Meaning of Spockian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Related to, or characteristic of, Dr. Benjamin Spock or his parenting philosophy.
2. Related to, or characteristic of, the character Spock from Star Trek, especially in being emotionally detached.

Examples

“The Spockian influence on motherhood-at-large is, today, almost legendary.”

“The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.”

“The triumph of the Spockian dictum of a privatized child-rearing world, shorn of political concerns, may, in part, explain the vehemence with which Dr. Spock has been attacked for his own peace activities.”

“They seem to be more certain that desire can be gratified than that it can be aroused — a response that probably owes much to Spockian child-rearing. In earlier times a mother responded to her child's needs when they were expressed powerfully enough to distract her from other cares and activities. Spockian mothers, however, often tried to anticipate the child's needs:[…]”

“And you can see from the Spockian ears and the raised eyebrows, he had a positive Mephistophelian look.”

“She bit into tough, stringy meat that had a pungent, wild taste to it. "Interesting," she commented, attempting a Spockian neutrality.”

“Most cognitive psychologists in the mideighties viewed the brain as a computer-like mechanism based on pure logic and rational thought. There was no room for emotions in their Spockian formulation.”

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