Sentences with phrase «type of magical thinking»

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.

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.

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.

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They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.