And Puerto Colombia, a small port on the north coast in Henri Pittier national park – with its pretty colonial buildings and distinctly laid-back Caribbean feel – was just the place to do it.
Service, however, tends to have a distinctly laid-back flavor; don't be in a hurry.
But the force of his charismatic personality and the distinctly laid-back and flexible management of the famous Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge made it possible for him to recruit a small team of dedicated microscopists and geneticists.
Their protest signs were tied up on nearby fences, and the atmosphere was distinctly laid-back.
Hannibal Buress has made the rounds in the comedy world writing for Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, acting in Broad City and The Eric Andre Show, and performing stand-up shows across the country in his distinctly laid-back comedic style.
From above, it's a different city out here: flat, spacious and large-scale, with industrial buildings, giant facilities such as London City Airport and the Excel, and emerging urban development including Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks Enterprise Zone – all laid out with distinctly un-London-like regularity.
Last year, when I laid out my vision of a distinctly American internationalism, I said that we must see China clearly, not through the filters of posturing and partisanship.
He laid out what he saw as a distinctly British notion of liberty, in which rights were married to social duties, in contrast to "selfish individualism" and "simplistic libertarianism".
While reviewers criticised the styling of early NAITs of having a distinctly cottagey feel, Ian White observed that the typical Naim product is "meticulously laid out, clean, and well put together".
So the Quiet Man has finally stormed from the cabinet, spitting nails and scorning a government that has (he alleges) laid itself open to the charge that its fiscal programme was "distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest".
Innis laid the basis for scholarship that looked at the social sciences from a distinctly Canadian point of view.
