Sentence examples for neediness of from inspiring English sources

The point of being a bishop isn't, of course, to be a bright academic - it is to preach Christ, and Christ crucified, that is, God's choice of the poor, the suffering, the needy (and even the neediness of rich persons, like St. Francis as a young man), as his friends, those He wanted to have around him.

"He comes from the neediest profession of all, except for acting, but he is not needy and he doesn't fully understand the neediness of others; it's an abstraction to him," says Jonathan Alter, who wrote "The Promise" about Obama's first year in office and is working on a sequel.

Safire understood the indignities, the tribulations, and the needs (also the neediness) of his fellow speechwriters.

This jolly lout, played to perfection by C. J. Wilson, exudes the friendly neediness of a tail-wagging golden retriever.

As though the self's been stilled, shock-stilled sometimes, by all the busy, wondering neediness of a child.

The last quarter-hour of the show, in which Ms. Gridley and Mr. Johanson share the stage, re-enacting a rambling dialogue about the neediness of lovers and the neediness of actors, is a distinct letdown.

This is said with no self-pity at all: she has a horror of self-pity, of neediness and of anger – and especially, and always, of the thing they can lead to, proper depression – and that horror can tip into a slightly manic sort of cheerfulness.

Rumination mediates the effects of the dysfunctional thinking styles of internal, stable & global negative attributions; dysfunctional assumptions; self-criticism; and neediness on onset of a depressive episode over the following 2 1/2 years [ 6].

First, the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling eased the way for mammoth donations to individual Presidential candidates' super PACs, fuelling an even more intense primary-season mating dance of neediness and power, of My Billionaire Buddy partnering with My Presidential Pet.

The emergency assistance that is the traditional focus of the Red Cross is generally exempt from the neediness standards of the I.R.S., which noted that even affluent families may be left temporarily needy by floods, fires or other disasters.

But in reality, the nature of desperation, of neediness, that's a repulsive agent.