conflictless

What I often find problematic with those novels is the tendency to internalize absolutely external conflicts or turn the chaos of history into conflictless aesthetical discourse.

Jennifer Nix: Resurrecting Literature: Sustenance for the Progressive Soul 2008

And then comes the longing for the classless, prejudice-free, conflictless, universal society that necessarily results from liberated consciousness—“We Are the World,” a pubescent version of Alle Menschen werden Brüder, the fulfillment of which has been inhibited by the political equivalents of Mom and Dad.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

And then comes the longing for the classless, prejudice-free, conflictless, universal society that necessarily results from liberated consciousness—“We Are the World,” a pubescent version of Alle Menschen werden Brüder, the fulfillment of which has been inhibited by the political equivalents of Mom and Dad.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Thus, although conflict among intimates can have more tragic results than among less intimate persons, in the light of the circumstances discussed, precisely the most firmly grounded relation may take a chance at discord, whereas good and moral but less deeply rooted relationships apparently follow a much more harmonious and conflictless course.

Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

Thus, although conflict among intimates can have more tragic results than among less intimate persons, in the light of the circumstances discussed, precisely the most firmly grounded relation may take a chance at discord, whereas good and moral but less deeply rooted relationships apparently follow a much more harmonious and conflictless course.

Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

Thus, although conflict among intimates can have more tragic results than among less intimate persons, in the light of the circumstances discussed, precisely the most firmly grounded relation may take a chance at discord, whereas good and moral but less deeply rooted relationships apparently follow a much more harmonious and conflictless course.

Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

This is not to say that the book is conflictless, but the conflicts weren't based on disrespecting the other person.

Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary 2009