But the fact that we are tired of conventional laxity is no good reason for rushing to the other extreme of conventional and hampering austerity.

A Christian pastor who did not mind about his money was not an ideal prevalent among the rural minds of fat central England, and might have seemed to introduce a dangerous laxity of supposition about Christian laymen who happened to be creditors.

I have observed in some instances the most deplorable laxity in this particular.

The first poem in the Rossetti MS. may be adduced as one instanceout of the enormous number which fill Mr. Sampson's notesof the dangers of editorial laxity.

Such is the fashionable laxity of morals, that I doubt not many of his associates would laugh at his misconduct, and that he would still continue to pass with the world as an honorable man.

The countenance of the Herr Hofmeister changed from official sternness to an expression of decent concern as he listened, and ere long it took a decidedly forgiving laxity of muscle.

In his conversations on the subject, amidst his often indulged laxity of talk, there was ever a deep insight into the human heart.

It winked at petty theft, loitering and other little laxities, while it stressed good manners and a fine faithfulness in major concerns.

Or Wordsworthwith his eternalHere we go up, and up, and up, and here we go down, down, and here we go roundabout, roundabout!Look at the nerveless laxity of his Excursion!What interminable prosing!

The explanation of these refusals is not far to seek if we believe Arnault's description of Pauline"An extraordinary combination of the most faultless physical beauty and the oddest moral laxity.

Excessive gambling had so long been a notorious vice of the French princes, that her letting herself down to join the gaming-table was not regarded as indicating any peculiar laxity of principle; while the stakes which she permitted herself, and the losses she incurred, though they seemed heavy to her anxious German friends, were as nothing when compared with those of the king's brothers.

It is doubtless the increasing Chamber practice of the judges which has occasioned this regrettable laxity.

The conscience of the Romans, otherwise in economic matters so scrupulous, showed, so far as the community was concerned, a remarkable laxity.

"With the same theoretical laxity and practical security," as in the case of Parliaments and temporal judges, "was provision made for the conduct of Church affairs."