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wishful
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Thus, he suggests, hope is not a forlorn wishfulness or Polyanna-ish optimism, but a deeply grounded method of knowledge that demands of us a "radical temporal reorientation of knowledge" (p.
The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy and Fijian Knowledge by Ewins, Roderick / Pacific Affairs
Sowell has elsewhere described the experience of awakening from the democratic socialist dream as the end to a period of intellectual wishfulness.
The beginning of economic wisdom by Novak, Michael / The National Interest
But such wishfulness seems to pay off at the box office and in the ratings.
ON SCREEN, BILL'S BETTER SELF : Hollywood's would-be president by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
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