The first step is to take aim at cosseted incumbents.
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This was a commercial guided float trip, cosseted and catered.
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It is steeped in attitude: bourgeois alienation and cosseted rebellion.
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His was in many ways a sheltered and cosseted life.
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How could someone from the Hearsts' cosseted world change so quickly?
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Like the starling, Hughes had to be cosseted and cared for.
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The software engineers are making it, cosseted in their dim engineering warrens.
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The cosseted rich world of the murder victims was not his circle.
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She's the sort of person who's not cosseted and was perfectly … Right.
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Cynical journalists held this out as another example of athletes being pampered and cosseted.
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For a cosseted teen-ager, arriving in Port-au-Prince proved to be transformational.
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Mr. Ly's childhood there was hardly cosseted, he said, but it was not unhappy.
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If a given college wants to cultivate cosseted, emotionally fragile ideologues, so be it.
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She is privileged, cosseted and ready to hurt those below her in the pecking order.
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In short, China is closed, its firms are cosseted and their talent is for mimicry.
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Patrons knew they would run into others from their cosseted social circle at the restaurant.
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Bringing competition to routes once dominated by cosseted national carriers, they stimulated demand by slashing fares.
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The economy is much mended after bad debts from cosseted state enterprises threatened the banking system.
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The Ivy House, home of that elm tree, was at the heart of his cosseted upbringing.
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The result is a space that evokes alternating feelings of being oppressed and of being cosseted.
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Anyone who has a hunger for travel has Ladakh and the cosseted Leh in their bucket list.
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Still, Mr. Trump has spent the last three decades, for the most part, cosseted within Trump Tower.
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Yet here, in the cosseted confines of Mar-a-Lago, those concerns seemed a million miles away.
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Macha tareko are small whiting cosseted in yogurt, ginger, garlic and garam masala, then surrendered to the fryer.
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But his madness is that of a cosseted egotist who has experienced an electric shock to his solipsism.
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At military school, Trump did miss out on the cosseted lifestyle he had enjoyed in the Trump family mansion.
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But Arunachal Pradesh has been cosseted by the Indian government mostly for an entirely modern reason: fear of China.
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Firms in increasingly cosseted national markets are freer now to raise prices without losing share to other European firms.
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But more often than not, I felt protective of what we had, more certain of its beauty, its cosseted security.
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Unlike their well-off peers, cosseted by counselors and parents, these young people are typically left to their own devices.
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Eric Trump has never lived outside the cosseted comfort provided by his billionaire father, and never worked outside the family enterprise.
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To his supporters, he is standing up for patriotic values against cosseted athletes and a broader liberal culture that backs them.
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Ritchie's recent filmography, dating from 2009's Sherlock Holmes, has emphasized zany foreground antics cosseted by rich background details and strong pacing.
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And, of course, reality always lurked just beyond the angled walls and weathered backdrops that cosseted his distinguished guests and glamorous models.
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Thanks to his connections, he lived a cosseted life and made a small fortune from financial speculation and the watches he manufactured.
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Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit.
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Japan has a two-tier labour market of cosseted permanent staff and less-protected employees on non-regular contracts—many of them young.
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Touchingly, these crisp linear elements are cosseted by soft brushwork, especially by the grid of pink and white cloudlike blocks across the middle.
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Lily Dale Kidder (Kristine Nielsen), a cosseted housewife of the early 23s, has heard that it was started by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt.
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But it is safe to say that a long-cosseted British ruling class has finally come to the end of itself as it was.
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Boredom is a natural part of development: to grow restless with the cosseted world you were raised in and thus prepare to separate from it.
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Prince Mohammed's plan for an economic overhaul has sent tremors through a nation whose citizens have long enjoyed a cosseted lifestyle underwritten by the state.
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For a while, it does not matter: They can sail along in mid-table, cosseted by their past, insulated by a lingering sense of superiority.
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How much do ordinary customers care about the cultural capital of storied brands like Saint Laurent, so prized and cosseted and worshiped by the industry?
