Sentence examples for element of wishful from inspiring English sources

There's an element of wishful thinking.

But there was perhaps also an element of wishful thinking.

There is a strong element of wishful thinking in this.

There's also, one has to say, an element of wishful thinking here.

Not unlike that President, Minaj's preoccupation with numbers also reflects an element of wishful thinking.

They might well be right, but is there also an element of wishful thinking?

Contest Two, the strategy for taming Islamist-inspired terror unveiled yesterday, goes some way towards solutions, and reflects genuine strategic thinking; but it also contains worrying elements of muddle and wishful thinking.

The fact that one story — the theory of the four elements and their corresponding four temperaments in human life — endured for 2,000 years is a triumph of wishful thinking over cold evidence.

But some interpretations of that result smack of wishful thinking.

A lot of wishful thinking seems priced into such multiples.

Seltzer dismisses this argument as "the fallacy of wishful thinking".