Sentence examples for lax moral from inspiring English sources

And although Priestley was personally exempt from the charge of libertinism, determinism and materialism, as ontological theses, seemed to support a lax moral philosophy, in which pleasure was conceived as the summum bonum, morality was conventional, and humans were anyway machines devoid of responsibility for their actions.

An opponent of the Jesuits, Pascal ridiculed Escobar and his confreres as teachers of lax moral principles who believed that the end justifies the means.

In France, Nicolas Sarkozy won the presidency by blaming our troubled times on the lax moral standards and antipatriotic slogans of "les soixante huitards".

Lax moral standards have affected the monarchy King Juan Carlos's son-in-law is being investigated for corruption and the judiciary, whose head resigned last year for using public funds for private trips.

There's the Newsnight investigation that was quashed, and, more crucially, the suggestion that a culture of sexism and the lax moral standards at the corporation had fostered an unquestioning attitude towards Savile.

Goldman claims that the two trends are intimately related, and that they're somehow the doing of post-sixties educated liberals like me, and, perhaps, you, who have gone all in for tolerance, diversity, and lax moral standards while forsaking the troubled working class.

Spanish courtiers returned home shocked at their hosts' booze-soaked, lax morals.

Joseph, for his part, disapproved of his brothers' lax morals - the mistresses, the too-liberal spending.

He delighted in the lax morals of the Italians and documented them in his De l'Amour.

Spanish courtiers returned home shocked at their hosts' booze-soaked, lax morals and Juana eventually went mad.

In the wake of the war, Tangier was an "international zone" governed by seven Western powers, and the city was notorious for its lax morals and louche lifestyle.