Jeremiah's need for acceptance leads him to grab any shred available.
"It was never quite enough to fill that need for acceptance".
World leaders must impress upon Yasir Arafat and his people the basic need for acceptance and acknowledgment of Israel as the seed for any lasting accords.
Undeterred, Mr. Poon said he planned a new bid at the same price, but with technical changes that would reduce the number of votes needed for acceptance.
In California, Mr. Bush delivered a speech about the need for acceptance and open-mindedness at the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
But you also show, convincingly and sympathetically, how regular people can end up in a cult, and how normal human suffering can lead to a more extreme need for acceptance and fellowship.
A Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, Morrison was a masterful and distinctive voice of the black American experience; she attempted to capture in her fictional characters the need for acceptance in the often-unrealized search for cultural identity.
In Mr. Sorkin's telling, Mr. Zuckerberg is not so much villain as antihero, a flawed human being whose deep need for acceptance becomes the driving force behind a Web site that offers the illusion of it.
Like the best elements of the show, it's a dynamic morality tale, with sharp insights into the ways in which what seem to be individual moral choices are embedded within relationships, and how easy it is to exploit anyone by tapping her need for acceptance.
"We all have a basic need for acceptance and approval by social groups," says Orville Gilbert Brim, author of The Fame Motive: A Treatise on its Origin and Life Course.
