mollycoddelistically

Updated: May 26, 2025

So successful was the self-delusion of the militarist that sanity appeared mollycoddelism. Their greatest fear was fear of the loss of fear. And now they were threatened by colorless economists who were mollycoddelistically making clear that the "stern reality" was the giant hallucination. It seemed rather close to farce. That night he was going back. Katie, too, had gone.

Susan Glaspell - The Visioning