Sentence examples for represent wishes from inspiring English sources

The tomb is covered in sets of three "X s, drawn or scratched on by visitors to represent wishes they hope the famed sorceress will grant.

Or does the idealistic country-lawyer persona of the fictional President Josiah Bartlet represent wish fulfillment on the part of the audience?

Dreams represent wish-fulfilment, so in her dream the would-be starlet arrives in Hollywood giving a perfect performance in her first audition.

Bruno had seen men pronounce themselves instantaneous players before, gripped by a fever upon discovering that high-stakes backgammon existed, and captured by the romance Bruno represented, wishing to climb into his skin.

If movies are dreams, and if dreams represent disguised wishes, then Hollywood movies, created by many hands under high economic pressure, disguise the wishes of something like the hive mind of capitalism.

In their reluctance, they represent the wishes of the majority of their people.

It said a majority of 64percentt felt that the Netanyahu coalition's policies "do not represent" their wishes.

Meanwhile, the US government claimed that the celebrations on the island did not represent the wishes of the majority of Cubans.

Western governments are rightly poised to offer generous backing to a new government that would represent the wishes of Zimbabwe's battered survivors.

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both believed that our dreams represent unfulfilled wishes, while cognitive psychologists argue that dreams are more likely to be a representation of our everyday experiences, a way of processing our thoughts, feelings and interaction with others.

I can only compare his delusion to that of members of the Labour party who still believe that their party's policies represent the wishes and needs of those who have been their traditional supporters.