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You can climb a sturdy yellow ladder to view a varied cacophony of objects — ceramic birds, badminton racquets, pigs, flowers — all cosseted together with netting.
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Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh were summoning memories of summer days in the very white, very cosseted country club, prep school world of suburban Washington.
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But the portrait that the Gelbs draw of O'Neill shows a man determined to remain a cosseted child, choosing his women — and discarding his children — accordingly.
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" In a town where everyone is always filleting everyone else, Mr. Iger floats above it all, cosseted in what some call a "a cult of nice.
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Worse still for Mr Mugabe, self-proclaimed veterans of the liberation war whom he has long cosseted (and paid to intimidate his opponents) have turned against him.
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I have been cosseted in Amsterdam for several months, where I am a writer in residence at the university and my novel is a national best seller.
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She is aware of the disparity between her own status and ability to handle the requirements of quarantine and that of someone in a less cosseted position.
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She is aware of the disparity between her own status and ability to handle the requirements of quarantine and that of someone in a less cosseted position.
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They had been close as children when Matthew was the fragile one, scarred by fire as a baby, isolated by his eccentricities, cosseted by an obsessive mother.
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No doubt the quality of the cosseted official product is higher than what is on offer on the streets; and tight regulations around cultivation have pushed up costs.
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Easily charming when he wants to be, Jaime is mercurial in the manner of someone so cosseted by wealth that he has never had to rein himself in.
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There's nothing wrong with choosing cute over challenging, but it feels condescending to those on the spectrum and insulting to audiences who might prefer not to be cosseted.
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So did Lancaster's precise physical performance as the cosseted hero in crisis, Neddy Merrill, running in a tiny swimsuit from pool to pool in some wooded American Arcadia.
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A number of significant male poets esteemed and cosseted in literary canon have long claimed a right to sole agency over how their art is perceived by society.
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But it also boxes in candidates with the narrow, cosseted views of its audience, making it almost impossible to reach out to more moderate Republicans during the general election.
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Some of its teens are arrogant and cosseted by riches; in an age of college admissions cheating scandals, they can afford to buy their way in the old-fashioned way.
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While their numbers are a small fraction of the world's migratory population, and of the world's millionaires, wealthy people are being courted and cosseted by host countries like never before.
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May's Hurricane Katrina moment, not merely for the self-inflicted political damage, but for the evident distance between a cosseted political class and the victims, who were overwhelmingly immigrants and poor.
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The distinctions and resentments are part of a divide that has drawn a blue-collar curtain between the cosseted south and the mills and plants of the north since the Industrial Revolution.
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Bush, on the other hand, the scion of America's most successful political dynasty, a man cosseted his entire life by an almost inconceivable level of privilege and wealth, was a man's man.
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I get into my own car, a cosseted little Miata that ideally I would drive only on dry-cleaned surfaces, and head up into the Catskills, meeting Joyce in the hamlet of Downsville.
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She's transparent about her beliefs and her background, describing her cosseted upbringing in Philadelphia as "fairly affluent" (and her father, whom she loved and eventually rebelled against, as racist, sexist and anti-Semitic).
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We understand precisely who Bikram Choudhury is: a rich, cosseted man who assumed different rules applied to him by virtue not only of his wealth but of the nebulous spirituality of his calling.
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The Supreme Court — cosseted, cordial and militantly untelevised — is going prime time on live TV, with Mr. Trump announcing on Twitter that he will announce his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia at 8 p.m.
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Chanel's Ritz rooms resembled the apartment she maintained above her couture salon across the street: a cosseted, bibelot-strewn, amber-colored space of grand luxe kept for entertaining and interviews, rather than for actually sleeping in.
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He visited Cobham — Chelsea's training center, in a well-heeled, cosseted corner of Surrey — to speak with players, asking them if they wanted to remain at the club and detailing his plans for the season ahead.
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But for the conceit to hold requires writing that seems in some way connected to real life in ways that calling someone "as sexy as diarrhea," at least to this none-too-cosseted ear, do not.
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Mr Corbyn has lived an austere life but also a cosseted one—he grew up in a manor house in Shropshire, doted on by left-wing parents, before immersing himself in the agitprop culture of north London.
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But it also seems to be broadcast from another plane of existence altogether, much as the outcast, lonely Grizabella has been living a completely different life than most of the Jellicle cats in their cosseted community spaces.
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Wolfe didn't have to venture far to research this book, because even though he never lost the soft Virginia accent of his native commonwealth, he spent most of his life in the belly of the cosseted beast.
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Their take on atmospheric black metal—which was cosseted and refined over the course of two years—is emotive, fluid, and relentlessly pretty, with a hypnotic sort of Ash Borer in furs vibe that calls for repeated listens.
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There's a strange, quasi-religious aspect to these exhibitions of near-sacrifice, one that turns Mr. Cruise — he almost died (again) for us — into a would-be martyr, though one who is obviously safe (alive!) and comfortably cosseted.
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She had heavy, inexplicable vaginal bleeding, was reeling from a storm of unprocessed trauma, and living out of her Geo Metro, which made entertaining cosseted adolescents at bar and bat mitzvahs excruciating, especially when daughters danced with their dads.
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The conception of black womanhood that scholars frequently cite — mammy, jezebel or sapphire — is antithetical to the idea of a princess, a cosseted women whose prince comes to sweep her off her feet and solve all of her troubles.
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That leaves the royal family as a species of cosseted but absurdly circumscribed civil servant, their lives arranged in minute detail by bureaucrats, their public statements carefully vetted to ensure they do not overstep their role as constitutional figureheads.
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The change has relieved top equestrians who say their horses are highly cosseted — many are worth millions and like professional athletes they are under the constant care of dietitians, massage therapists, acupuncturists and grooms — and any scrapes are incidental.
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It was hard to imagine that it all started here, the terrorist bombing spree that has riveted the New York metropolitan area for three days, at this sun-cosseted sliver of beach, boardwalk and seafood restaurants on the Jersey Shore.
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Ms. Zenovich proceeds chronologically through Williams's life, from his cosseted upbringing in the Midwest and Marin County through Juilliard, early difficult days as a stand-up comic, his big break of "Mork and Mindy" and the multipronged stardom that ensued.
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But even though she lived in a cosseted part of Manila, in a neighborhood with a Starbucks and a Lamborghini dealership, she knew that the poor were hauling garbage and scrounging for food on the other side of the wall.
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While it is legal for members of Parliament to hire family members, it is not clear that Mr. Fillon's wife or children actually did much for the money, and the scandal has fed public disillusionment with a cosseted political establishment.
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Inside the cosseted Mar-a-Lago grounds, Trump was surrounded by family — including sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and daughter Ivanka and her husband Kushner — as well as the longtime friends he's relied on for advice over the first year of his presidency.
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This consuming novel tracks the convergence of two Indian communities: the privileged society of bourgeois Bangalore, where Vijay's flinty young narrator, Shalini, is cosseted by her wealthy father and caustically unfiltered mother, and, far to the north, a hardscrabble Himalayan village in Kashmir.
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He makes Patricia Hearst's father, Randy Hearst, sympathetic, describing how he transformed from "an overfed plutocrat whose cosseted existence could scarcely differ more" from the kidnappers into someone who listened closely to anyone who might help find his daughter, including inmates at nearby Vacaville prison.
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After all, an English stately home was drafty, isolated and so devoid of creature comforts that a cosseted American heiress might find she had to take her evening ablutions in a tin hip bath filled with lukewarm water hauled up in buckets by a housemaid.
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All her life, she often thought, was in this room, where her father had cosseted her in infancy, where he had seen her through the storms of adolescence, to which every evening he had brought back from his kitchens another chocolate he had invented for her.
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It's still a huge challenge, but it's a long way from the leap into the unknown undertaken by adventurers like McClean, who played an important role in showing us that there are human qualities gained through adversity, difficulty, and risk—virtues perhaps under threat in a cosseted technological age.
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These are decisions made by a handful of ultra-cosseted weirdos—the failson scions of century-old industrial fortunes and wizened petro-reptiles and dead-eyed serial accumulators—who are not at all accustomed or inclined towards taking the rest of the world's opinions, or facts, into account.
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A young would-be writer, abandoned by his mother as a child and raised on a dilapidated farm by a father prone to violence, is reluctantly drawn into the orbit of a rich, worldly urbanite, whose cosseted milieu the poorer man lacks the tools to navigate or comprehend.
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Support for Trump is driven in part by resentment over political and social changes that have enhanced the position of nonwhites in America, and in part by a not-entirely-false sense that the hardworking people of middle America are being laughed at by cosseted elites in major coastal cities.
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Brash, thrice-married, cosseted in a gilded tower high above Fifth Avenue and fond of swearing from the stage at his rallies, Mr. Trump, who has spent his career in pursuit, and praise, of wealth, would seem an odd fit for voters who place greater value on faith, hope and charity.
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The story involves a wildly successful television writer-producer, Glen, whose cosseted life and sense of self goes sideways when his 17-year-old daughter, China (Chloë Grace Moretz), becomes involved in a vaguely intimate relationship with Leslie (John Malkovich, never better), a celebrated auteur and notorious predator four times her age.
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They also did it out of desire: for the crackle of the exoskeleton and the gooeyness within, followed, perhaps, by a Thai silkworm's underlying lilac must; or the cosseted funk of dried shrimp, evoked by a Ugandan katydid; or the clean, clarifying aroma of bruised lemongrass, as with an Amazonian saúva ant.
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But a week ago, as they prepared for the storm to hit Texas, Mr. Trump and his aides were acutely aware of President George W. Bush's slow response to Katrina, and the awful optics of a disengaged president flying high above the disaster to view the damage in a dry, cosseted presidential plane.
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Ben's story-twin, whose life and adventures curiously mirror his own, is Rose (Millicent Simmonds, a discovery), a 12-year-old deaf girl in 1927 who yearns to escape her lonely, cosseted life in Hoboken, N.J. To that end, following in the footsteps of countless other dreamers, she, too, flees to New York.
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Over the past 48 hours, Mr. Christie has mocked Mr. Rubio as a cosseted "boy in the bubble," derided him as "constantly scripted," likened him to "the king of England," and, perhaps most creatively, compared his Senate career to that of a helpless fourth grader who is told which chair to sit in at school.
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He has firm ideas about the decorum he should be shown—the picture above shows the prime minister prostrating himself before him—but little sense of the respect he might owe anyone else: his cosseted poodle, elevated to the rank of Air Chief Marshal, used to jump up onto tables to drink from the glasses of visiting dignitaries.
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He initially wrote the second single, "Little Bubble," to describe the sphere of happiness he and Coffman temporarily shared, but here in 73 "bubble" had become a buzzword, referring to the supposedly cosseted perspective of "coastal elites," and now the song's poignant refrain — "we had our own little bubble, for a while" — sounded like a postelection elegy.
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Although the luxury goods conglomerate Compagnie Financière Richemont took a majority stake in Mr. Alaïa's business in 2007, pouring money into new retail space and acquisition of a corporate headquarters near the Avenue Montaigne, the nerve center of his operation remains a house in the Marais where he lives in cosseted monasticism, surrounded by friends and assistants, three dogs and eight cats.
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He has told aides that he feels bad about the traffic blockades that the Secret Service requires for his travel disrupting the businesses near Trump Tower, and that he has found it less troublesome to spend time at his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Aides say that he misses his former life, and that being cosseted in the White House has been suffocating for him.
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Either that, or the royals are a relic of feudalism, an inbred cabal of animal-loving Germans—the royal family comes from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and changed its name to Windsor in 1917 during World War One—cosseted by the British state, riding around vast tracts of the land they own onboard great packs of horses, sitting at the top of our society reminding everyone that real change and true equality will never come.
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