Sentence examples for the neediness 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.

But the neediness comes through in other ways.

What's most offensive about these books is the neediness displayed.

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

At no point does the sheer geekiness, the neediness to know, come across.

As the new children at Ariana tell their stories, rueful themes repeat: the pummeling fury of the air raids, the uncoupling from all that is familiar, the exhausting journey over the mountains, the unremitting neediness of the refugee life.

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.

The essay (in Castle's recent collection, "The Professor") zings right to the heart of a relationship built on the mutual neediness of the worshiper and the worshiped, in part because she's able to step back and recognize the inanity.

The gushing neediness of the anxious style triggers the avoidant's fear that others want to overwhelm them and drain their autonomy – thus they feel smothered and so emotionally withdraw into what Bowlby calls "compulsive self-reliance", often centred on an over-commitment to work.

The contrast between the rampant greed seen in the N.F.L. and the dire neediness in Japan is lucid.