approval-seeking

• “These are the consistent, patterned actions of a votary of approval-seeking and compelled conciliation.”

  The Huffington Post: Sharon O'Connell: Barack Obama, Where Have You Gone? Oh, There.

• “Pecking leaning in at the waist, grabbing, qualifying myself to them, asking them approval-seeking questions.”

  Simon & Schuster: Get Laid or Die Trying

• “As a psychologist examining psychology of presidential ambition, what's running through my head is a series of clinical rule-out hypotheses: "ego," manic phase, narcissism, sublimated sociopathy, pathological approval-seeking.”

  The Huffington Post: Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Psychology of Presidential Ambition?

• “This helped protect him from the approval-seeking neediness that afflicts so many politicians.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE PROMISE

• “A life based on approval-seeking quickly degenerates into an empty race for money and status.”

  Brian Whetten: How to Create Meaningful Ethical Reform in Business

• “His approval-seeking eyes were unmistakable at that point, overwhelming his normally cool, thoughtful expression.”

  Van Jones Resigns; Left To Hang By Obama For Cursing Republicans and Signing 9/11 Truth Statement?

• “It just makes you a pathetic, approval-seeking ass-kisser.”

  Speaking of Robin...

• “Or is it just the spineless supplicating and approval-seeking before the "international community" in general that you are pining for?”

  Canada slumbers while Obama shakes up U.S. - John Parisella - Macleans.ca

• “Most of Jeremy Grantham's note this quarter (login and PDF) is devoted to eviscerating Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and other approval-seeking Fed chairmen (Jeremy does it better than most).”

  Henry Blodget: Counting on a Quick Economic Recovery? Read This First

• “He shot an approval-seeking glance at me from the corner of his brown eyes and casually extended his arm along the back of the seat.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Little Lady Agency and the Prince

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