wish fulfilment
wish-fulfillment

To those, like me, who are retiring, I wish fulfilment.

The shot looked so much like a photographer's wish fulfilment, it had to be phoney.

This, then, is wish fulfilment on the grandest stage.

It is the perfect wish fulfilment for any budding Indiana Jones.

There were compositions of how a life might be lived for anyone fortunate to pass inside; wish fulfilment, easily discernible from the real thing.

'Of course we both know it's wish fulfilment.

But that is wish fulfilment.

Wish fulfilment.

Thus Marvell's escapism is more complete than Marlowe's which seems to be pure fantasy and wish fulfilment.

Lycett sees much of Bond's character as being much "wish fulfilment" by Fleming.

Anyhow, to have such a lovely substance used for the drab wish fulfilment of depressed khepri is a terrible waste.

The trouble with religion, is that transference is based on an illusion and it serves the pleasure principle ultimately, because it's a tremendous wish fulfilment.

U2 are not a pop group like The Undertones, although their music is driven and energised by exactly the same instinctive romantic desire - wish fulfilment.

Her dramatic assertion may have been wish fulfilment, a hyperbolic statement expressing her real desires, but with such an unstable outlook we couldn't take any chances: publication was brought forward to June.

So Freud is not saying religion is a delusion or an error, he's saying it's an illusion, and it's an illusion because it's a factual mistake maintained by wish fulfilment.

Still in its place, on a shelf in Changez's study: a certain copper-- and-brass lamp, reputed to have the power of wish fulfilment, but as yet (because never rubbed) untested.

Banks says he conceived the Culture in the 1960s, and that it is a combination of wish fulfilment and a reaction against the predominantly right-wing science fiction produced in the USA.

It would hardly be accessible, along with'amber' and 'coral'to a lowly shepherd and because of this one becomes immediately suspicious of Marlowe creeping towards wish fulfilment and therefore pure escapism.

The Wynters' new chauffeur Carlo (Carlo Giustini) stumbles on the manuscript, reads it, and jumps to the conclusion that it is wish fulfilment on Judith's part.

Wish fulfilment dreams - they're the ones where you actually get to catch that partner - useful of course if you hadn't previously acknowledged to your waking self who it is you're pursuing in your unconscious mind!

Although Browne had been unable to make Fantastic successful by specializing in fantasy, he was still interested in the fantasy genre, and experimented in the December 1955 issue with the theme of wish fulfilment.

One such purpose is thought to have been what some people call "wish fulfilment magic" - or sympathetic magic-in which the act of creating the magical work is thought to bring about the event depicted in the work.

On the ride south, I'd imagined I might get Brasil and Vidaura, maybe another few of the neoQuell faithful, to weigh in on my side whatever the holes in their wish fulfilment.

From sunken Atlantis to lost Mu to the remains of Noah's Ark to Viking inscriptions in the Midwest and Roman crosses in Arizona, exotic discoveries based more on wish fulfilment than on evidence have a long history.