wishful

1 That’s wishful thinking, alas, which only incites crusading abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to bristle, “It is not all right! No matter what date it is!”

2 Weiss fails to realize that she herself is an example of the wishful thinking about Judaism that is ubiquitous among American Jewish liberals.

3 Both titles contain a strong element of wishful thinking.

4 her wishful attempts to change her husband's bad habits

5 Not unlike that President, Minaj’s preoccupation with numbers also reflects an element of wishful thinking.

6 Her “Emily” is a confident directorial debut and an enjoyably irreverent take on Brontë, one that builds on the scant historical record to construct an imaginary, at times wishful portrait of the artist.

7 Such a modish, and mercantile, spin on wishful thinking has spawned its own litter of films and self-help guides.

8 The pandemic, of course, is where Trump’s willful and wishful ignorance turned the most deadly.

9 The chief complaint of her detractors – on no basis more solid than their own wishful thinking – is that Michelle Obama should have attempted to break the First Lady mold, not fit into it.

10 “I remember how, as a boy, primitive American architecture — Toltec, Aztec, Mayan, Inca — stirred my wonder, excited my wishful admiration,” Wright wrote.

11 The team needs to be realistic rather than wishful thinking mode.

团队必须用现实的思维模式而非想象的思维模式。

12 Mr. Duhamel is so good-looking that female viewers may give his character the benefit of the doubt, simply out of wishful thinking.

13 But when it came to vocals, there was a lot of wishful thinking this season, especially on the part of challenged celebrities like Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl” and Hugh Jackman in “The Music Man.”

14 After the second season of wishful thinking failed to produce any result, I resolved to remedy the productivity fail with action.

15 It may be wishful thinking that even reduced, distanced concerts will be widespread, at least among American ensembles that lack European levels of government funding.

16 But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that taking the art of La Convivencia purely as a record of cross-cultural harmony is wishful.

17 Talking about directing in blockbusters is sometimes nothing more than wishful thinking.

18 I’m wondering whether you have direct knowledge of him as a person, as opposed to wishful thinking, that contradicts or mitigates what your — or I should say, his — friends know about him.

19 That is probably wishful thinking.

这可能只是一种痴心妄想。

20 “He can see McNamara asking the wrong questions, getting wishful answers,” George Packer, Mr. Holbrooke’s biographer, says, referring to a visit to the country by Robert S. McNamara, then the secretary of defense.

1 很想得到

use

2 愿望

wish pleasure aspiration longing

3 渴望着

itching yearning thirstily

4 希望

light hope future trust care like please wish have in view

5 想望

want

6 渴望的

passionary keen-set sick keen hungry eager anxious avid craving greedy itchy thirsty longing wistful covetous solicitous prurient longed-for raring passional sharp-set itching fain athirst hot ready desirous yearning aspirant agog intent ravenous lickerish on edge

7 怀有希望的

expectant hopeful

8 渴望

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