laisser aller

Example Sentences

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This was often mortifying to me, but I think I liked it better on the whole than the laisser-aller indifference of Washington.

From North America — Volume 2 by Trollope, Anthony

This in spite of the alleged tendency in what is commonly known as a relaxing climate toward laisser-aller.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Rather it gives one the impression that old traditions are all but dead and that it is mere improvidence and laisser-aller that allows them to exist.

From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Its easy laisser-aller, its lax rule, and its indifference to regular forms were at an end.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

There was a delightfully free-and-easy, laisser-aller air about everybody and everything at Nome City, which would, perhaps, have jarred upon an ultra-respectable mind.

From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry