Sentence:  The <WSD>Spockian</WSD> 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. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Related to, or characteristic of, Dr. (Benjamin Spock) or his parenting philosophy.