laisser aller

Example Sentences

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Nothing offends an eye accustomed to our native laisser aller so much as a well-brushed hat and shining boots. 

From Worldly Ways and Byways by Gregory, Eliot

I had enjoyed the singing in St. Petersburg, but there was a laisser aller, a completely gay spirit, in this Christmas-Eve gypsy party in Moscow which was much more “whirling away.”

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

This was only natural, seeing that he had not yet instilled into us his own attractive habit of laisser aller and laisser faire, and that his red trousers offered such a beautiful mark.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 by Various

If the defects outweighed the virtues, "il faudrait les renvoyer de suite—si non, il faudrait les laisser aller."

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Excellent!—only not so much laisser aller; a little more stiff—more drawn up!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various