Sentence examples for impossible wish from inspiring English sources

It's an impossible wish, of course; the past isn't fixable.

An impossible wish, but at least it wasn't raining.

What do you say in response to such a wistful, straightforward, impossible wish?

"One World Trade Center and every other structure on the site hold our impossible wish: to have back everyone who was lost on Sept. 11," Judith Dupré wrote in "One World Trade Center: Biography of the Building".

In this episode, reminiscent of her controversial House of Splendid Isolation, O'Brien gives us a brief, ambiguous alliance between the infamous Shane, who, though now free, will "always be a wanted man", and Mona, who taught him painting in prison and now has the simple, impossible wish to share with Shane a peaceful country lunch.

She longed to take photographs of the procedure, write it up and send it to Experimental Dentistry, an impossible wish as the only mail that came to Hell consisted of bills for the inhabitants and no mail at all went out.

But having scores of impossible wishes on your list will only camouflage those tasks that you actually need to do.

The complaints, the differences, impossible wishes for how things might be instead, they just hadn't yet been spoken aloud. .

It is, of course, impossible to wish away the changes of the past 30 years.

Because, after all, once one is there, with the sunlight sparkling on the water, the gulls circling overhead, the sailboats luffing their jibs and the waves crashing on the sand, it is practically impossible to wish to be anywhere else.

Of course, opponents of inclusive capitalism will point out that it is impossible to wish away all trade-offs and that at the margin - being economists, that is where they will go - there are always trade-offs.