One argument against the women's colleges says they foster a hothouse environment that is not reflective of the "real world" that students must confront upon graduation.

In this hothouse environment, motifs become irritating.

Living together in this hothouse environment opens the doors to hysteria, tears, innovative brainstorms and the odd flirtation with success.

At the time she was thoroughly sick of the hothouse environment of campus life and longed for a break in the grinding monotony of library research.

His resentment and frustration feed the fever of a hothouse environment.

Their spacious New York City loft becomes a hothouse environment.

In this hothouse environment, tensions are mounting.

All of that contributed to something of a hothouse environment inside Citigroup during that period.

Everything suggests richness, extravagance: a hothouse environment into which nothing of society outside this coddled one intrudes.

"But 1992 has provided a hothouse environment that has accelerated these tendencies toward cooperation."