Sentences with phrase «like wishful thinking»

A lot of people felt disappointed with Forza Motorsport 5 and a sequel to the critically acclaimed Horizon game on the 360 seemed like wishful thinking more than an impending release but, it happened and boy did Playground Games smash it out of the park.

Sounds more like wishful thinking on your part.

That sounds like wishful thinking though.

Maybe, but that sure looks like wishful thinking at the moment.

Well, Shatzkin's comment sounds very much like wishful thinking on the part of a committed legacy veteran.

When we do this the traditional expectations of Christianity's future look very much like wishful thinking.

This one seems like wishful thinking at this stage.

Since one's vote is highly unlikely (nigh impossible) to influence the outcome of an election, it's easy for people to adopt biases like wishful thinking.

Samsung could also change it up and surprise its fans by releasing the S9 earlier than expected, but that just seems like wishful thinking at this point.

On past performance, falling consumption looks like wishful thinking.

Harry Potter director David Yates's recent announcement that he's working on a big - screen adaptation of Doctor Who is sounding more and more like wishful thinking on Yates's part than something that will, you know, actually ever happen.

Unless we experience ten years of durable growth, which sounds like wishful thinking, public finance in the developed world seems to be heading into a storm.

First, because $ 457 is more like wishful thinking on their part.

I can totally get «wouldn't it be cool if our sense of consciousness survived our physical deaths and we got to hang out with the consciousnesses of all the people we loved who died» but the jump from that to «I'm positive we have immortal souls» seems too much like wishful thinking that's been codified by some form of group consensus.

That seems like wishful thinking.

But it seems like wishful thinking to assume that four to five years after a nominal shock, you can fix the economy with monetary stimulus.

Sounds like wishful thinking.

Without an exact date as to when this would happen it is more like wishful thinking that turned out to be correct.

Getting Raboit and Draxler in January would be perfect but going by the way our club does things that sounds like wishful thinking.

Seems like wishful thinking.

But this seems like wishful thinking.

It all still sounds like wishful thinking, though.

A tenfold drop in price and a manyfold increase in launch frequency might seem like wishful thinking.

«Delivering on its promise of assuring a healthy India should be the topmost priority of the Indian Government... In the context of the enormous challenges and constraints faced by India's health - care system, this goal might seem like wishful thinking.

With our everyday lives getting busier, finding the time to get to a gym and exercise might seem like wishful thinking.

Shortly after NCLB was signed into law, Robert Linn, one of the most prominent psychometricians of the past several decades, called» the target of 100 % proficient or above according to the NAEP standards more like wishful thinking than a realistic possibility.»

At this point, that looks like wishful thinking, with a divisive ballot fight looking more likely than a bejeweled education bill.

There was once a time where the idea of a comic in the U.S. market about Vikings seemed like wishful thinking, but then Brian Wood broke the ice with Northlanders at Vertigo.

This strikes me as dumb, or perhaps more like wishful thinking that if credit expands, growth will drive incomes higher and somehow these will catch up (with some acceptable lag).

Right now, the idea that these guys will start effectively paying a salary to travel bloggers seems like wishful thinking.

Micchelli answers: «I would like to say, without irony, «Sure it is,» which may sound like wishful thinking, and perhaps it is.

In light of how quickly and thoroughly that threat came to pass, the second statement seems like wishful thinking.

For the first hour of the Hirst affair Dennison's 450 - person estimate looked like wishful thinking.

The most problematic aspect of this story is that I find it difficult to explain how the Danish press release can be based on science but on is more like wishful thinking.

While this may have sounded like wishful thinking a few short years ago, these activists are actually building on a growing number of communities that have already taken such pledges — and some who appear to have achieved them.

That all seems like wishful thinking, alas it can be achieved.

The secret hope that maybe she was just being clever — making sure she said nothing that would forewarn the greenhouse mafia so she could strike deeply when the time came to act — began to look like wishful thinking.

So industry self - regulation seems very much like wishful thinking.

Or maybe it was more like wishful thinking.

Getting the right people on board within given constraints of time and money may sometimes seem like wishful thinking.