Sentence examples for permissive era from inspiring English sources

It's often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances.

When the feature was launched, hesitantly in 1970, it was viewed as part and parcel of the permissive era.

The film came at the start of the sexually permissive era, and consists of Dee complaining about the "cast-iron girdle" her mother buys to hide her burgeoning curves.

"I think it's a reaction to the 60s, to what most people considered an overly permissive era, which was followed by a sharp increase in crime, which was followed by a vindictive reaction, which we are still undergoing.

Why, when plenty welcome it as an act of belated equality while large swaths of public opinion isn't much worried by marriage, church or civil, either way because it doesn't bother to get married in a socially permissive era?

The greater readiness to contemplate and discuss the abortion issue in the permissive era made it possible posthumously to pardon Evans, despite the ambiguous outcome of the Brabin inquiry.

We're now in one of those permissive eras, which Rose calls "the Third Wave" of legal gambling.

But it's little more than a reworking for the post-permissive era of the first big CinemaScope romance, Three Coins in the Fountain, and rather less fun.

The widespread availability of contraception signaled a transition from the stricter sexual mores of the Victorian era to a more sexually permissive society.

In his effrontery, Bertolucci put his abuse in front of the camera and like so many men of that era, maintains a tacit claim of permissive liberation and declines to see what was wrong.

For example, one study has shown that young women in post-Soviet Russia perceive the social environment as more permissive of alcohol consumption than during the Soviet era, and could be more involved in drinking behaviour to exercise their personal freedoms in new modern times (Hinote et al., 2009).