Unfortunately, our passions make for a lot of sloppy and willful historical thinking and writing.
It is a pattern of wishful thinking, blinding moral outrage, willful ignorance of foreign cultures, a naive faith in American triumphalism, a contempt for the messy compromises of diplomacy, and a knee-jerk refusal to do anything the way the Clinton administration did it.
Reading this passage in recent months led me to think about the catastrophic devaluation of intellection that seems to have occurred in American society: the willful repudiation of rigorous thinking, and objective facts, that helped propel Trump to victory.
So there's no time for denial, willful blindness, or wishful thinking.
The designer shoe industry, to some extent, relies on the willful suspension of rational thinking, the giving over to a more primal urge (to shop, that is) in order to move merchandise that common sense would suggest is patently, obscenely, even self-destructively overpriced.
In the final analysis, this crisis has been fueled by the same combination of greed, dishonesty, willful blindness and wishful thinking that has generated every disaster of capitalism from the Dutch tulip collapse through the Great Depression, the Enron and WorldCom scandals, and the dot-com bust.
He stated them well enough to begin with, and I sincerely believe that the backlash to his attack (if you can call it that) on the internet's holy cow is based in willful misunderstanding and wishful thinking.
Not accepting evolution as a fact is engaging in the willful suspension of critical thinking.
Is Wills's blindness willful?
Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.
