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magical thinking

noun

  1. a conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder.


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Didion would go on to write “The White Album,” her classic 1979 collection of essays, and move to New York before publishing two memoirs — 2005’s “The Year of Magical Thinking” and 2011’s “Blue Nights” — that became mammoth bestsellers.

That could be magical thinking.

From Salon

“I don’t think there’s magical thinking that’s going to get us out of it.”

Although I had more options in my closet, I cycled through only two pairs of jeans for all of fifth grade because I had doused them in magical thinking, believed they were the only pants that could mask the thighs I now sported.

But when a reporter for the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group asked how he would make prices drop, Trump’s response was an untethered excursion into magical thinking.

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