Jon Lovett

I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.

American Producer

Michael Paterniti

Listening to Brunello Cucinelli is like getting your own personal tutorial with a very glamorous, fatherly professor. He is charming and solicitous, speaking in an urgent, musical voice. Associates say he is both disciplined and happy, as well as extremely meticulous. When it comes to business, he's known as savvy and calculating.

American Writer

Xenophon

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

Greek Soldier

Christopher Columbus

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Italian Explorer

James Wolfe

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

British Soldier

Sylvia Plath

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

American Poet

Thomas Malthus

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

English Economist

Karl Philipp Moritz

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

German Author

Solicitous often implies a kind, caring attitude; it's used to show warmth.

Compassionate Tone

Use 'solicitous' when someone's concern appears sincere and deep, not superficial.

Genuine Concern

'Solicitous' can be a polite way to show interest without being intrusive.

Polite Interest

Use 'solicitous' to describe someone who is extremely keen or eager to do something.

Keen Eagerness

Shows anxiety or anticipation toward an upcoming event or opportunity.

Anticipatory Anxiety

'Solicitous' can imply a positive motivation underlying someone's eagerness.

Positive Drive

 but that growth fits nicely into this narrative and has led to those claims that Africa is leapfrogging the old ways of energy and building its power system from the ground up, one solar panel at a time. It's a nice, solicitous narrative, but also quite naïve.

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 commit me to the care of usually a very very kind solicitous and quite glamorous Pan Am or TWA cabin attendant she would take my papers away so there went my identity I was already on the way to being a new person leave me by the hand