Neil Dudgeon's Ian blends bludgeoning coarseness with a pathetic need for affection.
These people can't face their need for affection, so they seek to cover it by earning admiration and deference.
Psychological effects, perhaps, Tadie writes ("anxiety, need for affection, fear of being alone, nervous tension"), but not causes.
Ms. Mirren, regal and vulnerable, emphasizes the character's sometimes cruel dignity, her need for affection and also her stubborn loneliness.
Once, moved by some filament of need for affection, Dakotah tried to hug Bonita, who was scrubbing potatoes in the sink.
In that mythical landscape, Arbus's subjects are free of institutions and uncomplicated in their need for affection, only wearing masks because they feel like it.
With greater psychological acumen than any of numerous earlier biographers, Fraser traces the queen's central traits of character -- her intense need for affection, intimacy and approval -- to her tortured relationship with an awesomely powerful mother.
When her 9-year-old grand-niece, Travis Holliston Colemann), arrives at her farm, Lettie can barely smile at the child, whose need for affection is more tenderly met by a baby lamb and Isaiah Griffin, a fatherly farmhand played by Charlie Robinson (right, with Ms. Moore and Ms. Coleman).
The need for affection, the need for love, the need for friendship, and the need for reflection.
She once said, "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it".
