Sentence examples for neediness for from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, the narrator has a greedy sexual hunger for Mitko, and may indeed be in love with him; his neediness for someone who appears likely to abandon him seems helplessly bound up with the trauma of his father's abandonment.

He wasn't necessarily mean; he was just always there, underfoot, at the wrong time, desperately seeking affirmation from prepubescent suburbanites who were socially and biologically engineered to sniff out neediness, for the purposes of withholding approval.

If an individual doesn't know or if a sick person is likely to mistake her own neediness for feelings of love, it may be best to hold off on dating altogether.

When we enter a relationship with a neediness for it to fill us, we will always choose less than we deserve because we will be choosing someone who also expects us to make them happy.

In our voting neediness for validation and mirroring, in our voting thirst for identification and for a way to relate to any given presidential candidate, we fail to ask ourselves the following: What psychologically healthy person would be willing to put their own family in such harm's way?

Here are some ideas for getting started: Identify when your neediness for news began.

The chart below shows the ratio of work-study allocations to aggregate Pell Grants awarded (a summary measure of the neediness of the student population) for selected institutions.

All that is understood is the poverty and the presumed neediness of the community, and for the purposes of volunteering, that seems to be enough.

But both sides were so overcome by the neediness of fandom that they looked for assurance wherever they could find it.

Fear commended the "naked emotional neediness" of the performance, adding that it made for compulsive viewing.

The first is our growing neediness and search for validation.