laisser aller
Example Sentences
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But who could have believed in such complete indifference, in the utter laisser-aller of such a life?
From A Daughter of Eve by Balzac, Honoré de
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
How had we never remembered all we had heard of her love of laisser-aller, her taste for adventure, her delight in travelling, when she could, unattended and incognita?
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
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
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)
