Sentence examples for anything is permissible from inspiring English sources

In an environment of unprecedented artistic variety, where almost anything is permissible and worthy of encouragement, expressionism stands out today as the one strand of art that is woefully unfashionable.

"The rise of the PAD [the conservative pro-royalists whose protests helped to topple Thaksin, and prompted the creation of the redshirts] gave birth to violent mob rule in Thailand - the belief that might is right and that if you have grievances anything is permissible," said Sunai of Human Rights Watch.

Because if you don't get as close to everything as possible, how can you say that you knew everything that you should have known?" In a real war, one in which the very survival of a state is threatened by a foreign adversary, almost anything is permissible, including the suspension of civil liberties, the right to privacy and all the other things we liberals hold dear.

In this absolute battle of good and evil, almost anything was permissible -- and even necessary.

The boys abandoned us, locking themselves in a room doing who knows what, but no one asked because they were boys and anything was permissible.

Anything was permissible, it seemed to me, so long as there was an innocent little old lady – the imaginative, immovable Mrs Wilberforce – a corrupt gang, their visionary leader, and five deaths.

As our relationship deepened it became clear that, for desperate men like us who lived in an amoral Dostoevskian world almost beyond suicide, anything was permissible if it (a) broke a few teeth in the fight for the liberation of the mentally "ill" and (b) brought us closer to the extinction of Ego (we thought in capital letters).

A creator has no moral obligation to his or her fictional characters, and in that sense anything is theoretically permissible in a video game.

But, they said, under the Geneva Conventions, anything short of torture is permissible to get a hardened Qaeda operative to spill a few scraps of information that could prevent terrorist attacks.

Re "Does the Rot on Wall St. Reach Right to the Top?" (Market Watch, Nov. 17), I believe that the current morality crisis in business and finance stems from a belief among most Americans that anything they can get away with is permissible.

Anything less would send a message to banks that deceiving regulators is permissible.