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.

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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.

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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.

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