laisser aller
Example Sentences
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Alvanley had a delightful recklessness and laisser aller in everything.
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Harold Begbie
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Eliot Gregory
So laisser aller is the cry of the age, a dead negation of thought and volition.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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
