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• s  full of anxiety and concern
  solicitous parents
  solicitous about the future
• s  showing hovering attentiveness
  solicitous about her health
  made solicitous inquiries about our family

• The King thought that his ambassador was too much of a compromiser and that he was being overly solicitous of a known rebel.
• If she is alone, she is tender and solicitous like any other mother, in a matter-of-fact way.
• He is almost as solicitous toward employees as he is toward celebrities, and treats autograph hunters as tenderly as his audiences or his relatives.

News & Articles

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• Nice-guy Obama fails Turkey's democracy
  The Obama administration has been far too solicitous of Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan and his increasingly authoritarian ways. Its reasoning is based on the flawed assumption that being nice will ensure cooperation from this strategic ally. That hasn't been the case.
  July 2, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• Pranab Mukherjee in Times of India
  Making a statement in both Houses of Parliament on Friday, Mukherjee said, "The government remains deeply solicitous about the welfare of people of Indian origin living abroad. There is a large community of people of Indian origin in Malaysia who...
• Rahm Emanuel in New York Times
  The new administration is already preparing to introduce legislation echoing a previous McCain bill on the commission idea, Mr. Emanuel said, adding, "We have been very respectful and solicitous of his ideas."
• Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic.net
  An individual's reputation is not to be treated as regrettable but unavoidable roadkill on the highway of public controversy, but nor should an overly solicitous regard for personal reputation be permitted to 'chill' freewheeling debate on matters... Ian Binnie http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Binnie&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE9_K_9ZeBEYd5EhNViKho1WXsk0Q Globe and Mail http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080628.BCMAIR28/TPStory/National&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEv2n3Ekb2_U9RU_A3IkNLCoU3fOg Jun 28, 2008 92173 122452 solicitude Follow his example," the Pope told the religious, "and joyfully continue his mission, still valid today, even though the social conditions in which we live have changed. In particular, spread ever more the spirit of prayer and of solicitude...