wishfulness

IPA: wˈɪʃfʌɫnʌs

Examples of "wishfulness" in Sentences

I guess it was said more in wishfulness than in truth.
This is where this otherwise admirably researched report slips into wishfulness.
The Chilcot inquiry has amply demonstrated the role of "wishfulness" and "yesmanship" in the decision to go to war.
The tone was can-do optimistic, avoiding the wishfulness and idealized trappings that so often seem delusional in retrospect in favor of pragmatism.
With Germany reeling from Alamein and Stalingrad, it was prone to that "wishfulness" and "yesmanship" that are the cardinal sins of counter-deception.
It was in his voice and face, a bitter wishfulness, and I understood of course that he was telling me things, true or not, only because I was here, we were both here, in isolation, drinking.