Sentences with phrase «called magical thinking»

Part of this has to do with what's called magical thinking, which is the same phenomenon that makes a two - year - old insist on only using a pink spoon (because food won't taste as good with another utensil) or results in her refusing baths since she is quite certain that children can disappear down that drain.

It's a remarkably common phenomenon called magical thinking, and it's remarkably destructive.

You call it magical thinking David.

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Their mindset on financial matters defies logic so I'm just going to call it what it is: magical thinking.

The new manifesto urges humanity to «leave behind the magical thinking and myth - making that are substitutes for tested knowledge of nature,» notes that religions «have their origins in pre-urban nomadic and agricultural societies of the past» and are irrelevant to the «postindustrial global information culture that is emerging,» and calls for a World Parliament.

You were let down by the magical thinking of the so - called «baby friendly» hospital staff.

2011 in cinema could be called, with apologies to Joan Didion, the year of magical thinking.

Well, at this point, all of Duncan's «turnaround» schools seem to have blended into one magical place we might call «Dramatically Better Elementary,» but in this case we think he might be talking about Sherman, the turnaround model for 2007 (Chicago has a new model every year).

which I think was a huge element of evo's own best drivers cars of all time feature about ten years ago including that magical old fashioned bonus called steering feel, those with it did exceptionally well... please evo, you are a magazine written by drivers for drivers.

When you think of home, do you imagine tropical breezes, magical sunrises and paradise to call your own?

«I saw myself as being one of those guys,» he says, and assumed that if only he could acquire what he thought of as their «superpower» skills — «a magical thing called The Mastery» — he'd be on his way.

# 125 Kevin McKinney said Killian called it «magical thinking», but I think it's only that if no practical effort is made to achieve it.

There is something gloriously self - referential about playing the straw man card in a post in which you, for no apparent reason, explicitly re-interpret «quite conceivable» to mean «kind of likely», then call it «magical thinking», quote a psych text in case we don't know what magical thinking is and dismiss it out of hand.