The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere "ifs," trenches upon the absurd.
It is this persistence in the literal fulfillments of religious commands at the expense of the spirit, that the Hebrew prophets so vehemently condemned.
Sometimes they have misled him by promising him fulfillmentsthat were in the nature of things unattainable.
An interpreter would become famous in proportion to the number of fulfillments of his interpretations, and his god would share in the glory of his renown.
And to be loved by a man like that, a man clean and fine and kind; to be the mother of such a man's child, she was very certain was worth more to a woman than any other honors or fulfillments which life could bring her.
I hope that the above discussion and examples will suffice--until further objection can be raised--to make it seem credible that even dreams with a painful content are to be analyzed as the fulfillments of wishes.
Among these indestructible and unincumbered wish feelings originating from the infantile life, there are also some, the fulfillments of which have entered into a relation of contradiction to the end-presentation of the secondary thinking.
Contradiction of the thesis that all dreams are the fulfillments of wishes is raised by my patients with perfect regularity.
Indeed, the theory of all psychoneurotic symptoms culminates in the proposition that they too must be taken as wish-fulfillments of the unconscious.
Now these day dreams are actual wish fulfillments, fulfillments of ambitious or erotic wishes with which we are familiar; but they are conscious, and though vividly imagined, they are never hallucinatory experiences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fulfillments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
