Hothouses

The author of novels which, with all their luxurious splendour, can only be called hothouses of morbid sentiment, has become the apostle of Italian imperialism, and more than any other single man provoked Italy to throw herself into the great adventure of the War. ❋ Various (N/A)

That is to say, in the majority of cases, one may simply employ the water available in hothouses, which is just at the proper temperature. ❋ Bolton Hall (1896)

'A kind of hothouses, 'said the Owl,' for the culture of feeble moral principles that the Struggle for Existtence has been too much for. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Make-up mayhemAre your cosmetics becoming 'hothouses' for bacteria? ❋ Unknown (2009)

COPENHAGEN—Modernist design was born in the chaotic center of 20th-century Europe, in the cultural hothouses of Weimar-era Germany and entre-deux-guerres Paris, but it came of age in the provincial calm of post-World War II Denmark. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)

Two other liberal hothouses, New York and New Jersey, are at least trying to clean up their fiscal messes, but the unions that dominate Sacramento think taxpayers will finance their soap opera forever. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey. ❋ Rodney Punt (2011)

"It is evident that garages, though unheated, are the hothouses for exciting new discoveries that can put millions of people to work," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. ❋ Mark Steinberg (2012)

Kaufmann's voice was at both its most limber and controlled here, his delivery achieving subtle colorations in the work's atmospheric hothouses, as with his nearly vibrato-less "Ich hab' im Traum geweinet" (I wept in my dream), his plangent "Aus alten Märchen winkt es" (From old fairy tales beckons...), and the oaken darkness of his "Die alten, bösen Lieder" (the old, angry songs), summing up the poet's journey. ❋ Rodney Punt (2011)

In the past cities were hothouses of a different sort. ❋ Ted C. Fishman (2010)

A collective urge ripened in the hothouses of a million individual hearts. ❋ Thanassis Cambanis (2010)

The massive buildings lining the avenue change to matchbox apartment complexes and then to barren fields dotted with commercial hothouses. ❋ Elena Gorokhova (2010)

Be that as it may, she inspired me to live entirely on the produce of the Bonkers Hall Estate: bread made from flour ground from our own wheat; fish caught by my trawlers on Rutland Water; pineapples from my hothouses; and so on. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both countries were founded as ideological, Islamic states; over the years the governments sought legitimacy by reinforcing that religious ideology, and that made the countries hothouses of militancy, fundamentalism, and jihad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He replied, “Yes, we have wonderful melons because we have electronically heated hothouses.” ❋ Felix Rohatyn (2010)