Sentences with phrase «of magical thinking»

Unless, he can make us somehow dependent upon him week after week for the next piece of magical thinking.

And that a certain level of magical thinking is necessary for living a creative life.

This is only partly a coincidence: the prevalence of such devices suggests that commercial filmmakers don't believe their audiences can comprehend science without the help of magical thinking.

Have you read The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion?

«Like The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Beyond the High Blue Air is a spare, sharp memoir about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief.»?

Instead, I think they just had the type of magical thinking too common among smart DC policy analysts that if only they had good enough intentions and «messaged» the issue just right, all problems would be overcome.

What's troubling about this study is not the fact that these parents have put both their own emergency cushions and retirement funds ahead of saving for college for their kids — that's exactly as it should be says Jean Keener, a Financial Advisor from Keller, TX — but rather the sort of magical thinking that's going on behind the scenes.

But I get tired of the magical thinking of syrupy sentimental optimism that lives in a la - la land of denial.

But to live next to a dam and never fathom a breach is not a uniquely Texan brand of magical thinking.

And perhaps expecting short - term money to transform schools is a kind of magical thinking that the issues that plague these schools can be «fixed» by temporary funds.

But there's a lot of magical thinking in all of this when you zoom out from this myopic way of defining progress.

She adapted The Year of Magical Thinking for a Scott Rudin - produced play starring Vanessa Redgrave.

I came into the MFA Program as a painter but not really understanding what painting is (this was the time of BFAs in self - exploration) and found myself in a space of magical thinking where I assumed, now that I was in the same program that graduated the likes of Chuck Close and Brice Marden, I would suddenly be able to paint anything I wanted.

There's plenty of magical thinking, though.

Well done in a sea of magical thinking.

It's always hilarious in a» where laughing at you, not with you» kinda way when a person who believes in the power of magical thoughts and sky - fairies attempt to mock others.

David A. Stewart, in Thirst for Freedom, describes the operation of the alcoholic's narcissism as «the little dictator,» an unconscious complex of magical thinking, false pride, fear, anger, lack of insight, and resistance to facing one's need for outside help.

There are only gullible people like yourself, who have been suckered into the ancient, illogical, stagnant mythology of magical thinking and others, like me, who choose to pursue the scientific method and spend the rest of my life improving my own knowledge with new discoveries and participating in the great modern renaissance of mankind!

It's important to be on the lookout for evidence of magical thinking after you announce your divorce or... MORE separation so that you can help your child work through the emotions she's feeling.

These moments of magical thinking fly by faster than Santa would need to travel to complete his furious dash around the world.

At the three - day Second Global Conference on Magic and the Supernatural, researchers will discuss the neuroscience of magical thinking and the ways some traumatized individuals try to cope with abuse and tragedy by attributing their suffering to mystical forces or imaginary beings instead of admitting that someone they love has hurt them.

He is a former news editor for Psychology Today and is the author of The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, about the psychology of superstition and religion.

Our Super Proteins are created close to where CS Lewis created the magical world of Narnia and we hope a little of his magical thinking has rubbed off on us as we draw upon our imagination to create these special one - of - a kind Super Proteins.

Shopping provided me with a very interesting version of magical thinking at this time.

Soon, she darts off abruptly, and the only means Ian has to find her again is through her eyes and a bit of magical thinking.

The answer, with apologies to Joan Didion, is largely due to the stubborn persistence of magical thinking.

At its extreme, there's no better illustration of magical thinking than the Bernie Madoff saga.

A Darger-esque darkness is at play amid the Disney innocence — for Ellen, drawing was a survival strategy and a profound expression of magical thinking — and thus her passion can be as disconcerting as the content of her art.

Fazzolari may intuit that in a distressed consumer economy - or a robust one, for that matter - a designer fragrance is the scent of magical thinking.

Psychoanalysts connect folklore traditions and superstitions to the idea of magical thinking by investigating series of actions or events which are fundamentally unrelated.

That's what doesn't register amongst the Tea Party, and where much of its magical thinking about the environment falls apart — you can't protect the nation's air, water, and wildlife just by being a determined, individual citizen and guiding your personal choice towards the morally correct end.

In this, Obama was following two decades of magical thinking among both greens and liberal Democrats about energy technology.

After two decades of domestic and international failure to take real action on climate change, it is time for the purveyors of magical thinking to take their exit so that the main act can begin.

The scenarios that don't rely on this type of magical thinking assume that global emissions peaked around 2010, a concept hard to square with what we've seen thus far.

This potentially makes us all victims of magical thinking, as we collectively agree that the CO2 from all those North Carolina trees is not flooding into the atmosphere over a short timeframe, thus contributing to climate change right now — at the moment when we most need to reduce carbon emissions.

On the eve of LegalTech, I have been encountering a lot of magical thinking recently when talking with law firm partners about Legal Project Management.

Such a profile results in ignoring and underestimating signs of children's physical and psychological symptoms as a result of magical thinking or maintaining unrealistic goals and impractical expectations for a child.

When writing of her husband's death in her book The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion said «the» instant, and in Joan Didion's wake nothing else seems right.

Religion is the ultimate example of magical thinking.

There is something about a tool that causes us to engage in a sort of magical thinking, like a Harry Potter mirror that reflects a more desirable version of ourselves.

Or am I merely engaged in my own form of magical thinking?»

Many of us torture ourselves with this brand of magical thinking: If I worry now, it will help keep the bad thing away.

It is this kind of magical thinking, seen previously in Volvo's beeping helmet and other techno - fixes, where beeping half - baked electronic solutions are offered instead of what we really need — driver education and safe infrastructure.

Whether you are more likely to swap investment tips with friends at neighborhood parties or with bridge partners at the Palm Beach Country Club, you're no less immune from the same type of magical thinking that led otherwise smart people to believe Madoff could churn out consistently high returns year after year.

Have you read Joan Didion's book, The Year of Magical Thinking?

Of course, Percy approached the themes of the day from a religious perspective that Didion resists («No eye was on the sparrow,» she declares in her memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking).