But meanwhile Ansgar notwithstanding all the neediness in which he himself lived had been working away uninterruptedly on behalf the Scandinavian mission.
An emotional neediness could have rushed her back to motherhood and attempts at freshly burnt chocolate chip cookies.
He could not believe anything that was linked to such an amorphous word as love, which only had one consistent thread within it and that was what all love was, a neediness within projected onto that which was without.
From telling himself that sorrow was a universal rather than a personal issue these waves of neediness hit the sides of his boat with vehement force but did not capsize it.
Twenty five years later at certain moments of weakness, he still needed love even though the neediness in the content of the word abhorred him.
At that restaurant he had understood her fully: the requisite for an end to her neediness would only come from the neediness of a child of her own.
For a few seconds she withdrew to the cat, petting it but with eyes that seemed to pass through that which she needed to neediness itself.
Whether this question was an artifice contrived for monetary gain or a real neediness he did not know.
He smiled again for his own peculiarities did not cease to amaze him and he was pleased that neediness did not overtake him completely when it could so easily do so during this difficult period of his life.
For even love from a sexual encounter, to have any substance of reality, had to be a reciprocal neediness ground in years of friendship.
The feelings were unadulterated neediness because of his adultery-the jealous biological programming of a woman.
Hate and love had been horrible fulminations of neediness that ignited a person into another being, possessed will, and thrust reality into chaos.
The loving neediness of wanting that special woman who would take care of his sexual needs, give him children, and not extort him of finances with a divorce grated against him stridently.
For they are content to live miserably in neediness all their days, rather than to find it in their heart to diminish their hoard, they have such a fancy to look thereon.
