Sentence examples for own neediness from inspiring English sources

Her own neediness went unnoticed, a sacrifice so complete it seemed deliberate.

Out since she was 10, she appears to have everything sorted, but her easy arrogance hides her own neediness and insecurities.

Don't say things like "I feel so bad about saying this" or "This is really hard for me to do," because it takes the focus away from the problem and toward your own neediness.

His new insights were mostly a matter of intellectually understanding the way he used Zen to assuage the pain of the past, hiding the pathological aspects of self-abandonment and neglect in the rapture of Zen vacancy; how he hid from his own neediness, anger and grief in the ecstatic abnegation of enlightenment.

I have compassion for my own neediness and selfishness.

They despise their own neediness; that's what makes them so dangerous".

She seizes the moral high ground, but quickly relinquishes it to her own emotional neediness.

Mr. Foote observes his characters with a clarity that may be unsurpassed in the American theater right now, and in "Dividing the Estate" he sees a people undone by their own greediness, neediness and obliviousness to the world on the other side of the living room curtains.

One is a sour little story Saul himself liked to tell, of being weaned at three or four after his father, irritated by Saul's neediness, "opened his own shirt and exposed his useless nipple".

I've always been fascinated by young protagonists who care for kid brothers and sisters – children made parents ahead of time, balancing little siblings' baby-bird neediness with their own right to childhood and an independent, grown-up future.

But Eve works her way into his bloodstream like a slow-acting poison, challenging his devotion to an ex-girlfriend who suffers from a debilitating neurological disorder and wickedly manipulating Jonah's emotional neediness to satisfy her own sadistic sexual tastes.