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Examples
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Surely all of us have heard a love-starved student lament that they should have chosen a school with a more favorable gender ratio.
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Feeling the rhythms, he strokes his keyboard like the body of a love-starved woman.
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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.
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