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.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

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.

Three Acres and Liberty 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.

'That Very Mab' Andrew Lang 1878

Make-up mayhemAre your cosmetics becoming 'hothouses' for bacteria?

National Nine News 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.

Danish Design's Homely Attraction 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.

As Sacramento Turns 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.

As Sacramento Turns 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: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera 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: Obama Prays That Jobs Will Return to Cupertino Mark Steinberg 2012

"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: Obama Prays That Jobs Will Return to Cupertino Mark Steinberg 2012