The fact that the papers had not yet been signed perhaps made her oversolicitous, she later admitted.

He led me out of the crush of oversolicitous bodies.

And so they were solicitous, oversolicitous, he thought.

Was it his imagination, or was Kaelor a bit overalert, oversolicitous?

The group was perhaps oversolicitous of a bygone cutting-edge status, calling often for shows of respect.

Too many still have nylon bedspreads and an oversolicitous owner who assumes that guests want their rooms at 80F.

He also considered the chief medical officer a fussy, oversolicitous mother hen, although he liked him personally.

Since he had a project of his own, he was only too glad to see the last of his oversolicitous family for awhile.

Kelly McAndrew is a model of meddle as the oversolicitous, smug sibling.

"My mistake, then," Calhoun said, sounding oversolicitous.

He had to keep the Martian out of harms way, coddle him and cosset him, all without ever seeming patronizing or oversolicitous.

She also appeared in City Slickers (as the telephone voice of Billy Crystal's character's over-protective and oversolicitous mother).

But the treasures of the Green Room beckoned her, and Liriel soon found herself glumly wishing she'd sent the oversolicitous pirate off with Fyodor.

Uncle Willy brought up a small pitcherful of cranberry juice when he heard she was ill, and it took her most determined efforts to evict him and an oversolicitous Aunt Ermy.

Fromm uses the example of "an oversolicitous mother: While she consciously believes that she is particularly fond of her child, she has actually a deeply repressed hostility toward the object of her concern.

(In 2008 parents were criticised for being oversolicitous and their offspring for being little princes and princesses; this year the fashion is to bash them for being, respectively, neglectful and unsocialised.)

You may also be tempted to baste the oversolicitous staff, who lose no opportunity to mention your waiter's identity: "Tom will be your waiter," "Hi, I'm Tom, your waiter," "That's your waiter, Tom."

If Al siphons off some of the cash for car repairs and Wanda has periodic spells of regret, if Rachel proves oversolicitous of the mother's health and Richard can't help wondering if he isn't being financially exploited, well, those are hitches to be expected.

Recently, researchers at the University of Washington have reported in the journal Paediatrics that just three sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy involving both parents and child can have long-term benefits in both dissuading the parents from being "oversolicitous" and promoting strategies for coping with the pain.