love-starved

She winks constantly at men, men who are love-starved, out of shape and low in self-esteem.

Think Progress » Palin says her favorite founding father is ‘all of them.’ 2010

"The only clue as to where the dwarf could have got to was a love-starved weedeater gazing longingly downstream from the battlements."

Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Save the Dragons 21 - Dave Freer Blue Tyson 2010

"The only clue as to where the dwarf could have got to was a love-starved weedeater gazing longingly downstream from the battlements."

Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination.

The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010

Astaire 1899-1987 couldn't stand to think of himself as the embodiment of terpsichorean romance or a pin-up boy for love-starved shopgirls.

He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011

Feeling the rhythms, he strokes his keyboard like the body of a love-starved woman.

Yvonne R. Davis: A Holiday Focus on Inspirational Musician Tim Janis 2010

Those people onstage—the desperate Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, the lonely, love-starved Bobby in Company—were much worse off than Harry.

Theater Geek Mickey Rapkin 2010

Surely all of us have heard a love-starved student lament that they should have chosen a school with a more favorable gender ratio.

Vassar's Gender Gap Gradually Narrowing 2010

Feeling the rhythms, he strokes his keyboard like the body of a love-starved woman.

A Holiday Focus on Inspirational Musician Tim Janis 2010

The setting is prewar Budapest and the plot is a clockwork farce: Amalia and Georg, two love-starved members of what used to be called a "lonelyhearts club," are sending each another anonymous mash notes without ever having met.

In Love With 'She Loves Me' 2010