wishfulness

Some are even looking to Japan, although admittedly with a great degree of wishfulness.

For sheer wishfulness in denying reality, that must come close to a record.

Our own wishfulness makes these weeks seem a perpetual season, a part of the year when time almost pretends to stop.

The cottages and camps have names of a striving wishfulness.

Most Americans apparently believed that, sucking on the pacifier of wishfulness.

He was being judged by a standard that was more romantic wishfulness than reality.

It's a cozy-comfy state of wishfulness where everybody assumes that the protective walls will stay up.

Levi is properly skeptical about what seems a touch of wishfulness on the part of another thinking man.

But as Mr. Franklin's book makes clear, the believers are themselves held hostage to wishfulness.

Let's not hide behind wishfulness.

To keep that leap as reasoned as possible, not entirely the product of wishfulness or fatuous optimism, is our problem.

Depends on which is stronger - their wishfulness about the Soviet Union, or their detestation of Israel.

It is strong on heartfelt narrative but equally strong on preachy sentiment and wishfulness.

It is a little late to raise consistency as a standard and to raise naivete and wishfulness as obstacles.

"My ambition for the play came from a wishfulness that the theater was a place for language, but language is taken for stasis.

It has an ethereal quality, a reverence for poetics, a dreamy wishfulness that makes me wonder how it will play onstage.

His cries ceased like magic, and I had a moment of intense wishfulness that I could do something that immediately effective for her.

"They might say they want to leave, but I don't think they deeply mean that," he said, with some wishfulness, of his classmates at the high school.

Mr. Merritt's euphony reveals the wishfulness of Schoenberg's conception.

He knew that song for its wishfulness, a wish that all of this were ended, all past, all doubts banished, tranquility returned.

Variety described the film as "a glossy, fairy-tale romance that's longer on wishfulness than believability" and "a modest but sharply mounted comedy/melodrama."

That wishfulness is recapitulated in "Struck Dumb," in which the actor asks, "What is endless?"

But I don't, out of embarrassment for my wishfulness, for the U.N. and my country and their unfulfilled promises.

With little in the way of a written record as a guide, tonight's students of Romany must rely on oral tradition and perhaps a touch of wishfulness.

But only wishfulness is behind the hope that China, North Korea, Iran and Iraq will obey nuclear treaties unless their current leaders are good and gone.