It was a thread that ran though his sociological research documenting the gap between what Catholics thought about sex and marriage — their more relaxed stance concerning artificial birth control, for example — and the more proscriptive positions of the church.
Dr. Dunbar, however, was concerned with relaxed, contagious social laughter, not the tyrant's cackle or the "polite titter" of awkward conversation.
Cronenberg has here directed an adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke - part of a publishing series which includes The Road to Perdition, recently shot by Sam Mendes - although this has a cleaner, more uncluttered design, is more relaxed and less obviously concerned to transmit the super-cool novelty of its comic-book origins.
On the one end of it is what you might call a "cosmopolitan" philosophy: a relaxed, liberal attitude to issues concerning national identity (like immigration) and to questions of morality and lifestyle (like gay marriage).
Albert is happy, relaxed and as always not concerned about individual numbers.
(female, term 4) It brought insight into the profession when the mentor, in a relaxed atmosphere, shared his/her experiences concerning how to handle different situations.
Anyone familiar with his relaxed, expansive style will have noted with concern that his pre-Sunderland press conference lasted a mere six minutes.
Nonetheless, hippies continued to have an influence on the wider culture, seen, for example, in more relaxed attitudes toward sex, in the new concern for the environment, and in a widespread lessening of formality.
And Kit Juckes of Société Générale points out that share prices are still benefiting from the relaxed monetary policy that is causing such concern to fast-growing emerging nations (see 8.51am).
Beyond the West End of London, there are other communities concerned with the impact of relaxed trading hours.
