magical thinking

You get out of the magical thinking of waiting passively for a miracle to happen.

Here's how: you've got to ditch the "magical thinking" that somehow you'll lose weight, and you'll figure out a plan as you go along.

At this point, you will have ceased to use magical thinking that made you just imagine "What if I were like this? "

You get the sense that this was almost a magical thinking, where she thought that writing these stories was keeping her alive.

There is another strange parallel between The Year of Magical Thinking and A Widow's Story.

Exhausted by the political stalemate, they've been reduced to magical thinking, hoping that things will eventually get better by themselves.

It will inevitably be compared with that other recent memoir of widowhood, Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" .

There was magical thinking; there was also magical doing.

But magical thinking underlies a vast, often unseen universe of small rituals that accompany people through every waking hour.

Use the child's magical thinking.

These fears make little sense in themselves; some invoke more or less magical thinking.

This is how a memoir like "The Year of Magical Thinking" (2005) became a bestseller.

It is important to avoid "magical thinking" .

Alternatively, we can persist in the magical thinking whose results have just come crashing home.

The Year of Magical Thinking, Knopf