The atmosphere was purified in a vast "hothouse" - a large, circular room buried just below the lunar surface. From Wordnik.com. [2001 A Space Odyssey]
Al-Noor uses a high intensity, competitive "hothouse" program to break the stranglehold for BT's toughest calls. From Wordnik.com. [Upping Your Complexity Quotient] Reference
JIL and BONDI were developed to "hothouse" specifications that could form a basis for what is now. From Wordnik.com. [New: All Things O'Reilly] Reference
Settlers engage in intense agriculture such as hothouse plants that consume enormous quantities of water. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
They looked like orchids or some other kind of hothouse flower, the perfect complement to the mysterious protagonist of the play. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
To eat an ice in a hothouse as a means of getting cool. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Within this hothouse climate, the NEA is sweltering miserably. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
Once Anne left the hothouse of therapy, she disavowed her accusations. From Wordnik.com. [You Must Remember This] Reference
At the table we had the finest dessert which the hothouse can furnish. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The cave's mouth overhung with lianas and broad-leafed hothouse plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'] Reference
The Web is a hothouse for eroticism, but ultimately, touch is elemental. From Wordnik.com. [A Geek Love Story] Reference
And so we've made her Hollywood's newest star, its latest hothouse flower. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood & Vice] Reference
Dissatisfaction with their hothouse celebrity seemed to strengthen their resolve. From Wordnik.com. [You Call This Nirvana?] Reference
Vietnam War spending and the Fed's easy-money policies created an economic hothouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Inflation?] Reference
FOR A MAN WHO FLOWERED UNDER the hothouse glare of neon, it seems an unlikely setting. From Wordnik.com. [Tark's Runnin' Raisins] Reference
(Take note, England is a brave and bold exception to this hothouse of political pathologies.). From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The place was a hothouse of love, love, love; everyone was a possible victim, anyone could fall. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary] Reference
The instant and anonymous connectivity of the Internet and talk radio became a hothouse for hate. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotism Vs. Ethnic Pride: An American Dilemma] Reference
As cocooning became the pastime of the '90s, home-furnishing retailers grew like hothouse flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Sofas For The Masses] Reference
The people complaining in droves to The New Yorker are not all hothouse flowers that wither easily. From Wordnik.com. [A Perception Problem] Reference
Rebuilding the business will take time, especially in the political hothouse that is the Middle East. From Wordnik.com. [FREE AND RECKLESS] Reference
If there was a whole hothouse of young or, for that matter, old writers ... but there's nothing out there. From Wordnik.com. [Ginny Dougary: Even Lloyd Webber isn't sure why Phantom of the Opera is his biggest hit] Reference
At Douglas, TQM appeared to be just one more hothouse Japanese flower never meant to grow on rocky American ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Cost Of Quality] Reference
Gnats of a ferocious kind, hatched by thousands in the hangings of this hothouse, flew around our perspiring heads. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
However, enough analysis hasn't yet been undertaken to distinguish the reform effort from the liquidity hothouse effect. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Just Another Bubble] Reference
But the nation's attention last week was on the Pee-wee Herman found in the hothouse known as the XXX South Trail Cinema. From Wordnik.com. ['His Career Is Over'] Reference
Passing the open door of a florist, he caught whiff of the flowers 'syrup, pushed out to the street on a column of hothouse air. From Wordnik.com. [Free Time] Reference
Foxgloves, daffodils, zinnias and hydrangeas, all blooming at the same time in this hothouse atmosphere, overflow the garden beds. From Wordnik.com. [A Flowering Tribute To Emily Dickinson] Reference
The hothouse grapes are very beautiful, and the vegetable productions are more carefully raised, and in greater variety, than with us. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The Asians acknowledged the difficulty of replicating this entrepreneurial hothouse by government fiat, but they felt they had to try. From Wordnik.com. [Is Silicon Asia Sprouting?] Reference
In the absence of a crisis, Americans have a fiery hothouse debate over just how we are going to overthrow the evil butchers of Beijing. From Wordnik.com. [The Real World Of Foreign Policy] Reference
Modern pundits write books lamenting "hothouse kids" or "overachievers" and making "the case against homework," to quote various titles. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Vanderkam: Are We Over-Scheduling Our Children?] Reference
Delacroix's hothouse lilies and tulips, by contrast, make a wildly unquiet still life where there is no place for the eye to take a rest. From Wordnik.com. [Impressionist Gardens; Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists] Reference
(Sadat was formed in the 1930s and 1940s when Egypt was a veritable hothouse of political ideas, with doctrines and opinions at the ready.). From Wordnik.com. [The Cop on the Banks of the Nile] Reference
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