actualize the wishful thinking that mainstream Democrats have been banking on for the bulk of the 21st century," he wrote.
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And when Mr. Siddiqui defended himself by citing an internal campaign poll, in which he said he would gain support once voters learned more about him, one woman in the audience warned against Democratic wishful thinking.
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Per Variety: Lindelof mostly dodged the question just like everyone else with the exception of King, whose "absolutely" might've just wishful thinking, but it sounds like he's at least warming to the idea of future seasons.
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Donald Trump Jr. seems to relish red-meat political rallies and hate-filled tweets as much as his father does, but it's not just wishful thinking that makes it hard to foresee multiple generations of Trumps.
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"The Mainland Affairs Council seriously urges the Beijing authorities to immediately stop such clumsy and inferior actions and to stop the wishful thinking that it could replicate the way it controls media domestically in Taiwan," it wrote.
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The "Remain" camp — those who wanted to stay within the EU — saw this as somewhat wishful thinking, and argued that extracting the UK from its decades-long membership in the bloc would be a cumbersome, unpredictable process.
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You know, I will say this and I've been saying this, and it's either wishful thinking or I don't know what you want to call it but, I do believe he will come around to the book.
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While a Bey cameo may be wishful thinking, it's to be assumed that Jay-Z will perform his track "Moonlight," which comments on the movie Moonlight's unconventional Oscar win after the wrong Best Picture honoree was announced.
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Mr Burr says it is growing rather than changing: that seems wishful thinking, even if the evolution has been slower than in neighbouring Virginia, which, in presidential contests, seems in short order to have become safely Democratic.
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"We have done wishful thinking that North Korea would collapse, and this has shaped our negotiations with them," said Chung-in Moon, distinguished professor emeritus at Yonsei University and former South Korean ambassador for international security affairs.
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The U.N. and its member states had been "too timid in our collective pushback on what's happening to human rights" and sometimes fell prey to wishful thinking when trying to mediate peace and stop wars, he said.
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Groebler said his firm had no plans to follow other firms by expanding beyond Europe for now, adding that expectations that this could reap high profit margins was "wishful thinking" that had not been proven so far.
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Attorneys for Apple argue that the government is engaging in a bit of "wishful thinking" in portraying the act as a broad, adaptable tool that the courts can wield to draft private parties to help the government.
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Polito says that one of the reasons they asked people about their expectations was to see whether microdosing responses might be due to the placebo effect, or wishful thinking (which could be considered one and the same).
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There's a supportive energy around communication on September 7, but because of the Sun's opposition to Neptune, you must watch out for wishful thinking and confusion when it comes to your creative projects or your love life.
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It appeared to be a form of wishful thinking, not unlike the broad assumptions of most American newspapers in October that Hillary Clinton was the presumptive heir to the presidency of the United States -- not Donald Trump.
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Bach was contractually answerable for choosing the liturgical poetry he set to music, and modern-day critics, in a bit of wishful thinking, often proclaim that his theologically conservative choices were designed simply to please his employers.
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It could just be our wishful thinking, but if you look closely at the screengrab above it sort of looks like a miniature portal is opening in the place where the monster was pinned to the wall.
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Given this, Democrats would be making a terrible mistake to de-escalate the partisan fight unilaterally, out of a naïve sense of wishful thinking — that if only they're nice enough, Republicans will rediscover niceness in the future.
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In the short run, these attacks could occur if the Fed raises rates when the administration would prefer to avoid impediments to its wishful thinking on growth or to the continued run-up of the stock market.
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In 2005, Fisher was recognized with the Women of Vision Award by the Women in Film & Video – DC. Three years later, Fisher's Wishful Drinking autobiography was turned into a one-woman stage show and eventually an HBO documentary.
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They were actually quite an extreme communist-dominated nation, but in their ancient thinking, they know that to get the resources, a country needs to pander, if you will, to the values and wishful thinking of other countries.
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Despite the gloating, high-fiving and wishful thinking of the mainstream news media and Democrats like Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, ObamaCare has not been saved permanently from the congressional electric chair and the Trump presidency is not over.
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But the assumption in the president's budget that economic growth will reach and remain at 3 percent has led to an outcry from many experts — including us — that the administration is guilty of wishful thinking and fuzzy math.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - - It would be easy to dismiss the assertion by BHP Billiton Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie that commodity prices have bottomed as the wishful thinking of a mining executive keen to see some improvement in profit margins.
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And exactly at this moment when the reforms we were demanding were made tangible and workable, the doors to our negotiations was unilaterally closed by the Guggenheim's leaders and the period of wishful thinking on their part began.
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This week, hundreds of community pharmacists from across America will come to Washington, D.C., to talk solutions with their members of Congress — not theory, not wishful thinking, but practical solutions to the problem of rising prescription drug costs.
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The post-Iowa moment will go a long way toward deciding whether the conventional wisdom — that GOP voters will abandon their angry protest support for Trump in favor of more traditional candidates — is accurate or just wishful thinking.
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Yet for all the wishful thinking about Mr. Trump's imminent demise — they said repeatedly that even if he cleaned up in Tuesday's primaries, he could still lose the nomination fight — Republicans have not strongly coalesced around an alternative.
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His interest in a basic income was meant to synthesize the wishful and the practical; like many supporters, he touted it as a matter of both categorical principle and maximized good, and tried to make these virtues square.
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Maybe I am naïve or just a wishful thinker, but looking more broadly at old GPS devices to automated call prompts, I found that those voices tend to be more female than male helping back up this theory.
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Formula One has cancelled its usual August shutdown, bringing it forward and extending it to three weeks in March and April in the hope of rescheduling races from earlier in the season, but that may be wishful thinking.
