- a crying need.
- a crying shame.
- a glaring error.
- an egregious lie.
- an instant need.
- clamant needs.
- flagrant violation of human rights.
- gross ineptitude.
- gross injustice.
- I hate to hear the crying of a child.
- insistent hunger.
- rank treachery.
- regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous.
- she was in tears.