cottonwool

As soon as you say adventure, they say rescue, and there’s a lot of people who sort of question the values of it, but the bottom line is if we keep wrapping up our society and our young kids in cottonwool, which is what we’re doing, we’re changing the culture of Australia.

True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010

Discipline of every sort worried him, and made him miserable; he was daring to the point of insanity when only his _own personal_ safety was in question; no bet was too mad for him to accept; but do harm to others, kill, fight, he could not, possibly because his heart was too good -- or possibly because his 'cottonwool' education (so he expressed it), had made him too soft.

A Desperate Character and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

I wonder how many voters will have to find Obama disappointing – the same ones who voted and supported him – before what is happening gets through the cottonwool of the liberal listservers.

Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010

She wiped it with tissue, soaked in Dettol, the antiseptic her mother sent regularly from Secunderabad, then round Rite Aid cottonwool pads she kept for her nails, then a soft white face-cloth.

For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011

Make sure you have a pen/paper handy to jot down notes and a water bottle within reach to help with the dry cottonwool-mouth.

Holy Crap!!!! JLK 2009

By chaz, May 6, 2009 @ 11:08 pm cottonwool steep in vicks and then jam one ball each up each nostril.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Odd writing problem. 2009

The flowers develop into a quite large green fruit that pops open to reveal a pulp that is everything but juicy: it looks like beige cottonwool and is fuzzy and soft.

Living White Chocolate Perfume Ayala Sender 2008

The flowers develop into a quite large green fruit that pops open to reveal a pulp that is everything but juicy: it looks like beige cottonwool and is fuzzy and soft.

Archive 2008-09-01 Ayala Sender 2008

Then, over that, a layer of pouches stuffed with down, cottonwool for the seat and breasts.

the mysterious case of the german expressionist and the sex doll | clusterflock 2008

The bread here is so fantastic that it becomes much more than just a couple of slices of cardboard or cottonwool hastily eaten before running out the door.

Toast - the story of a girl's hunger 2005