Tiffany is demanding, needy, and abrupt, but also smart, and she throws Pat off his monomaniacal rhythm.
"Her pain made her demanding, needy, depressive, dark, manipulative and at times, sadly, suicidal," Ms. Blanche wrote.
Instantly, her demanding, needy, histrionic manner opens old wounds in family members who cannot forget the havoc she continues to wreak, and the very real possibility that she will hijack Rachel's wedding and turn it into her own grotesque one-woman show.
Children are relentlessly demanding, needy and egocentric.
The authors of this book convey the love and exasperation Theo felt for his needy, demanding brother and how fearful Vincent was of losing Theo's devotion.
The women are either crass and cynical or naive and careless, invariably humiliating or over-burdening Tatsumi's weak male protagonists, such as the sick, demanding mother and needy fiance in Abandon the Old in Tokyo.
Babies are, by definition, dependent, needy, demanding -- not always in ways that can be farmed out to others.
As the article makes clear, it is the view of Bannon's site that "[w]omen are... screwing up the internet for men by invading every space we have online and ruining it with attention-seeking and a needy, demanding, touchy-feely form of modern feminism that quickly comes into conflict with men's natural tendency to be boisterous, confrontational and delightfully autistic".
Nagging, wheedling, needling, needy or demanding moms — often of the Jewish persuasion, it must be said — have been an endlessly fertile resource for comedy writers, the mother lode if you will permit a blunt pun.
What could be harder, after all, than handling all the needy and demanding P.M.C.'s -- People With Madonna Connections -- in New York, the world capital of moving, shaking, leveraging and calling in favors?
When she was state treasurer in the early '90s, her employees complained that she was abusive, and today Matt Mackowiak, who resigned last April as the senator's press secretary, admits that she can be "somewhat needy and demanding".
