That doesn't seem like a protective attitude to me.

But the other staff take a protective and encouraging attitude with Julie.

(June 2001) Too many people have a sort of protective attitude about art.

Females are occasionally found coiled around their eggs in a protective attitude.

Children are likely to perceive this protective attitude as meddlesome rather than caring.

Such styles are protective attitudes developed early in life as necessary armor against an emotionally destructive environment.

It seems the protective attitude went both ways between Jeannotte and her students.

But Mark Nicholas, his captain, took a rather more protective attitude.

Officials stated that the youths had a "protective attitude" toward the park and claimed the right to "do their own thing".

He was a soft-spoken ex-football coach who took a protective attitude toward his younger wife.