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  • In the end, you're so thin-skinned and self-involved you can't even resist rearticulating your manipulative whining, your implicit judgement of how Steve Berman should have had the decency to molly-coddle your fragile ego by removing his post, as an express desire for him to do so now: "I hope you will either post this, or take down the original review."

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • In the end, you're so thin-skinned and self-involved you can't even resist rearticulating your manipulative whining, your implicit judgement of how Steve Berman should have had the decency to molly-coddle your fragile ego by removing his post, as an express desire for him to do so now: "I hope you will either post this, or take down the original review."

    How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009

  • Leave us alone to privatise forestry land, molly-coddle the utility companies, pretend we care more than a jot about the transport system except for getting you to work even when you're voluntarily working for less than minimum wage.

    The nudge is no policy fudge | Francis Maude 2010

  • You have been bred up as a molly-coddle, Pen, and spoilt by the women.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • I want the man to look like a pirate, not a molly-coddle.

    A Memo John Lasseter Would NEVER Send... Steve Hulett 2006

  • I want the man to look like a pirate, not a molly-coddle.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Kevin Koch 2006

  • “Oh, you naughty man,” but when he heard that this molly-coddle had shared in the glory of making moving pictures he went proudly forth with him and Tom.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • If you don't, if you molly-coddle them too much, you get viruses flourishing. '

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • If you don't, if you molly-coddle them too much, you get viruses flourishing. '

    Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

  • The Church does not molly-coddle the realness of Death.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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