Sentence Examples

  • He was without command of poetic form, and he could only be called a philosopher in an age when the term was used with such meaningless laxity as was customary in the 18th century.
  • We may detect occasional laxity also in his handling of his verse.
  • This same phenomenon, which occurs elsewhere, cannot be attributed to any laxity of the Germans.
  • The completion of the second Temple (516 B.C.) has been followed by disillusionment as to the anticipated prosperity, by indifference to worship, scepticism as to providence, and moral laxity.'
  • His increasing ill-health and a certain moral laxity (as shown in his judgment on Sappho) led to a quarrel with the consistory.
 
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