Sentence examples for everything was permissible from inspiring English sources

Everything was permissible here, though no one but the girls knew each other.

"Middle-class teenage Americans in the 1950s subscribed to an amazing code of sexual frustration," she writes, and continues: Everything was permissible to girls in the way of intimacy except the one thing such intimacies were intended to bring about.

Everything is permissible, he believes, in defense of the Jewish state.

"I believe everything is permissible in speech and imagery," Mr. Bond said.

If you are indifferent to that, as part of your politics, then everything is permissible.

All taste is good taste; the heart wants what it wants; everything is permissible so long as it is inclusive.

When we spoke, he added, "If everything is permissible, and almost nothing is prohibited, it makes a mockery of the law".

A Dangerous Liaison by Carole Seymour-Jones Century £20, pp320 It was Dostoevsky who first espoused the notion that if God is dead, everything is permissible.

We want movies to acknowledge what is real, but also to improve on reality, to give us a vision of a perfect world in which everything is permissible — a world that's sexy, dangerous, scary and smoky and safe for children too.

Their orientations to the Internet are at once opposite and extreme: Reddit seeks some impossible, absolutist libertarian utopia, where everything is permissible and people police themselves; GoFundMe, on the other hand, now seems to believe that man's natural inclination for evil can only be curbed by strict rules handed down from on high.

It is the only philosophy prepared to counter Dostoevsky's claim that without God everything is permissible.