cosseted

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Nonetheless, India is in no mood to cut ties with Mr. Putin’s Russia, which supported the country with weapons over decades of nonalignment, while the United States cosseted India’s archenemy, Pakistan.

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In “Corsage,” the empress of Austria begins to chafe against her predictably cosseted life.

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Katz’s paintings include billboard-size heads and towering canvases of trees that are either startlingly patched with bright color or cosseted in layers of shadow.

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Owen, especially, is a font of mirth, not only as Isabella but also as her extravagantly spoiled son, Little Linton, a creature so enfeebled by his cosseted upbringing that he’s practically boneless.

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“It’s quite a cosseted life he’s lived,” said Edward Owens, a historian who has written about the royal family.

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