Sentence examples for wishfulness from high-quality English sources.

• Like all such promises, this one proves to be illusory, and their wishfulness comes at a cost.

• Instagram, like the Standard, offered a community of sorts, albeit one distorted by wishfulness and omission.

• What she’d regarded as an exercise in positive thinking—this is all temporary, things will return to normal soon—now felt like wishfulness.

• Here was a world just like the one I found myself in, portrayed in the sharpest, most penetrating language imaginable, free of piety or wishfulness.

• During the last days of 1963, at the height of the widowed First Lady’s public deification, Pearson writes, with more wishfulness than evidence, that “resentment against Jackie is mounting” among Washington ladies who lunch.

• The most American thing about his films, today, might be the masks they wear—a realism based not on classical beacons of meaning but on the veils of wishfulness and contradiction which obscure such meanings in the human wild.

• As the clip made the rounds on Monday morning, it was possible to daydream, with the kind of wishfulness to which one becomes increasingly susceptible as the distress of this Presidency continues, that the bad booking was the work of a saboteur.

• John Moorlach, a Republican accountant who is one of Orange County’s five elected supervisors, argues that both the 1994 bankruptcy and the current pension quagmire derived from the same wishfulness: “Citron hoped that interest rates would go down, and pension-fund managers hope the stock market goes up and up and up.”

Use wishfulness in a sentence.

• In the theories of origin put forward by fans, critics, and other origin-obsessives, the idea of Superman has been accounted the offspring or recapitulation, in no particular order, of Friedrich Nietzsche; of Philip Wylie (in his novel “Gladiator”); of the strengths, frailties, and neuroses of his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, of Cleveland, Ohio; of the aching wishfulness of the Great Depression; of the (Jewish) immigrant experience; of the mastermind stratagems of popular texts in their sinister quest for reader domination; of repressed Oedipal fantasies and homoerotic wishes; of fascism; of capitalism; of the production modes of mass culture (and not in a good way); of celebrated strongmen and proponents of physical culture like Eugen Sandow; and of a host of literary not-quite-Superman precursors, chief among them Doc Savage.