laisser-aller

But who could have believed in such complete indifference, in the utter laisser-aller of such a life?

A Daughter of Eve 2007

When Marie – Angelique left the maternal purgatory, she rose at once into the conjugal paradise prepared for her by Felix, rue du Rocher, in a house where all things were redolent of aristocracy, but where the varnish of society did not impede the ease and “laisser-aller” which young and loving hearts desire so much.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Not a frequenter of those fashionable places of entertainment showed a more amiable laisser-aller in the dance — that peculiar dance at which gendarmes think proper to blush, and which squeamish society has banished from her salons.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

English prejudices are terrible, they take away what is an essential to all artists, the _laisser-aller_, unconstraint.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

You have never before had that _laisser-aller_ of a writer which shows the hidden strength. '

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

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 Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

That _laisser-aller_ policy of his threatens to land us in serious difficulties.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

Those were the days of _laisser-faire_, _laisser-aller_ at home, and it was not deemed to be part of the duties of government to give any special protection to

India, Old and New Valentine Chirol 1890

ABANDON which, accompanied by a joyous laisser-aller and a certain movement of the foot striking the floor, is exceedingly graceful.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Tokuhon, in his capacity of kwanryo, naturally had much weight with the shogun, but Yoshimasa's conduct on that occasion must be attributed mainly to a laisser-aller mood which he had then developed, and which impelled him to follow the example set by the

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886