Sentence examples for permissive mood from inspiring English sources

But world swimming is no longer in a permissive mood.

An independent summit of experimental jazz, the festival has an aesthetic descended from the scrappy, permissive mood of downtown New York in the 1970s.

This inquiry is concerned as much with the question of religious sanction as with the sociological factors generating the permissive atmosphere and mood for the depiction of sexual motifs".

As Artie and Harry settle in with Joe, whose child-rearing style is permissive to the point of anarchy, a curious mood of juvenile, treehouse misogyny settles over the film.

If the rules of engagement were highly permissive, other soldiers say that they also detected a darker mood in their units that further coloured the way that soldiers behaved.

Intense!" But around McGrath the mood was closer to a school field trip taken in the care of a permissive history teacher.

Texas remains relatively permissive.

(He had permissive parents).

Almost twice as permissive.

The "permissive society" never recovered.

Permissive and liberal - and wrong.