self-fulfilment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“We’re not talking about self-fulfilment or spiritual needs but survival.”
From The Guardian
Far from being indifferent to individual self-fulfilment, Long-Bailey’s aspirational socialism appears to regard collective uplift and the empowerment of working class and marginalised communities as a necessary precondition for it.
From The Guardian
The summer fling is a cliche – elegantly mocked in, for example, Michael Frayn’s 2012 Greek island farce Skios – but that only underlines its ongoing power as an idea, which is of sudden possibility, of the promise of self-fulfilment and a kind of adult joy no less potent for probably being doomed.
From The Guardian
Instead he’s tragically torn between his need for self-fulfilment and his need to fulfil his role in society, which involves taking his place in his family.
From The Guardian
In the process, she proved that sometimes, just sometimes, miracles happen in sport; that years of relentless dedication and sacrifice can be channelled into one perfect moment of self-fulfilment.
From The Guardian
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