| Authoritarianism, like permissiveness, paralyses and frustrates in others the thrust to be new and creative. |
| Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness. |
| The responses of the women generally did not support a hypothesis about greater permissiveness in sexual behavior. |
| Even in an age of moral permissiveness, such behaviour was held to be politically unacceptable. |
| It is the aggressive attempt to export liberal permissiveness that causes fundamentalism to fight back vehemently and assert itself. |
| Ms. Suzi Leather: I think in this whole area a cautious permissiveness is probably the way forward. |
