Sentences with phrase «spiritual hothouse»

Still, his case is compelling, and he makes it with such effect that the reader is likely to go looking with fresh spectacles for traces of this «religious eclecticism» and «spiritual hothouse» effect in contemporary America.

They did so, if I may use Butler's figure, by trying to keep the panes unbroken, the doors on hinges, and the thermostats working in the «spiritual hothouse» they set out to control.