Sentence examples for a need to please from inspiring English sources

She suffers from what energizes many actors: a need to please.

Anika is no stereotypical ingénue, all simpering and pleading, with a need to please.

I am not quite sure if that was his dream or a need to please his father.

Their trials became my own: shy Joey, with a need to please but terrified of falling short, was my Patronus, but I loved them all.

Her mother, Mitzie, who is a singer, says she is surprised that Welch became a performer, because performers, in her experience, always have a need to please, and her daughter doesn't seem to.

My client immediately wanted to demonstrate concern, perhaps there was some guilt there, or perhaps it was a need to please a coach who was becoming more important in his life.

The movie does have a likable need to please, a film school showmanship that encourages the actors.

It is possible romance might be sabotaged by that not-uncommon malady, an excessive need to please, but for a reporter, that is a plus.

Otto Frank grew up with a social need to please his environment and not to offend it; that was the condition of entering the mainstream, a bargain German Jews negotiated with themselves.

What might be seen as "maturity" could in fact be tied to a desperate need to please someone with power and influence, someone who holds all (or at least more) of the cards. .

It is likely that response issues occur more frequently among older adults with more communication difficulties, illiteracy, cognitive disorders or among those with a higher need to please others.