cocooned

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It is not a means for intellectual revival or constructive opposition, but a comforting, cocooned, amnesiac and deeply partisan version of ideological comfort food.

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  • Plans call for the mansion to be "cocooned" for now, with the intent of reopening it during brighter financial times to pursue its "twin missions of elder care and heritage preservation," according to Shard Villa Trustee Don Shall. —  Addison County Independent - Covering the 23 towns of Addison County, Vermont
  • One of Rick's central arguments in the essay is that IRS regulation of political activity itself corrupts religion by suggesting to the faithful that their religiously-inspired views should be "cocooned" in the private sphere and do not belong in public discourse. —  PrawfsBlawg
  • And then boom - there she was at the Sierra Road KOM - cocooned from head to toe in a blanket and doing her best to stay warm. —  PezCyclingNews.com
  • This man is cocooned in his Ivory Tower in Rome where he is waited upon, hand and foot, by a bevvy of minions and, because he never had to do a day's work in his live, has no idea how his impressionable poverty stricken supporters - who have been scammed by his gobbledygook - have to survive. —  planet.journals.ie
  • On the internet, that last bastion of free speech, a cartoon is going around of a frightened unborn child cocooned in a uterus. —  The Reality Check
 

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