| 单词 | mollycoddle |
| 例句 | One of the great things about being in a group is also the worst thing about being in a group: You’re very mollycoddled, you’re encouraged to escape reality. “You don’t want to kill the myth”: The feud continues in “Substance: Inside New Order,” a second memoir by New Order bass player Peter Hook 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z “Being scared is a rite of passage,” children’s author Joanna Nadin once said, “but a pleasurable one. I don’t see the gain in mollycoddling.” The Witches at 30: a horror film for children that continues to terrify 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Once we established trust and the connection between each other, he didn't need any mollycoddling and neither did I. And that's what you want. Zero Dark Thirty: Jason Clarke confesses 2013-01-18T14:00:00Z She asks hard questions: “Why are we so afraid to tell the stories of the majority who die? Why keep promoting the positive anecdote? Why all this mollycoddling?” An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z For all the female agency on display, Barbie still has to placate and mollycoddle the insecure Ken. In "Barbie," of course Ken hijacks the journey of empowerment in a misguided tour of the patriarchy 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z While perhaps whimsical in premise, it was not an exercise in mollycoddling. Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z No matter what dreadful things Stuart did or what horror he suffered, he was not to be mollycoddled or monstered or let off any hooks. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z One of the worst things about Britain, she says, is how we mollycoddle our children and encourage them to expect the worst of strangers. Joanna Lumley: 'I'm a happy person. But injustice I loathe' 2010-04-02T23:12:00Z Former Nazis with attractive qualifications weren't just tolerated by the Allies; they were positively mollycoddled for their anti-communist credentials. John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself' 2013-04-12T20:01:01Z The British under Wellington were contemptuous of such mollycoddling. Medic, Letters from the Trenches, The Pacific and Sandstealers 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z Children need discipline, not mollycoddling, and teachers need to be left alone to do what they do best, not forced to meet idiotic targets or please Ofsted inspectors. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z I went from my parents’ mollycoddled child to an adult that had to do their own laundry. Moving from Dubai to California, Spotify kept me in touch with my culture 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z How much longer will the responsible citizens of Washington state and the United States have to bend over backward to accommodate and mollycoddle the irresponsible while the coronavirus continues to rage unabated? COVID-19: Stop appealing to the anti-vaxx crowd 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “She’s very worked up and her voice is going all over the place as she’s trying to talk about the economy and not mollycoddling the public, which is one of her favorite topics,” Anderson says. Why 'The Crown' star Gillian Anderson is probably not the hard-ass you think she is 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z You’d think businesses wouldn’t require a lot of mollycoddling when it came to defining abusive behavior. Column: Biden, unlike Trump, thinks businesses shouldn't be free to abuse consumers 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z So football generally, and pro football specifically, helped reassure the country that American men were not mollycoddled softies. Beautiful. Violent. American. The N.F.L. at 100. 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Molly Roberts, true to her name, didn’t mollycoddle the baby boomer generation in her Nov. 6 Wednesday Opinion column, “OK, boomer. The kids are fighting back.” Opinion | OK, millennial. No generation will be exempt from mistakes. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z I took refuge in what the club calls the press building, a recently constructed Taj Mahal of media mollycoddling. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Even then, though, they were already seen as mollycoddled try-hards, simultaneously fragile and eager to impose their will on others. How Much Power Do ‘Millennials’ Actually Have? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z On the right of the party, transformative provision for mental health from cradle to grave is likely to be regarded as mass mollycoddling. We all bear responsibilty for the stigma of mental illness | David Shariatmadari 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But for Souza and many others, Bolsonaro represents deliverance from what they say is a communist cabal determined to decriminalize abortion, mollycoddle criminals, and indoctrinate students with dangerous leftist values. Journey to Brazil's heart: across 2,600 miles and seven states, we ask – how will Brazilians vote? 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z It's easy to mollycoddle some of the more corrosive aspects of Trump's voting bloc by misdiagnosing the root of their behavior, because the alternative would hit the corporate news media in the pocketbook. Are white people ready to bail on democracy? These researchers say the danger is real 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Were these schoolchildren really so mollycoddled that they couldn’t cope for just a minute without distraction, without the consolation of continuous chatter? Is it time to give the overworked one-minute’s silence a rest? | Giles Fraser 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z "If what you're doing is essentially mollycoddling someone from opinions and views that they might find offensive, then that is wrong." 'Intolerance' risk to campus free speech 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z If Britain had not sought to mollycoddle its aviation industry in the past, its airlines would not have to worry so much about Brexit today. Will British airlines lose their rights to fly to America after Brexit? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Local governments in the north-east mollycoddle their industrial champions by giving them preference in procurement contracts. Lessons from China’s rust belt 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z He said that "mollycoddling" students so they did not discuss controversies was another form of censorship. 'Creeping censorship' in universities 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z This mollycoddled outdated practices, like harvesting by hand. Caribbean sugar is close to a sticky end 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z When are Trump and the Republicans going to stop mollycoddling suspected terrorists in the balmy Carribean? Following Trump’s Lead, Republicans Grow Quiet on Guantánamo 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Every parent instinctively knows there's a balance: protect, but don't mollycoddle; nurture resilience, not dependence. Do welfare states boost economic growth, or stunt it? 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Jackson’s mollycoddled existence must have isolated him from a multitude of essential feelings “I called Quincy up one day; I said: ‘Quincy, I’m ready to do a solo album. My surreal 1980 interview with Michael Jackson: ‘Direct your questions to Janet; she’ll put them to Michael’ 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But, honestly, how mollycoddled do you need to be? Five phone apps you will never, ever have a need for 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z That may annoy European bankers, but is hardly a reason to mollycoddle them. Banking and nothingness 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Off-screen, mollycoddled players’ violent behavior is ignored by law enforcement and the league. Letters to the Editor 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z "Sections of the press were obsessed with the Germans being mollycoddled, which they weren't," he said. World War One 'aliens' sent to camps 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet Jackson’s mollycoddled existence must have isolated him from a multitude of essential feelings. My surreal 1980 interview with Michael Jackson: ‘Direct your questions to Janet; she’ll put them to Michael’ 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Another former Australia captain Allan Border believes the team's current players are mollycoddled and losing the ability to think for themselves. Ashes gossip column 2013-11-25T23:43:57Z Even the old interim FPC, not known for mollycoddling banks, was divided over whether to ask for this new power. King Leaves a Ticking Bomb for Osborne 2013-06-16T23:09:10Z Right-wing politicians tisked that she would be lax, a mollycoddle—an accusation inadvertently served during her first official ministerial outing, a basketball tournament between prisoners and guards, when one prisoner escaped. France Fêtes Gay Marriage Vote 2013-04-24T16:40:00Z Their cheerful optimism and ambition shamed us all in the mollycoddled west, he concluded. In defence of politics 2012-11-21T16:10:52Z Because it turns out it's not ALL about multinational corporations vying for market share, mollycoddled egomaniacs vying for attention and Lee Cattermole vying for the sheer hell of it. The Fiver 2011-08-26T15:52:20Z Don't treat them like a brace of mollycoddles. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z You made me go right to them and try what you called 'straight business,' and I got what was coming to a mollycoddle. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Love is the last refuge of the mollycoddle, of the coward. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Today's children might appear mollycoddled compared with previous generations - but such pampering is more hard-nosed than it appears, says Alain de Botton. Trendy parenting 2011-08-05T11:08:36Z He has come to be a mollycoddle and a bookworm. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z She would regard me as a mollycoddle if I permitted it. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z A fine race of mollycoddles we should be without our sins and sufferings! Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse 2011-02-24T03:01:00.270Z He had his own way of hitting back at the mollycoddles. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Why, the boy was nothing but a mollycoddle, and not much fun. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z Nobody was ever mollycoddled and from that I've always been grounded with the fact that you've got to work hard and that nothing will come easy. Carlisle aim for another tilt at English football's second tier 2010-10-28T11:14:00Z Does De Villiers have a point about World Cup hosts being mollycoddled by the organisers? Being at home doesn't win the World Cup but it helps 2010-09-23T09:01:00Z Mr. Schwartz added that unlike most Amish children — who are often raised with many siblings — Chester Mast was adopted at 5 days old and raised as an only child, mollycoddled by his parents. A Crisis in Amish Country 2010-09-03T00:40:00Z They took care of you, but not in a mollycoddling sort of way – it was rough justice if you didn't do as you were told, back-chatted or got "too big for your boots". Say a prayer for Chile's trapped miners 2010-08-25T11:30:00Z Republicans, warning that their mollycoddling foes are encouraging taxpayer giveaways, argue that ordinary bankruptcy court is sufficient. The Wall Street Reform Fight We Really Need 2010-04-08T03:01:00Z He was a strong man, in the fulness of health and vigor; there was nothing of the mollycoddle about the last Duke of the line. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode He called her affected and a mollycoddle, and teased her as only he could tease. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Between my mother and my sister the kid was being absolutely ruined—petted, mollycoddled, and was getting soft and silly—oh, something to make you sick. The Haunted Pajamas "Well, has this mollycoddle stuff in the air infected you, too?" In And Out They despise from their hearts the mollycoddle who will not risk a wound or a cold for the pleasures of the sun and air. The Book of This and That "No one could ever accuse you of being a mollycoddle, Mr. Barker." Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Yet they are sturdy little things and no mollycoddles. Letters from China and Japan That day before practice Coach Murray talked to the scrub in no mollycoddle terms. The Mark of the Knife A weak-kneed mollycoddle who passes into a state of coma at the crucial moment. Seven Keys to Baldpate But, so far as the imagination is concerned, they themselves are mollycoddles who will not venture beyond a game of halma or a sugarstick by the hearth. The Book of This and That Chicken Little, don’t make a mollycoddle of me. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John In this great expanse of wilderness toilers are needed, but we can’t use mollycoddles. The Peace of Roaring River Latin he treated with the same half-playful, half-contemptuous courtesy that I had observed in General Bolingbroke's manner to "the ladies," and even the doctor he regarded as a mixture of a scholar and a mollycoddle. The Romance of a Plain Man The movement for peace is not one of weaklings and mollycoddles. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association Let us clear our minds forever of the idea that Jesus was a mild and innocuous person who parted his hair and beard in the middle, and turned his disciples into mollycoddles. The Social Principles of Jesus And I hated him for calling out that this was what people got by mollycoddling their children. The Prairie Child Then we thought it an honour to be shipped on board a man-of-war, now most of them seem to me mollycoddled, and we have difficulty in getting enough boys for the ships. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson "The doctor is a mollycoddle and George is a fop." The Romance of a Plain Man Surrender this right, and prestige and self-respect are gone and we become a nation of "mollycoddles" whose patriotism has no virile qualities. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association And he muttered something about dunces, and mollycoddles, and—yes! ’fraid-cats! The Tale of Jolly Robin I don’t want my boy to be a mollycoddle. The Prairie Child You mollycoddle——Water, you fellows—can't you even wait on a real man? From the Car Behind He must not be "mollycoddled"; to do so would be to leave him a burden to himself and to his friends. Through St. Dunstan's to Light No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry! Something Else Again He didn't have any use for mollycoddles and he brought his oldest boy, Bob, up to fight his own battles, not wasting any sympathy on him. Over the Line He never mistrusts how much he’s been mollycoddled, until he finds himself with nobody but a valet, a housekeeper, and seventeen assorted servants to help him along in the struggle for existence. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe You must not think that Inga was a mollycoddle or a prig, because he was so solemn and studious. Rinkitink in Oz I won’t mollycoddle them, and they will have to shift for themselves, but I’ll see that they get through all right. The Young Alaskans So, though November was raw, she maintained her discipline and refused to mollycoddle us. Explorers of the Dawn Siwash College, the pride of six decades, mollycoddled by an old parody on a gorilla with a grouch against the solar system! At Good Old Siwash In my time, fellows at sea didn’t go in for slops and mollycoddling, as all of you do now. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant The carriage was full of people, who must have heard it, and would be sure to set him down as no end of a milksop and mollycoddle. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Now none of us is a milksop or a mollycoddle.” The Young Alaskans There's too much mollycoddling of these agricultural labourers, that's what I say. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 29, 1893 I'm no mollycoddle if I have been sick. The Root of Evil I wouldn't be put upon and called baby and a mollycoddle and have that Perkins crowding me off the line and losing marks. A Little Girl in Old New York To speak of the Scotch as having certain exclusive characteristics is to be a mental mollycoddle. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen The peasants do not believe in 'mollycoddling' their animals, nor themselves. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 He thinks of the religious man as a milksop, a mollycoddle. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time To follow the shore path in the teeth of a storm would do much toward establishing his self-confidence and prove that he was not a mollycoddle. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! We didn't bring the boy out here to make a mollycoddle of him. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) Mr. Crow called to Nimble and Dodger, while Jasper Jay jeered at them both and told them they were mollycoddles. The Tale of Nimble Deer Sleepy-Time Tales Well, who’s to help it if you will be such a mollycoddle! Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai Of course not, and you’ll have your reward in seeing Jim turn out a far better clergyman than your mollycoddles, who don’t know the way to look their fellow-men straight in the face. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch And secretly he was grateful to the Hall Master, though he still pretended to believe and possibly did half believe that the latter was a sort of mollycoddle. Left End Edwards I am sure I don't want to make a mollycoddle, as you call it, of him. Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) Blanche felt a little ashamed of all these precautions before Marjory's sturdy independence of the weather, and was rather afraid that her friend might laugh at her for a "mollycoddle." Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls "If there's anything I hate," one of them remarked with a sneer, "it's a young fellow who's too much a mollycoddle to take a drink with a friend, and too stingy to pay for one." A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Once in Calcutta, the young subaltern lost no time in proving that he was not a mollycoddle. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers To which Steve cheerfully made answer that even a mollycoddle could be decent at times! Left End Edwards In most boys' schools of that day, and doubtless at Marlborough College, boys settled their differences with gloves, and in all probability Grenfell had plenty of practice, for he was never a mollycoddle. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell But how long will it take you to write that play for your mollycoddle poet? Over Paradise Ridge A Romance I was right in refusing to mollycoddle him or put up with any of his callow, unbaked impudence. The Younger Set If you want him to be a man, don't begin by making a mollycoddle of him. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage If I heard someone say I did as much as any three of these mollycoddles up here I'd just simper in silence and look down. Ma Pettengill I wish to deprive those whom I put in the mollycoddle class, of any argument against good sport. African and European Addresses This thing of hanging around a hotel porch all Summer makes a regular mollycoddle of a fellow. The Adventure Club Afloat "You have bred a man, sir, not a mollycoddle," said the young laird quietly. Kindred of the Dust Give me a boy like Izzy any time, to a mollycoddle. Every Soul Hath Its Song No mollycoddle—but a roaring, six bottle fellow—with a big brain and a scrupulous sense of honor. By Advice of Counsel When one mother tries to be all those things to one son that son has a very fair chance of turning out a mollycoddle. Cheerful—By Request In practice what happens is that parents notice that boys brought up at home become mollycoddles, or prigs, or duffers, unable to take care of themselves. Treatise on Parents and Children Boys who associated with them were, in his estimation, mollycoddles. Son of Tarzan Don't let her make a mollycoddle out of you, Max. Every Soul Hath Its Song And they say he's the most awful mollycoddle—looks just like a girl. Main Street Now—It was as different as public school from private school—public school where the mind is rudely stimulated, private school where it is sedulously mollycoddled. The Price She Paid I say misleadingly because you usually associate pink-and-whiteness with such words as sissy and mollycoddle. Buttered Side Down: Stories Evidently they were mollycoddles, for they obeyed my command without a murmur. Botchan (Master Darling) They were not mollycoddles in that family; well or ill, they never worried, and nothing could bring about any change in the habits of the two Kraffts, father and son. Jean-Christophe, Volume I When he said that one's ideas were "rot," when he spoke with contempt of "mollycoddles"—then indeed one suffered in soul, and had to go back to Shelley and Ruskin to renew one's courage. King Coal : a Novel He had the jury snickering at the thought of a big rich youth like Jim being such a ninny, such a milksop and mollycoddle, as to defy an opportunity so perfect. We Can't Have Everything Maybe he was too old for anything except just to be "mollycoddled" by thoughtful old ladies. Old Lady Number 31 As he is a fellow so cautious as to be unable to mention the name of the other even in a whisper, he is surely a mollycoddle. Botchan (Master Darling) Lady in the blue kimono, idle, mollycoddle dame, Does your doing nothing never make you feel the blush of shame? Tobogganing on Parnassus Mr. McGraw muttered something about gag rule and the horror of being mollycoddled, sighed dismally and predicted his death within the hour. The Long Chance And their daddy — so this blessed old mollycoddle says — owns real United States railroads. Our Pilots in the Air I'd want to get out with him and raise a little dignified hell once in a while, just to be a human being and keep him from being a mollycoddle. Cappy Ricks Retires All mollycoddles are kind, and that Red Shirt may be as kind as a woman. Botchan (Master Darling) Often Mr. Stone will be a weak mollycoddle; Mr. Sharp, a phlegmatic butter-won't-melt-in-my-mouth sort of individual, or Mr. Strong, an "acute dyspeptic." Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information If he repudiated these ideas, then Jonas would denounce him as a "mollycoddle," a "pink tea Socialist," a "labor faker." 100%: the Story of a Patriot But they got four in return: Nick is no mollycoddle, you know. The Voice on the Wire After a time, the chaplain decided not to allow any more such mollycoddling of the soul of his son. The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein "Uh-h-h-h-h," said Mr. Wrenn, in a frightened diminuendo, now that—wealthy citizen though he had become—he was in danger of exposure as a mollycoddle who couldn't choose his drink properly. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man The author's worst enemy would not call him a mollycoddle, yet he has never travelled in far wilds without carrying something in the way of medicine. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students I'm tired of mollycoddles and book-worms,' said Nan in her decided way. Jo's Boys Their idea was to please both the mollycoddle vote and the vote of the international tail-twisters by upholding, with pretended ardor and mean intelligence, a National policy of peace with insult. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Daddy declared she was making a mollycoddle of him, anyway—that she babied him too much. Janice Day the Young Homemaker A boy never amounts to anything if he's mollycoddled and allowed to spend his days depending on someone else. The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life On the other hand, men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. Anarchism and Other Essays It soon became plain, therefore, to everyone that Pontifex was a young muff, a mollycoddle, not to be tortured, but still not to be rated highly. The Way of All Flesh I lost him, and had just begun sourly to call myself a mollycoddle hunter, when he reappeared. The Last of the Plainsmen A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none "I can tell you what a mollycoddle is," said "Smoky." Whirligigs Besides, I don't want them to grow up spoiled mollycoddles. Where the Blue Begins "We all know I'm a mollycoddle, and you're a tender bud, and let's let it go at that." Babbitt |
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