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Two months later, he participated in a wishful attempt to levitate the Pentagon, and the following year, with Jerry Rubin, he led the prankish Youth International Party (the Yippies) toward the bloody fray outside the Democratic National Convention.
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And while House Speaker Paul Ryan still insists that Congress will repeal and replace it this year, his wishful statements are clearly meant in large measure just to placate the burn-it-all-down wing of his caucus.
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The other type of affirmative-action skeptic is the person who knows that this is wishful thinking but is unable to get his or her head around the idea that the way to end discrimination is by discriminating.
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Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, a series of U.S. presidents were misled by wishful thinking and strategic naiveté about the long-term ambitions of Russian leaders, who now threaten the American homeland.
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The Nixon-Kissinger-Clinton thesis — that helping China develop its economy would bring about a middle class that would then push the country to democratize and become a responsible stakeholder internationally — is now widely recognized as wishful thinking.
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He adds that some in his industry believe that President Trump may reverse his anti-legalization position before November 2020, in order to take that issue off the table, but Kennedy admits that may just be wishful thinking.
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In the mean time, while we're waiting for Mother Nature to catch the hell up, Dumont is preparing a whole roast chicken with a bevy of beautiful grilled spring vegetables as a form of truly delicious wishful thinking.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It is wishful thinking that the European Union will reopen Brexit negotiations if the British parliament votes down the deal Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed with Brussels, her de facto deputy David Lidington said on Tuesday.
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"There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you," she wrote in "Wishful Drinking," after detailing her diagnosis and an overdose incident.
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So it's easy to envision Amazon making some sort of wearable that would be simple, utilitarian in design, with the battery life of a Kindle (Okay, that's wishful thinking), and with an AI built in that was actually responsive.
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"I always see a lot of people saying,'Oh my gosh, a joint album with you guys would be really dope,' but, you know, those are the kinds of things that are just wishful thinking from fans," said Minaj.
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Hillary Clinton's policies to improve the education and skills of the American working class will be far better for finding good jobs in the globalized economy than wishful thinking that anyone can take us back to America's glory years.
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Many Twitter users have also taken the opportunity to reply with hilarious edits of their own — some of which are artfully done, others which mock the amount of effort Caballero put in, and some that show very wishful thinking.
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First—and this is wishful thinking, since 100 percent of the US Congress and the Supreme Court appear to be religious at the moment—is we could just embrace genetic editing and be better at it than the Chinese.
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It took me a couple of staring-at-the-grid sessions to fully get that and, at first, I indulged in a little wishful thinking that the theme was some sort of tribute to the late constructor Henry Hook.
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A watch and some self-care later, the wackness in Cloverfield believing itself to be the next Beyonce album-level success remains wishful on a scale that I hadn't seen since season 8 of the X-Files (no Mulder?).
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The government's document dispelled some of the wishful thinking expounded by Brexit supporters, debunking claims that withdrawal would lift the economy by permitting Britain to strike a new set of trade deals with fast-growing economies around the world.
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The theory, in any case, is that the damage is already done — though that may prove to be wishful thinking, as increased flooding causes introduced species to spread to new habitats, and to still other new habitats beyond that.
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The president's Amen chorus will dismiss this as wishful thinking by Never Trumpers — but unlike impeachment, or the pervasive corruption in his administration or his dangerously flawed policies from climate change to North Korea, this has tangible effects now.
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Ms. Middleton has also dated the banking heir J J Jardine Paterson and the former cricketer Alex Loudon, but a rumored romance with her sister's brother-in-law, Prince Harry, seems largely fictional — wishful thinking by the British tabloids.
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But Bennett says it's wishful thinking to assume that Democrats can reconfigure the electorate so decisively in 2020 that they no longer need to worry about moving too far left to hold conflicted voters in swing districts and states.
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But over the years, as many of the best teams in England began to put their emphasis on the Premier League and the Champions League instead of the F.A. Cup, the phrase more and more seemed like wishful thinking.
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Still, that investors have chosen to ignore the chaos in Washington highlights just how deep is the belief (others might consider it wishful thinking) that Mr. Trump, at his root, is a president who will deliver market-friendly policies.
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That thinking seems more wishful than ever when the man chosen to lead the world's most powerful country keeps saying that two pillars of postwar security and prosperity — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union — are obsolete.
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It would be easy to dismiss Scotty Bowers's tales about the sexual proclivities of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, and his role in their lustful undertakings, as the wishful thinking of an elderly man with a big imagination.
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The "foolishness and stupidity" of U.S. policy towards Russia was the failure of the Obama administration to see this — to recognize Russian hostility and adjust our approach accordingly, rather than pushing a "reset" born of naiveté and wishful thinking.
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"Though I would caution that my optimism should not tip investors into what I would call irrational exuberance or wishful thinking that OPEC or the kingdom will underwrite the investments of others at our own expense and long-term interests."
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"The relationship... is at such a historic low that it would be wishful thinking to assume that new concrete agenda items to advance will come at this point," Jason Marczak, director of the Atlantic Council's Latin America Economic Growth Initiative said.
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One of those leading that opposition, lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, said in a newspaper article that it was "wishful thinking" that time away from parliament over the Christmas holiday could persuade him to change his mind and back the deal.
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I do wonder if there was some wishful thinking there, given the fact that I had just had a horse's placenta and live snails on my face, but all I can say is that my face felt good after the snails.
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Along with the tweet, Joely, who is the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens, also shared a throwback photo of her and Reynolds, 84, laughing and smiling at the Hollywood premiere of Carrie's HBO documentary Wishful Drinking in 2010.
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