Sentence examples for insecure boy from inspiring English sources

A lonely, insecure boy, he had grandiose ambitions.

Mousa, Muslim's father and the imam of the local mosque, says that, despite his son's bravado, he is an unhappy and insecure boy.

I believe that behind every macho man there's an insecure boy in need of mothering, so in Latin America men in all their virile glory have not disputed the suitability of women for the higher office.

She said she was intrigued by this cocky kid "who on the outside felt so sure of himself but who I knew was an insecure boy on the inside".

At a time when Wall Street seems to be increasingly dominated by hedge funds and private equity firms run by nameless and faceless yet undoubtedly powerful financiers, Mr. Weill, once a volatile and insecure boy from Brooklyn, is a throwback.

Mr. MacLachlan finds the nerdy, insecure boy beneath his character's professorial polish, and Mr. Milburn's Nat is the next best thing to Colin Firth, the actor who owns this kind of role.

After all, in bed men are all just naked insecure boys that want to be loved.

I've had my fair share of wounded boys, and depressed boys, and inconsiderate boys, and confused boys, and lazy boys, and rich boys, and insecure boys.

"What else would I feel but insecure?" the boy asked.

Lobsters is frank, funny and honest about sex, drunken parties and group holidays and also captures another tortured relationship: that of Hannah and her best friend (an insecure, controlling boy magnet).

Echoing the fictionalised biography of Walt Disney by Peter Stephan Jungk on which it is based, The Perfect American is predicated on the fact that its protagonist is anything but: a pathologically insecure country boy with conservative, misogynistic, and racist views; a man devoid of artistic talent who ruthlessly exploited the talents of his employees.