needfulness

His women too often seem to be projections of male needfulness.

The bluster on the surface only pointed to the needfulness inside.

Jeffrey could see the needfulness in Bell's eyes.

Thou change of every need, MY needfulness!

His eerie needfulness, his obscene hunger, was drowned in this tide of misery and self-hatred.

In "Rebel," the work of a director, Nicholas Ray, who often allowed his own neuroses and needfulness to spill over into his characters, Dean seems to have traded acting for being.

But it is Mr. Murray's almost subliminal melancholy - the secret needfulness of the class clown - that lifts his aggressive, wisecracking character beyond the usual limits of youth comedy.

His mind incarnates itself in structures whose decoration and rapidity of finish are accomplished at the risk of safety, permanence, and health, and in manners which caution and reserve only characterize when hard knocks against projecting angles of humanity have taught him the lesson of their needfulness.