Sentence examples for fulfilment a from inspiring English sources
In the New Yorker, Pauline Kael swatted it aside as "a crock … the opening salute of the Bush era"; Time called it "the male weepie at its wussiest"; the Nation said "it gives wish fulfilment a bad name".
Transhumanism often suffers as a form of wish fulfilment: a lot of people will tell you they'd like to be able to fly, but these very same people can rarely be bothered to go running.
We yearn for greater personal meaning and fulfilment; a 'something more' for ourselves.
The simple, psuedo-psychoanalytical answer is that it's an act of wish fulfilment, a form of controlling a latent desire that I'll probably never allow myself to indulge fully in the flesh.
Eisdorfer (1991) identified several motivations to care: a sense of love or reciprocity, spiritual fulfilment, a sense of duty, guilt, or social pressures.
He was always striving to reconcile his attraction to the atavism of the blues with his need for intellectual fulfilment, an alliance of id and superego that only Captain Beefheart ever equalled.
"It's an early Christmas present and at the same time a fulfilment of a dream," said Jarvis.
In this way, drunken behaviour can sometimes be wish-fulfilment, a way of giving oneself permission to behave differently; here, the spectrum is vast.
The research was approved by the University Hospital Ethics and Technical Research Committee and was carried out as a partial fulfilment for a Masters Degree in Emergency Medicine.
The participant quoted below demonstrates how a lack of emotional fulfilment in a stable relationship can motivate a person to seek fulfilment from an outside partner: I have a vivid example.
