Sentence examples for abject need from inspiring English sources

His voice often thins to a high-pitched bray, the wheedling whine of abject need.

In the three weeks that relations between politicians and press have been under the microscope, it is the politicians' almost abject need for the press that has become apparent, far, far more than the press's need for the politicians.

She had swooped into Marjorie's apartment from time to time to drop a Big Mac into Candy's waiting mouth, but the enthusiasm that she'd carried with her usually dissipated quickly, smothered as much by Marjorie's insistence on behaving as if nothing were out of the ordinary as by Candy's abject need.

Ms. Mysina may theoretically be embodying the haunting spirit of abject human need, but practically she is an annoyance in desperate need of subtitles.

Nor the abject, subservient need for someone else's love.

Generally, when girls do not attend school it is not because their parents do not love or cherish them, but because families living in abject poverty need every available source of income.

She had been trapped in the domestic trivia ofraising six children with endless mind-numbing and backbreaking work, without anycompensating comfort or security, in abject and constant need.

We need the return of "abject terror" and "ruthless accountability".

With a majority of 179, he does not need to pay them the abject attention which his predecessor paid to Tory Euro-rebels.

She recorded some 300 other songs, sold more than 100m albums around the world, and took the lead role in five feature films, proving that brutal realpolitik need not be translated into abject cynicism.

It was just the response that Van Gaal needed after his side's abject performance in Denmark on Thursday, when United were beaten 2-1 by Midtjylland.