Stubborn incompatibility, oppressive neediness and tragic flaws plague the circuits, triggering headaches and slowing systems.

FORBES: Total Recall

Stubborn incompatibility, oppressive neediness and tragic flaws plague seemingly peaceful circuits, triggering headaches and slowing systems.

FORBES: Total Recall

Strategizing with volunteers, Baldwin blames Big Business and the neediness of political candidates ("These people are junkies, " he says).

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Josh Brolin, a slab of hair lying low across his forehead, gives White a brick-headed, baffled manner, a tormented neediness.

NEWYORKER: Milk

In the courtroom, at his arraignment, Bonds turned in his chair and assessed the loosely packed gallery several times, with what seemed a mixture of grievance and neediness.

NEWYORKER: King of Walks

Still young and unhappily single, overweight and self-conscious about it, balding, socially awkward, and style-challenged, Sylvain is a kindly schlub whose innocuous manner and well-meaning interventions hide his neediness and his heedlessness.

NEWYORKER: A World Without Women

This steady fountain of lust is disturbed by the arrival of his sister (Carey Mulligan), who brings with her the kind of chaos and neediness that Brandon can or thinks he can do without.

NEWYORKER: Shame