Mern could defend the ethics of such procedure with interesting arguments; he had been an inspector of police and held ironic views of human nature; he had invented an anticipatory system, so he called it, by which he "hothoused" criminal proclivities in a person in order to show the person's latent possibilities up to an employer before damage had been wrought to the employer's business or funds. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
My parents are here, where they never meant to be, hothoused, like all the rest. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With our hothoused eldest son, we spent a lot of time chatting about whatever he was currently reading, and occasionally checked to make sure he wasn't just going through the motions. ❋ Unknown (2011)
That is to say fairly average kids who were born to a wealthy middle class family where they were hothoused in education in order to get good grades and go onto Oxbridge, but never actually developed an interest in their studies beyond the goal of achieving for achievements sake- they feel it is the only way to get affection. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Robson of course is a former Arsenal favourite turned ruminative jobbing pundit but Boyce is a new one on me, albeit it is impossible to keep track of the suffocating superfluity of football commentators, a side product of the digital age where the commentator has been hothoused and battery-farmed, mercilessly cloned in great striding secret stormtrooper columns. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Things I'd never have known without Twitter last week range from the hidden significance of sculleries via a tweeted link to a beautifully written architecture blog to the fact that Chinese schools, far from benefiting from zealous "tiger mothering", are now consulting British teachers on how to reintroduce creativity to their hothoused children. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Unlike European football's customarily gilded youth of today, hothoused in academies, Bebé was abandoned by his parents as a young boy, looked after by his grandmother in a rundown area of Lisbon, then put into care at the age of 12. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And, unlike Jackson, he wasn't hothoused into it by his family, but did it on his own with some help from Col. ❋ Tenured Radical (2009)
Apparently, he was once a little boy named John before being hothoused into ‘the perfect solider’. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The bright stars, if you like, they get hothoused. ❋ Assayas, Michka (2005)
Another thing I hate is paying inflated prices for inferior produce, like out-of-season produce hothoused just so consumers can have it year round. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There has been a real attempt by the Mental Health Charities in the UK to form powerful coalitions of influence (Rethink and MIND) and not always good ones either since they have often skewed the agenda away from truly individualised Patient Choice into Gov't led welfare hothoused "work and recovery" orientated models that missed the real need for individual social support and treatment choices long ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And they are increasingly hothoused by ambitious parents of course (not just Murray but also Tom Daley, Tiger Woods, the Williams's sisters etc). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Such an approach leads to unnecessary hothoused debates on issues where long-term discussion would be more in order. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If they don't, they will continue to come across, maybe erroneously, as an intellectual elite, puffed up with their own importance, apparently above reproach, who believe their only public duty is to exchange bon mots in flawless Mandarin with hothoused middle-class brats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Perhaps, in this new hothoused postmedernism Dan S. describes, we will come at last to Schroedinger’s Postmodernism, a state where any comment is simultaneously both “serious” and “parody.” ❋ Unknown (2005)
"She's the kinda girl you have to give space. A real [hothouse] flower. Turn the heat on her too much and she's outta there."
"He's kind of a hothouse plant. If he doesn't draw everyday he just wilts into depression."
(Nicholas Nickleby, 1838)"Mrs. Witterly is of a very excitable nature, very delicate, very fragile, a hothouse plant."
On an episode of "[Frazier]," Frazier was complaining about various things that bothered him. His father said, "Aren't you the little hothouse [orchid]." ❋ Anissa J (2007)
“We had some killer [hothouse hopping] today!!”
“It’s a [beautiful day] to [hothouse] hop!” ❋ SkiPanda43 (2021)
[paige] [you are] [one] hothouse ❋ Spaghetti Whiteboards (2020)
[Karl] tried to lure me into an alligator hothouse at [the V] [fest]. ❋ Norco Nobody (2015)
