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Example sentences for: neediness

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A prosecution provoked by the self-absorbed neediness of an insecure president has degenerated into the self-absorbed neediness of an insecure House.
Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.
Although Dr. Spritzer's reluctance to get enmeshed in Adele August's life is presented in both book and movie as entirely rational, given Adele's extreme neediness, both emotional and financial--Ann can't wait to be old enough to leave home--there is also the sense, in both the book and the movie, that Dr. Spritzer is a little bit of a jerk.