laxity

• They do not at all deny either the duty or the expedience of leading a new and holy life, but they cannot understand how it can be pleasant: they cannot believe or admit that it is more pleasant than a life of liberty, laxity, and enjoyment. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
• Any laxity, and the laziest man was bound to start an epidemic of laziness Don Ferdinando set off for the Vega, eight hundred feet sheer below the mine. —  Adventures in Many Lands
• When his advance notices first appeared, the New York critics, who are a singularly unconfiding, incredulous lot, were inclined to discount his European reputation When they learned that M. Rémy was not only a great artist, but a man whose character was "wholly free from that deplorable laxity which is so often a blot on the proud escutcheon of his noble profession;" that he had married an American lady; that he had "embraced the Protestant religion"--no sect was specified, possibly to avoid jealousy--and that his health was delicate, they were moved to suspect that he might have to ask that allowances be made for his singing. —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
• And the very diversity, laxity, and weakness of the general shareholding element, which will work to prevent its organizing itself in the interests of its property, or of evolving any distinctive traditions or positive characters, will obviously prevent its obstructing the continual appearance of new enterprises, of new shareholders to replace the loss of its older constituents At the opposite pole of the social scale to that about which shareholding is most apparent, is a second necessary and quite inevitable consequence of the sudden transition that has occurred from a very nearly static social organization to a violently progressive one. —  Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought
• In the endeavor to compete with the gayeties elsewhere, a laxity has been encouraged and permitted that has won for Berlin in the last ten years, an unrivalled position as a purveyor of after-dark pleasures. —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View

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