needfulness

That curiosity — along with a sense of needfulness, despair and eventual homicidal rage — plays out across Chucky’s freckled face, brought to life by award-winning character FX studio MastersFX.

No Oxbridge irony here: this is a direct expression of needfulness and vulnerability, deeply embarrassing and pretty wonderful because of it.

With the Reformation a large section of the Church ceased to admit its needfulness, and the field of its enforcement was very much curtailed.

And Ichi, leering up at him, said, "And now—we have no needfulness of Mr. Blake——" So far he got.

If they had been begrimed with smoke as we are, and, upon inquiry, had found that there was no “needfulness” to back the “noisomeness,” it is probable they would have dealt with it in their most summary manner.