Sentence examples for insecure figure from inspiring English sources

I saw him as a very insecure figure.

He's precisely the self-centered, shortsighted, and insecure figure he appears to be, and he's now flailing around for excuses to explain a humiliating defeat in the making.

Atamanuik's Trump, like the real thing, is a deeply insecure figure ― an immature child with the confidence of a god and a shocking level of selfishness.

We conducted a separate meta-analysis of the two insecure studies (figure 3).

Many people, like this mom, struggle with meeting high standards that well-intentioned but insecure parental figures modeled for them throughout their early lives.

The new king's consort, Queen Mary, emerges from diaries that Nicolson quotes (with the current queen's permission) as a more insecure and sympathetic figure than the fur-trimmed fortress of newsreel memory.

Having an insecure spiritual attachment figure still appears to be more useful than having none.

To me, these readings are simply a reflection of our own experience: we can't imagine being fine with someone snapping us in our bathrooms, and especially not if we were insecure about our figures (and who among us isn't).

The Wilsons, however, make a crucial professional mistake, and Watts and Penn work beautifully together at showing how this leads to their transformation from secure private citizens dedicated to the public good into insecure, widely vilified public figures.

In the present study, this kind of phenomenon has been considered as a negative form of coping and the sign of an insecure attachment to the religious figure.

Dyer was impressed by Bacon's self-confidence and his artistic success, and Bacon acted as a protector and father figure to the insecure younger man.