Sentence examples for 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.

To take another writer important to Trilling: D. H. Lawrence's novels meant one thing when explicit discussions of sexuality were taboo; they mean something else in a sexually permissive time, when readers are likely to take them as ratifying the ideal of conscience-free sexuality.

Thus, the early 20th century seems to have constituted a particularly permissive time window for SIV zoonoses with clear epidemic consequences; for example, both epidemiological evidence and population size studies indicate that HIV-1 group M as well as HIV-2 group A spread epidemically at rates nearly equivalent to a tenfold increase in each decade [6], [13], [41].

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.

I doubt such a viscous solution would be acceptable in these permissive times, although there may be a ray of technological hope in our future.

We live now in permissive times -- art historically speaking -- when any and all art-making approaches are potentially viable, especially so if they riff on, reuse, or recycle the past.

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

"Becoming a world-known artist has required determination and courageous work in a world that was not that respectful and permissive at the time".