One of the most frequent criticisms of Gervais is that he's closer to the paranoid, megalomaniac, insecure, attention-seeking David Brent than he cares to acknowledge.
I value the strong focus on charities and worthwhile causes like Act Responsible, the Grand Prix for Good and the Cannes Chimera at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, but agencies need a guiding hand on the shoulder, rather than just a pat to make the transition from insecure, attention-seeking lion cubs to kings of the ad Savannah.
Some were self-confident political admirers; some were struggling and insecure, flattered by attention from a man in power.
Often poseurs are people who are insecure and need attention from others.
Don't act insecure about the attention he or she gets from groupies.
Not only is depression in children of depressed mothers more frequent and more severe than in children of non-depressed mothers, but these children also display more anxiety disorders, aggression, attention deficits, insecure attachment, poor self-esteem and poor peer relations [ 1, 2].
Some girls do like that, but for all the wrong reasons either they are insecure and needy for attention, or they're control freaks who have a need for dominating guys.
Some girls do like that, but for all the wrong reasons either they're insecure and needy for attention, or they're control freaks who have a need for dominating guys.
The truth is, if you're not insecure, you're not paying attention.
The title's exclamation points track an insecure teen's clamor for attention, on an intensifying scale: emphasis, overkill, hysteria.
That might eventually discourage belligerence; but in the short term it could fuel it as insecure regimes seek to deflect attention from domestic tensions.
