neediness

During the exhausting 1992 campaign I was asked if Clinton got tired of the crowds: their neediness, their wide-eyed lunging.

Each performance had its set of demands—a lightness in one, an unlikely neediness in another.

This emotional neediness was brilliantly parodied in the Austin Powers films with Dr. Evil.

But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and lends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke.