Is it possible or even desirable to cultivate these identities in what amounts to a hothouse atmosphere?

In the hothouse atmosphere of German politics, the toll mess has become a ripe issue.

In this hothouse atmosphere the jury deliberated less than two hours before finding Frank guilty; the next day the judge sentenced him to death.

And the crowd went crazy in the hothouse atmosphere.

Removed from the hothouse atmosphere of the Wagner circle, the music hardly seems criminal at all.

He spent a few months working at the Vatican, but says he was stymied by the "political hothouse" atmosphere of the place.

The sport creates a hothouse atmosphere in this province's long winters, especially when everyone knows the root system of the family tree.

The pitfall for everyone is succumbing to the hothouse atmosphere.

But the hothouse atmosphere is just that, a place where scores of living things can thrive and spread, including bacteria.

She had lived too long in the hothouse atmosphere of court intrigue not to be able to see the obvious.