emotionally deprived

"This is especially difficult for people who felt emotionally deprived as children."

I thought this was the most emotionally deprived class of all, those who had everything and no one to share it with.

Such insecurities may have been rooted in a lonely and emotionally deprived childhood.

"I don't want any of my staff feeling emotionally deprived.'

During the 1970s she was concerned with the problems of emotionally deprived and socially disadvantaged children.

The only child is an emotionally deprived child.

It's about being so emotionally deprived that anything that fills the void looks viable.

Victims of affluence, they are emotionally deprived, more to be pitied than envied.

Schmidt is a buttoned-up, emotionally deprived man who has recently lost his wife, Mary, on whom he depended for his social life.

He later would comment that his addictions masked the pain of having been abandoned and emotionally deprived and abused.

Behavioral retardation, as in the reactive attachment disorders, has been observed in emotionally deprived children living with their families.

They're growing up emotionally deprived!'

Her Minnie is sexually curious, psychologically powerless and emotionally deprived, and is exploited for it.

Most of the students who signed up, he said, "were quite normal," and were not the confused, emotionally deprived teen-agers depicted in the movie.

(Women are more likely to seek outside partners when they feel emotionally deprived; men when they feel sexually deprived.)

Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child.

In 1987, the grandparents applied to the Nassau County Family Court for visitation rights, contending that they were "emotionally deprived" by not being allowed to see their grandson.

The children are certainly materially indulged by their parents, who give them everything they want, but they are emotionally deprived because they never see their mum or dad.

Later West End successes such as Queen Mary in Crown Matrimonial (Haymarket, 1972) proved she was not limited to playing dejected, emotionally deprived women.

His color, whether he was emotionally deprived as a child, his rehabilitation, etc., offer nothing to change the fact that he deliberately took a life: therefore, he should forfeit his own.

Patrick Mulkern, writing for Radio Times, thought that the ending was an "emotional overload...but what better way to deal with the emotionally deprived Cybermen?"

Martha Coolidge's film of Neil Simon's play stars Mercedes Ruehl as an emotionally deprived young woman who tries to break away from a domineering mother (Irene Worth).

A very common reaction is when parents felt emotionally deprived as a child and try to over-compensate for this by providing material possessions for their children as proof of their love and care.

The other absolute need is to snare the audience into believing in the passion that is developing between Val Xavier and Miss Redgrave, the emotionally deprived wife of the store's owner.

This problem is particularly acute for adolescents who've felt emotionally deprived or otherwise neglected at home, for they run an increased risk of turning to sexual activity in an attempt to gain much-needed attention and affection.