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

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 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)

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

That laisser-aller policy of his threatens to land us in serious difficulties.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas