wishfully

• “George Steevens remarks that the 4to. of 1598 reads "wishfully," a variation which should be noted, and perhaps adopted, but, printing from the folio, we retained "wilfully.”

  Introduction

• “(Hat-tip to Tim Roll-Pickering, who unlike most Tories actually understands Europe and thinks, in my opinion a bit wishfully, that this won't last.)”

  Things that caught my eye

• “The voodoo economics is the effort to combine the social democratic and neoliberal models, or wishfully think that tax cuts pay for themselves.”

  The Guardian: Letters: The ramifications of Scottish independence

• “Favreau was so wishfully thought upon as director of the Avengers, mostly because of his success with Iron Man; not only was it a kick-ass stand-alone film, but we got the sense that he truly understood the characters and could deliver.”

  No Favreau For Avengers « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more

• “Others can coddle the fools who dither and simper wishfully over gods and old myths and apologetics, but some of us have to charge forward and stake out a solid position, one that excludes altogether the ancient fairy tales.”

  Berlinski stirring the pot

• “But "Three Seconds" is the first Roslund and Hellstrom book that has been wishfully packaged to suggest that "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has a second cousin.”

  The Huffington Post: Swedish Crime Thrillers Ride 'Dragon Tattoo' Coattails

• “Indeed Alain Minc, an unofficial adviser to Sarkozy, has suggested – perhaps wishfully – that Sarko would look better when a socialist candidate entered the race.”

  The Guardian: Nicolas Sarkozy: Is France falling in love again? | Peter Beaumont

• “UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, whose team lost to Oregon last season in a brutal 60-13 rout, predicted perhaps a bit wishfully that Oregon may soon be solved.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Oregon's Case for the Hall of Geniuses

• “In contrast, they appear to favor the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, wishfully assuming the organization has moderated its Islamist ideology, or could possibly act as a bulwark against Iran.”

  The Huffington Post: Ida Lichter, M.D.: Women's Rights Can't Flower In Arab Spring

• “You can ask wishfully that things might be as you would like them to be or you deal with them as they are, and I think we have to deal with them as they are.”

  Clarence B. Jones: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of al-Qaeda, Parts 1 and 2

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