Sentences with phrase «mostly wishful»

There's a lot of mostly wishful talk about the potential impact of the E.P.A. power plant rules on international treaty talks this year and next.

But let's face it, that's mostly wishful thinking.

Not exact matches

That friendly new era is mostly just wishful thinking.

And in truth, egregious fibs like the spurious mammogram claim mostly stem from wishful thinking on the part of defenders of the abortion giant, rather than from its own publicity materials.

Those in favour of a break with the EU often paint a rosy picture in which the UK is able to get what it wants and maintain unfettered access to the single market while sceptics tend to assume that the EU can not offer to renege on some core principle like the freedom of movement for persons but at this stage it's mostly guesswork (and possibly quite a bit of bluff / wishful thinking on both sides).

Many are hoping that Terence Malick's «Knight Of Cups» (or its untitled companion piece) and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Inherent Vice» will be viable, but that mostly seems like wishful thinking: who knows when the Malick picture (s) will be ready, or if he'll be back at Cannes, while PTA's increasingly been taking less traditional routes, and a December release date suggests a fall bow might be more likely.

But those expectations have mostly been based on speculation, rumors, and, admittedly, wishful thinking.