Sentence examples for more permissive time from inspiring English sources

That was a more permissive time.

It was a much more permissive time, kind of like the Roaring 20s all over again.

Ms. Hebert gingerly described the early years of the fiddle fest by saying, "It was a more permissive time".

In this sense, Galgut's account is perhaps a compassionate act: describing for a more permissive time what, for his subject, could not be freely brought into the light.

But the soft deal was also in tune with the more permissive times, when sex with the under age was often winked at, especially among entertainment world sophisticates.

In the present study, we employ hypothetical dilemmas to investigate whether judgments of utilitarian sacrifice are becoming more permissive over time.

Is it the fact that every disciplinary act would carry the threat of a child choosing the more permissive parent the next time around?

Moreover, the U.S. EPA's proposed standard for greater than 10,000 years is 250 times more permissive than the European limit.

However, the Brown Norway rat liver is 10 times more permissive to the adenovirus and produced high levels of the vector-encoded protein.

One incident he described took place in the early days of the war in Iraq when rules of engagement were more permissive than they are now:  "Many times, at the trigger lines, they waited and waited before they fired, putting themselves at risk with cars skidding to a halt right in the middle of their position.

Unfortunately, in trying to update the naughty sparkle of the studio days to our own more permissive but more anxious and less well-written times, "Laws of Attraction," like the somewhat better "Intolerable Cruelty," seems desperately unsure of itself at crucial moments.