IN fact, there was enough wish-fulfillment in the left's view of Mr. Bush that it's hard to disagree with Anne Coulter, a conservative writer, who said last month that Mr. Bush had shown "how easy it is to hornswoggle liberals".
The bartender said the trouble was that people didn't bring enough wishes with them.
Naturally enough, wishing to withhold his/her identity, s/he said: "It might seem minor but the current signs show we are at the heart of the community.
I'm not pretty enough, I wish my hair was longer, I want to be taller, I hate my ears, my legs are too skinny.
I like Ballet Theater (and ballet) enough to wish it would do these things with more sheer showmanship.
Not all Dundee fans are psychotic enough to wish relegation pain on United for its own sake.
Life in the household is so claustrophobic that there are times when Mother Riant, as Regina's mother is known, is "lonely enough to wish death drank tea".
For Lynn Barber in the Sunday Times, "the childhood he describes in this haunting memoir sounds almost Dickensian – the constant gnawing hunger, the slop bucket in the bedroom … The book ends at this point so we learn nothing of his later career in politics … but we know enough to wish that all politicians could be like Alan Johnson.
The novel in its traditional format, firmly stitched and sturdily clothbound, is bought either by libraries or by readers who take fiction seriously enough to wish to acquire a novel as soon as it appears: if they wait 12 months or so, they can buy the novel in paper covers for less than its original price.
For those employers which decide this isn't enough and wish to move towards closure of their final salary schemes then there is the promise that alternatives will be beefed up to give staff more certainty about where their retirement savings are heading.
Fair enough, we wish more companies would take that tact, so we can't begrudge him there.
