Sentence examples for yearning for approval from inspiring English sources

Nixon was an actor and a musician, a romantic whose tough childhood and distant mother left him yearning for approval.

For a man often described as needing to be liked, of yearning for approval, it was a moment for Shorten to savour.

However, it is never mooted in the program that her desire for a boyfriend is not simply "boy craziness" but rather a deep-seated yearning for approval and companionship.

Blair probably should be sitting in a dock somewhere, but Galloway's dream of that dock being at the ICC is laughable because it shows him yearning for approval from the kind of organisation that will never put a Western leader on trial.

He yearned for approval and assumed he was being rejected.

Goethe declared that spending a few days with Humboldt was like 'having lived several years'   He was confident, yet constantly yearned for approval.

For people wounded by early childhood, by situations of misfortune in life, who wish to be understood and yearn for approval, these expectations are dangerous in that they lead to a sense of failure and inadequacy.

But for every Parisian chuckling into their chocolate breakfast sandwich as they give a tourist Yank oblique directions, there are five Frenchmen yearning for American approval.

Accustomed to trying to win the approval of my parents, I underappreciated how much parents yearn for the approval of their children, too.

Yet still she loves him and yearns for his approval.

But it's also true that designers, in spite of their creative powers, yearn for the approval of insiders.