Though many scholars have said that Dickinson was more social and less opaque than the hermetic mythology that surrounds her suggests, Nixon's Dickinson is as bitter and distant as she is desperate for connection.
She is dizzy with grief and desperate for connection and thoroughly aroused by this young man who so resembles her deceased husband, and Bloom pulls us into her experience in a way that is most uncomfortable: we don't want to empathize with this woman's almost monstrously irresponsible behavior, but Bloom is so gifted a writer she leaves us little choice.
I was bored, curious, and flattered and desperate for connection.
Sharp-witted and desperate for connection, the twins are the Other that everyone in the book either shirks from or prods and palpates as if they are lab rats.
The people who are most vulnerable to all types of substance use disorders are indeed the outcasts, the kids who don't fit in, the ones who are desperate for connection.
Desperate for a connection, she tries to befriend Patrick Grady, the menacing town eccentric she believes to be her father.
That relationship is interrupted when, desperate for human connection and believing his brother to be strong and cool, James acts as his courier, swiftly ending up under arrest.
A bully – "I decide who stays in my squad" – who is also desperate for human connection (the scenes with Rachel when he scrabbled to make some sort of contact were painful), a man who is both impervious to the law and capable of keeping a remarkably cool head ("Easy to say from behind a desk, sir").
When I told a British colleague that many Americans were starting to realize that they reveal way too much about themselves, he gave a full-throated laugh and said, "Finally!" Others attribute the problem to people's desperate need for connection.
"People are desperate for a personalized connection," Ms. Rouleau said.
