laisser aller
Example Sentences
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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
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
With the "laisser-aller" of a tired man, he trusted to his luck, which had so far served him well.
From Maitre Cornelius by Balzac, Honoré de
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
