Sentences with phrase «sort 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.

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To claim that Jesus was imaginary is delusional requiring magical thinking of the most extraordinary sort to explain how Christianity became established.

Insane people think Humans are some sort of 4th magical being that's not in anyway related to animals despite that whole pesky «genetics» thing pretty much guaranteeing we are.

Americans are hoping for some sort of magical door into the mystical, thinking that there's some mysterious reason for things, a cosmic explanation.»

Why do you think that being a republic has some sort of magical power to override the will of the «overwhelming majority» of the people that the question talks about?

It's only a magical sort of paper, so publishers who can think beyond the present transition period, should continue to attract and promote the best authors.

Well, I'm starting to think that everything in the Jackson Galaxy Collection by Petmate has some sort of magical ingredient — or maybe the magic is simply that the entire collection was designed with input from the Cat Daddy himself.

Clearly Dr. Bain is the sort of well meaning but ultimately foolish folk who treat rhetoric as magical thinking, that if they come up with the right magical incantation, that their opponents will suddenly go, «OK, sure, here's my property, free speech, and other natural rights, silly me, what was I thinking, because you MEAN WELL.»

The Obama administration succumbed, like many others, to a sort of magical climate thinking that promised a painless and even prosperous transition to a low - carbon future with the tools already at hand.

This is REALLY interesting and something I've noticed myself, actually... sort of a «magical thinking» effect.