hothouse plant
Example Sentences
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He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wisdom of the Mysteries is like a hothouse plant, which must be cultivated and fostered in seclusion.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry
Catholicism as we know it is Latin Christianity, and even in the Latin countries it is now a hothouse plant, dependent on a special education in Catholic schools and seminaries, with an index librorum prohibitorum.
From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph
Despite her town breeding, this was no hothouse plant, this daughter of a horse-racing, whisky-drinking, card-playing gentry.
From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein
I'm quite as eager as you to discover how the transplanting of the hothouse plant into the hardy outdoor soil of the country has worked out.
From Under the Country Sky by Rogers, Frances
