"Why, in my day, there would have been no mollycoddling.

There is too much mollycoddling and worry about 'self esteem'.

To insist on such mollycoddling would be to outlaw anything that does more than scratch the surface.

Hazel's tiny nip to my thumb told me she'd had enough mollycoddling for the time being.

Clearly, in a deregulated Europe mollycoddling of local business will be replaced by tough new efficiencies.

The first explanation invokes the usual mythology about good old days versus modern mollycoddling.

Carilo had not been on guard during the incident last night, but there was too much mollycoddling of the Gaidin.

Mind you, if you saw the state of his shirts, you might agree that a little mollycoddling was in order.

"I'm getting a little bored with all this mollycoddling, but I guess I'll have to put up with it."

And equally, she has no time for the mollycoddling that is part and parcel of her job. '

I need no mollycoddling,' she said.

This, in the opinion of many conservatives, is the earliest known description of the mollycoddling, Democrat-abetted welfare state.

And he tries to outwit his two daughters, worrywarts whose mollycoddling grows irritating even to the reader.

Because it was summer the floor was refrigerated: no mollycoddling of the men in Camp Leon Trotsky.

The satirists dismantle a pedagogical approach to American studies shaped by assiduous multiculturalism and make-a-diorama-style mollycoddling.

Mr. Bush, seeing the Agreed Framework as the mollycoddling of tyrants, backed out of it in 2002.

In the decades since, the idea that the robust treatment of troubled children and teenagers is kinder in the long run than mollycoddling has become a staple of pop psychology and daytime television.

But if these illiterate thugs wind up in prison you can bet that decent Americans like Mr. Dole won't allow any mollycoddling like teaching them how to read and write, which would be plain ridiculous after kicking them out of school when they were little kids using up chalk.

This was one of those cases in which absolute candor might not have been called for; but the Mayor must have felt that this was precisely the kind of unpleasant truth that New Yorkers have been permitted to evade for too long - a blow against liberal mollycoddling.

I'm not mollycoddling your sore head all the way back to the army."

I just find racing games mollycoddle you these days.

Then there'd be no way to stop Laura mollycoddling the boy to disaster."

George said, "You want to mollycoddle her or shake her down?"

It is a remarkable sign of mollycoddling that racing has kept its levy at all.

"I wouldn't run behind him and mollycoddle him if that's what you mean."

Let's stop being nice to them and mollycoddling them.

I have never mollycoddled any of my artists.

Our concern is to protect the innocent, not to mollycoddle the guilty.'

The voyageurs were a hardy lot and didn't believe in mollycoddling themselves.

Is it then not time we stopped mollycoddling them and looked at the real causes of the problems before we come up with solutions?

"You don't want me to mollycoddle the crew," Marguerite finished.

He made no effort to mollycoddle her.

"Now listen: I can't sit around and mollycoddle you.

'We kept him at home and mollycoddled him, that's the trouble.

The advantage of starting cuttings outdoors is that the plant, once established, doesn't have to be mollycoddled.

"I don't believe in mollycoddling it," he said.

But it wasn't Simenon's job to mollycoddle them.

They must be presented, minded and mollycoddled if necessary so that they concentrate totally on their own performance.

Sending children to boarding school is not child abuse, any more than keeping them at home and mollycoddling them is.

Can't imagine why they mollycoddled her.

"You can't mollycoddle the boy, Azira," he had said.

She is over-protective of him, mollycoddling and mothering him despite his feigned annoyance.

"Dammit, Phil, I don't need to be mollycoddled," he growled in annoyance.

(Alfred has a robust appetite for life; Michael is mollycoddled and plagued with gastritis.)

Who could be less of a mollycoddle than this Wood?

Oh, kick out this tea-drinking mollycoddle, Cecil, and let me work with you.

He was very tender, Jennifer said he was a mollycoddle.

Say, talking about sissies, what do you see in a light-waisted mollycoddle like Julian?

He's getting to be a regular mollycoddle, isn't he?"

"We all know I'm a mollycoddle, and you're a tender bud, and let's let it go at that."

"You absented yourself from the ballroom with that mollycoddle for nigh on two hours.

You know I'm no mollycoddle.

I'd try to motivate our mollycoddle athletes, but there would be some honcho from the Olympic Committee outside my hotel room.

Weak like our mollycoddle Government, as weak as all the stupid Governments everywhere!

Anybody'd think I was a girl--or a mollycoddle.

The Mollycoddle (1920)

Is it only laran, or have I become a milksop, a mollycoddle, the kind of man I always despised.

And now I want to assure you again, Eliot, that I'm no mollycoddle to scream at anything which shows a bit of departure from the usual.

The mollycoddle, reason, had been taken off the scrimmage line and Good old Hammerhead Jukes was back in his old position.

The Mollycoddle is a 1920 film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, and directed by Victor Fleming.

A few months later he came to Cambridge to make his famous "Mollycoddle Speech," and in greeting him, three or four of us asked him jokingly, "How about Brownsville?"

Haverford, who invariably calls his daughter Mollycoddle, loves to amuse his grandchildren with his favorite slang words for assorted sexual activities, spoken with droll Gielgudian propriety.

While Dad looks happily and helplessly on, a team of stylists will make subjects photo ready from head to toe - they comb hair, adjust wardrobes, wipe noses, change diapers and mollycoddle.

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.

The inattentive gardener, who by definition doesn't want to spray or stake or mollycoddle, will find a terrific guide to plants with a Shakerish self-reliance in "Dream Plants for the Natural Garden."

Astonishingly, with the choice of Harriet Miers, this Bush has ended up exactly where the last Bush ended up: giving affirmative action for the Supreme Court a bad name and then angering conservatives, who call him a mollycoddle.

It was reinforced by the large mollycoddle vote--the people who are soft physically and morally, or who have a twist in them which makes them acidly cantankerous and unpleasant as long as they can be so with safety to their bodies.