I reviewed a gig of his for the Observer last year and saw a needy man desperate to impress.
A man who has so many mistresses, and has to have a partner waiting at home at the same time, is a needy man.
For all the hot air, for all his ranting and raving, at the end of it, Johnny's just a needy man who wants to be loved".
His elevated, oratorical style at the seminars had drawn some mixed reviews from the passengers ("He seems like a very needy man," one told me), but here, after hours, he was all boyish charm.
It is likely Mr. Davis will portray himself as an emotionally needy man who was easily bullied by Mr. Stanford.
"I'm a needy, insecure man with delusional tendencies so I want you to call me Sir Alan at all times.
He needed only the 1984 story "What Kind of Day Did You Have?" -- with its beautiful but unflinching portrait of Harold Rosenberg as a needy, aging man -- to remind him.
The Davis who emerges from this volume is a needy, importunate man, restless, rootless and constantly on the move, by turns deferential and competitive ("If Frank slept an hour, Sammy slept only 15 minutes"), childlike and opportunistic, a spendthrift and a do-gooder, equally at ease in Vegas, Hollywood and on Broadway, but never really comfortable in his own skin.
Queenie Alice Munro, 1999 This abject story has at its centre a vanishing Christmas cake and an officious husband who accuses his wife, Queenie, of having drunkenly given it away to a needy young man with whom he suspects she may be smitten.
The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican.
Zooey Deschanel plays the nerdy, dark-haired Goldilocks who shares an apartment with three needy men.
