Sentence examples for wishing as from inspiring English sources

Salewicz deploys a vast weight of fact and opinion to point up this upbeat conclusion and, despite the nagging sense that he is wishing as much as knowing, you can't help but pray that he is right.

Disappointed, she decides to wish for other bears who like wishing as much as she does.

Such, indeed, is Strathern's flair for vivid description and snappy dialogue that you can't help wishing, as you get a little way into this book, that he had written it as a novel.

Art — exalted, derided — infiltrates every corner of "Jeff in Venice," and I found myself wishing, as I read it, that the text were interspersed with pictures, as in a W. G. Sebald novel.

By Ligaya Mishan May 9, 2009 Art — exalted, derided — infiltrates every corner of "Jeff in Venice," and I found myself wishing, as I read it, that the text were interspersed with pictures, as in a W. G. Sebald novel.

He swallowed a mouthful of beer and used his palm to dry the ring left on the table, wishing, as he did, that he were the kind of person who could let such things go.

I wish as well I could prove it was not.

You can use the device however you wish as long as you obey the law.

The spectators applauded him and shouted well wishes as soon as he was saddled.

Social workers tend to consider the children's wishes as long as their preference is for maternal custody.

Many of us have even wished as much.