Sentence examples for permissive world from inspiring English sources

Still, even in our own feebly permissive world, minorities can be found that we are indeed prepared to anathematise.

I realized that while I had one foot in the permissive world of the 60's, my other foot remained planted in the realm of my obsessive study of aesthetic theory.

But Sullivan does touch on one of the many sad truths about Jackson's life: how useful he was to the media as the resident freakshow, the vessel into which all mockery about the weird, self-centered, overly permissive world of celebrity could be poured.

Mr. Maher has always been an uneasy fit at the network, its acquisition of him a classic case of a mainstream media company seeking a youthful edge by raiding the rising and more permissive world of cable, where Mr. Maher honed his sarcastic wit.

But his film has been embraced by Christian leaders not just as a faith-affirming experience, but also as a backlash against a permissive, godless world of media and entertainment.

Photographs of nude sunbathers on the beach in Europe and a video that plays off the myth of Persephone head in a different direction, toward a permissive pastoral world in which Hollywood glamour, mixed with frustration and rage, feels continents away.

Familiar as this seems — staid Midwestern matron confronts permissive urban world, ineffable longings stir — Moriarty's plot appears at first to provide an opportunity for exploring what happens when, as Virginia Woolf put it, "Chloe likes Olivia": the relationship of two women, "unlit by the capricious and colored light of the other sex".

But in "today's world of permissive atrocity" it was time to reëxamine one's interactions with fellow-citizens.

The 1970s art world was a permissive place, but not quite loose enough for Mark Greenwold.

It was the wrong time and the wrong place, a moment of power struggle in the art world between a permissive profusion of styles and an uncompromising insistence on the inevitability of abstraction.

The environment became less permissive after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, Mr. Yousef said, but until then, "it was like paradise".