In Andy's case it was the need for approval and friendship.
That insecurity, that compulsive need for approval, is basic to Atlanta's boosterism, its civic ethos.
Or did it create a stronger need for approval and affection?
It doesn't end there, though — the human need for approval is relentless.
Reply 2: What did your parents do to you that you have this constant need for approval?
This, along with my need for approval, means that I draft my tweets half a dozen times before posting.
They don't need to know about your lifelong string of rejections or your secret need for approval.
Designed to avoid the need for approval by the U.S. Senate, it's not even an official treaty.
Everybody gets so much exposure that the need for approval trumps the fashion imperative to be different.
Poverty and abandonment had left their mark, and no amount of success could warm him to his past or quench his need for approval and control.
Though his surface remains relentlessly, well, superficial and upbeat, this character brims with the self-doubts and need for approval that keep him in motion.
