Sentences with phrase «coddle people»

I sort of get what you are trying to say here, but I am struck by the almost pathological tendency of some women to be hurt or offended by A, B or C and the sense that we have to coddle people.

I don't coddle people.

Silly me, I guess it means coddling people and hiding (highly appropriate) anger at people who would be so foolish as to write off the unnecessary deaths of both infants and adults.

What makes it special, particularly at the top trim level, is that the QX60 coddles every person who rides inside — including the driver, of course.

It's past time to be coddling people, but I do think listening can be useful at times.

Not exact matches

«Aren't young people coddled?»

As leadership consultant Mark Murphy writes in his 2009 book Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They'll Give You Even More, people can't be coddled into greatness.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

After a decade of «coddling» the super-rich and people who «make money with money,» Buffett wrote, «it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.»

I've argued before that no entrepreneur or manager has the obligation to be a therapist — people can change, but your responsibility is in teaching and developing your best employees, not in coddling your worst.

People also lack self - confidence and have been coddled their entire lives.

I think we are coddling a bunch of hell - bound people who have deluded themselves into thinking they actually believe the Gospel message without making a single change to their lifestyle.

Odd the people who are screaming about the government being too big and «powerful» are the very ones who have bought and paid for the government's coddling of corporate America?

The great majority of people over 35 seem to dislike this coddling culture, they were not raised with it.

It's exactly this sort of coddling that leads to insufferably selfish people.

The film is effective in the moments when her trauma shines through, but at the same time does struggle to fully flesh out her character and arguably diminishes her character by presenting her in a way where the people around her, with the exception of her friend Nancy Tuckerman (Greta Gerwig), were always trying to coddle her.

And presiding over the entire farce is a governor devoted to coddling the rich, while lying to the people.

Ferraris were impractical and uncomfortable and relatively expensive, and the only people willing to put up with them were hard - core types who bought them as drivers, not as investments to be coddled in climate - controlled garages while values appreciated.

As much as we liked the Kia for its people / stuff - hauling capabilities, during our two months with the Sedona, the minivan coddled us with features and conveniences we would have expected from a full - size luxury sedan.

Sherlock is sensitive and needs the guardian to be his leader with confidence (he will sense anxious / nervous person) and tell him what to do vs coddling (he will get confused).

You're just affirming to THAT section of your consumers that they are indeed the «lesser people» and need to be coddled, which would be counter-productive to finding the solution to the actual problem.

This other staff member coddles the first staff person and tells him how mean I am to be frustrated with his lack of ability to do his job and follow my instructions, which I have given him verbally and in writing numerous times.

A lot of people like to coddle babies — and for good reason, since your basic job as a parent is to protect your weak, smushy baby from a lot of things.

Here's the typical backlash against that: «Ugh, Millennials are so self - absorbed,» «ugh, Millennials are so lazy,» «ugh, Millennials are so coddled,» «ugh, Millennials in most industrialized Western countries are making the same basic wages as people their age were 30 years ago even though other demographics have seen their disposable income grow in that time so they're delaying significant life events.»

One of Sethi's big pet peeves is when people are coddled about money.