laisser aller

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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)