Sentence examples for dose of wish from inspiring English sources

Opposing ambitions collide when the father kidnaps the singer in a film that "delivers an innocuous dose of wish filfillment," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

The Weinstein version of "Grace" apparently shows Kelly's story as a light fairy tale with a strong dose of wish fulfillment; French director Dahan and producer Le Pogam have fashioned a more melodramatic‎ account that highlights Kelly's hardships upon her arrival in the monarchy.

The movie delivers an innocuous dose of pop wish fulfillment, in which the machinery of fame, from the record industry to the television news, is ultimately benign, able to make everybody happy.

An MTV gag in Episode 2 starring Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren and Matt Pinfield — a dose of 40-something wish fulfillment — will get attention, but Mr. Armisen and Ms. Brownstein's best creations are still Candace and Toni, the frightening proprietors of the feminist bookstore Women and Women First.

This seemed to unnerve the other Republican candidates, most of whom are burdened by a personal history that does not involve quite as big a dose of family values as they might wish.

Furthermore, some patients in the usual care group wished to reduce the dose of other drugs, because TNF inhibitor treatment was aimed to remain stable.

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These early, squirm-inducing scenes portend a film that will refute Hollywood romantic comedy's wish-fulfillment tendencies with a rude dose of reality.

Recession is still beyond the horizon, though many economists and politicians wish they could arrange just a slight dose of it.

Wish you could get an even bigger dose of the heady drag buzz they're serving?

(4) Shatter son's heart by telling him you wish he had never been born, then take extra-large dose of morphine.