cosset

Example Sentences

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The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal

Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal

Is there a benefit to being ignored by the industry — you don’t end up cosseted or overly corporate — at least as far as your stand-up goes?

From Los Angeles Times

“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.

From Los Angeles Times

I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.

From Scientific American