Sentences with phrase «wish fulfillment of»

Some value the wish fulfillment of conquest more, others the quieter rewards of survival in a hostile historically accurate - ish environment.

Grand Theft Auto is, at its core, broad and open - ended wish fulfillment of the idea of a world without rules; you can go anywhere and do anything you want.

The story's main idea that Denis Cooverman's best days lay ahead of him and that someone like Beth Cooper may have already peaked reeks of the wish fulfillment of a nerd - domination agenda.

In spite of a remarkable cast, and a handful of exceptional moments, The Judge falls prey to the emotional wish fulfillment of most estranged father and son stories.

That's because despite the title and the marketing, the film's draw isn't the fucked - up wish fulfillment of giving your dirtbag superior what he deserves.

There's been no shortage of movies since the financial collapse of 2008 that trade in the wish fulfillment of the one percent.

The final few minutes of the film are an unconvincing wish fulfillment of a happy ending, almost cynically devised given that all these years later, Gordon hasn't changed.

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The risk is in developing real relationships, not in some sort of personal wish fulfillment.

Many oft repeated truisms are more about wish fulfillment than reality (sorry peddlers of endless, uncritical «follow your passion!»

Also, while you may be able to «find» meaning in life as an atheist, this meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (subjective) wish fulfillment in denial of greater reality, that there is no meaning.

Octomom / In - vitro / Designer Babies — Yes, this stuff has been out of the news for a while, but it does raise questions about our society's preoccupation with kids as wish fulfillment.

You can have any two out of three, but believing in all three is delusional wish - fulfillment, undoubtedly based on fear.

Now these are all descriptions of the eschatological fulfillment, for which other men had only wished, or at best only vaguely hoped.

Eckhart and his disciples are always preaching to get rid of the self that's concerned with its own desires, wishes, characteristics, success, fulfillment — everything that centers on us.

He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

The dynamic glory of the being of man is first bodily present in the relation between two men each of whom in meaning the other also means the highest to which this person is called and serves the fulfillment of this created destiny without wishing to impose anything of his own realization on the other.

I wish more religious people would find that sort of fulfillment.

We know too much about the ways of self - deception and wish - fulfillment to be satisfied with that.

Midgley comments, «This claim to a standing independent of teleology seems, however, to be wish - fulfillment.

Prayer is the intentional opening of human lives to, the alignment of human wills with, and the direction of human desiring toward, the cosmic Love that is deepest and highest in the world because it is the main thrust or drive through the world toward sharing and participation in genuine good — and hence toward the truest possible fulfillment of human personality as God wishes it to become.

Results are also connected with paganism / Wicca / Witchcraft... it is belief that drives the cure or the fulfillment of a wish.

«Philosophers can ask whether these claims are logically sound, historians can ponder the likelihood of certain scriptural claims, sociologists can ask whether Christian truth claims play a functional role in society, psychologists can explore whether these truth claims are only wish fulfillments, and theologians can contemplate the relationship of these truths to Christian doctrines and creeds.»

Observers must pay special attention to the congregation's «street wisdom» about how things really get done; to evidence about what the congregation seeks to avoid; and to expressions of wishes, desires, and instances of their fulfillment.

The human person is divided against itself, as the body is increasingly relegated to a mere instrument for the fulfillment of human wishes and desires.

If God is not like what we have been taught, then when we declare, «God does not exist,» we are not denying the God who does truly exist, but the god who is nothing more than a figment of human imagination, philosophical speculation, sociological superstition, and religious wish - fulfillment.

The turn to Scheeben represents the fulfillment of that wish.

As Allport holds, the psychoanalytic view errs in reducing religion to wish - fulfillment, ignoring the elements of positive striving in it.

As a person matures emotionally, his religious beliefs become less a product of wish - fulfillment and increasingly ways of understanding and articulating the spiritual realities experienced by that person as an adult.

It recognizes that there are elements of wish - fulfillment in most religions, but that healthy religion is not dominated by these elements.

Darren hopes Family By Design (and familybydesign.com) will help many people wishing to become parents to find happiness and fulfillment in a modern family of their own.

Sigmund Freud thought that dreams were a form of wish fulfillment.

Such self reporting of «energy» is a subjective impression that can be accounted for by mere placebo effect and by expectation wish fulfillment, and by enjoyment of the diet.

I am passionate about sharing with women my secrets that respects the realities of your body right where it is and elevates what is natural and proven to work from woo - woo, wish - fulfillment to bonafide solution.

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It's nice that you are opened for the fulfillment of the wishes of your clients.

The vigorous display of good feelings and comforting resolutions has an unusually effervescent sincerity, even if the rags - to - riches wish - fulfillment leaps over all the hard knocks.

Solidly acted and sturdily constructed, the picture offers a mellow display of wish fulfillment, more interested in the inspection of feelings than distributing vapid monkey business.

It's all vapid wish - fulfillment with a saucy soundtrack and the tamest (and lamest) sex scenes this side of a sultry reading of the ingredients of a randomly selected household cleaner from under the sink.

Perhaps with «Fifty Shades Freed» we've seen the last of the female wish - fulfillment fantasy, a smart young woman being dominated by an S & M craving billionaire whose private jet, unlimited shopping budget, assorted yachts and many swank townhouses, chalets and farms are the secret to his real sex appeal.

It's an inspired use of the tune, originally recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1967 as a complement to Bond mythmaking at the peak of his appeal, when he was the quintessence of male wish fulfillment.

We all know that mothers are badasses, and as many parts of the world celebrate Mother's Day, giving them a bit of butt kicking wish fulfillment might seem like an excellent gift.

If it's gratuitous, it's also energetic, an animated example of yahoo wish fulfillment.

Part wish fulfillment and part social moralizing, the film never resolves its point of view, but a few of the apocalyptic images stay in the mind.

A world of wish fulfillment, it's accessed by the downtrodden citizens of a dystopian 2045 with the fervor of addicts ignoring their squalid surroundings for a waking dream.

The denouement is neatly brought off, but it mixes so many fanciful Hollywood wish fulfillments that it ultimately mars — or at least needlessly complicates — the singular bitterness and lucidity of the closing scene.

Del Toro distills much of the bittersweet wish - fulfillment and danger of the best fairytales into a deceptively simple, but unforgettable, tale.

There's a certain amount of wish fulfillment involved.

They'll just see three adorable actresses — and a matching set of equally cute actors — playing dress - up in glossy, wish - fulfillment style.

We get to know so little about the romanian, he is the tool for the wish - fulfillment, not a player who gets to have wishes of his own...?

When Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) departs the diner to walk the earth like Caine in «Kung Fu,» fully intending to leave behind a life of crime to help people and get into adventures, it was more than just a satisfying conclusion — it was wish fulfillment.