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  • They were always so unexpected: their sleepy eyes, their waxy hands, the fingers lax, the tattered rag doll soaked with blood.†   (source)
  • His clothes had dried during the day, but they felt greasy and lax and his stomach was bloated with water.†   (source)
  • I've gotten to really like Darrell and Gabe and the other lax guys.†   (source)
  • Now, faced with political cases like yours, all prosecutorial organs and courts would rather be too severe than too lax.†   (source)
  • Ministry blunders....culprits not apprehended....lax security....Dark wizards running unchecked...national disgrace....Who wrote this?†   (source)
  • People could criticize her parenting skills, point to moments when Lacy had let Peter down by being too lax or too firm, too removed or too smothering.†   (source)
  • Could it be that WICKED had become overconfident and lax in their security?†   (source)
  • He would bide his time, make them think he was content to remain here ...and then, when they had grown lax, he would be off again.†   (source)
  • Her full lips were lax, her shoulders down, and her eyes soft and assenting.†   (source)
  • I hold myself to blame for my laxness.†   (source)
  • Even the laxity of divorce regulations in the early years of the revolution was undoubtedly a revulsion from the nineteenth-century Victorian immobility of marriage and the consequent hypocrisy that developed from it.†   (source)
  • Pretty lax security here, isn't there?†   (source)
  • Dussel is terribly lax when it comes to obeying the rules of the house.†   (source)
  • You might expect that if you spent such an extended period in twelve different households, what you would gather is twelve different ideas about how to raise children: there would be the strict parents and the lax parents and the hyperinvolved parents and the mellow parents and on and on.†   (source)
  • More good news: As the day has worn on, everyone has gotten a little more lax about guarding the bedroom constantly, just as I'd hoped.†   (source)
  • He would not tolerate laxity.†   (source)
  • Selitos knew that in all the world there were only three people who could match his skill in names: Aleph, lax, and Lyra.†   (source)
  • They bore themselves defiantly, and they were singing, but you could see that discipline was unusually lax: their caps were all worn at different angles, they carried their carbines just as they liked and they were not marching in time.†   (source)
  • She'd gotten lax in her church attendance.†   (source)
  • A jet flies over downtown Los Angeles, making the big swing before looping back around on its descent to LAX.†   (source)
  • Then parental laxity is the rule of the day.†   (source)
  • He slumped further down on the curb, his hands sliding laxly from his thighs and dangling below the fork of his crotch.†   (source)
  • "I forget how regrettably lax mundane education is," Valentine said.†   (source)
  • Maybe they'd gotten tired of the lax security and moved to a gated community where the guardian didn't spend all his time taking celestial selfies.†   (source)
  • We find," Gerasimov consulted his notes, "that there are twenty-nine Polish engineers at the Polyarnyy submarine yard, mainly in quality control and inspection posts, that mail and message-handling procedures are very lax, and the Captain Ramius did not, as he supposedly threatened in his letter to Comrade Padorin, sail his submarine into New York harbor, but was rather in a position a thousand kilometers south when the submarine was destroyed."†   (source)
  • Security is very lax there.†   (source)
  • It says SMOOTH MOVE, EX-LAX The Deiverator has heard of these stickers.†   (source)
  • On the fourth day she got some Ex-Lax out of the head nurse.†   (source)
  • You have been blind to the world, Islanzadi, and lax upon your throne.†   (source)
  • He had been getting lax lately.†   (source)
  • In the crack between your two front teeth Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax ...†   (source)
  • "Talk about lax," Abby said.†   (source)
  • There seemed to be a similarly lax attitude concerning fornication on the slopes of Everest: even though they paid lip service to the prohibition, more than a few Sherpas made exceptions for their own behavior-in 1996, a romance even blossomed between a Sherpa and an American woman associated with the IMAX expedition.†   (source)
  • "That reminds me," Uncle chuckles, "chisai toki—when Stephen was small his favorite food was Ex-Lax."†   (source)
  • I knew a cat called Goat that had more moves than Ex-Lax.†   (source)
  • Augustus regretted that his preoccupation with the arrows had made him so lax that he had failed to protect the horses.†   (source)
  • Just promise me nobody slipped Ex-Lax into my pudding.†   (source)
  • Rall would be roundly criticized later by some of his junior officers for being lazy, lax, indifferent to the possibility of surprise attack, and a drunkard.†   (source)
  • He'd been proud to teach in a public school, never mind the lax discipline.†   (source)
  • Or more lax?†   (source)
  • Her lax mouth hung open in a perfect O, and God alone knew at what her glazed and smoky eyes were staring in such brute apathy.†   (source)
  • He felt her give, degree by degree, even as he felt the hand he held in his go lax.†   (source)
  • But Moody extended his authority downstairs to Reza and Essey, who were lax in their devotions.†   (source)
  • But now, with the place suddenly full of new "wackos" and lax oversight plus the ongoing contraband cigarette drama, the Camp was off the chain.†   (source)
  • She felt the color drain out of her cheeks, felt her muscles go lax, even as her heart shot like a missile to her throat.†   (source)
  • lax crouched in the entrance, ripped at some bloody bones.†   (source)
  • I had also been lax.†   (source)
  • She had flown to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and taken the night flight to Marseilles, where French immigration was at best a mass of confusion and at worst intentionally lax.†   (source)
  • Ex-Lax awaits.†   (source)
  • Above them, beyond a sheet of glass, she could distinguish a booth with two rows of faces looking down at her: the lax, anxious face of James Taggart, with Lillian Rearden beside him, her hand resting reassuringly on his arm-a man who had arrived by plane from Washington and had been introduced to her as Chick Morrison-and a group of young men from his staff, who talked about percentage curves of intellectual influence and acted like motorcycle cops.†   (source)
  • Slackness, laxness, nobody caring beyond a bit of lip-service.†   (source)
  • Using a bar phone to call Nationwide at LAX, he was quickly connected with a public-relations officer who confirmed that Thomas Lee Vadance was on the passenger manifest.†   (source)
  • Not good for much other than sinning and similar lax ways.†   (source)
  • The shelves bore iodine, Mercurochrome, vitamin capsules, dental floss, aspirin, Anacin, Bufferin, Argyrol, Musterole, Ex-Lax, Milk of Magnesia, Sal Hepatica, Aspergum, two Gillette razors, one Schick Injector razor, two tubes of shaving cream, a bent and somewhat torn snapshot of a fat black-and-white cat asleep on a porch railing, three combs, two hairbrushes, a bottle of Wildroot hair ointment, a bottle of Fitch Dandruff Remover, a small, unlabelled box of glycerin†   (source)
  • Let the extreme depression over our national dignity, the inconveniences felt everywhere from a lax and ill government, the revolt within North Carolina, the late menacing disturbances in Pennsylvania, and the actual insurrections and rebellions in Massachusetts, declare—!†   (source)
  • Everyone preferred real cigarettes, of course, but there was never enough of them (and toward the end of the conflict, none at all), and the leaves provided a bit of mirth and laxity to our spirits, if also a seizing headache at evening's end.†   (source)
  • And she cooked fatty fried foods that were bad for Red's heart, and she was much too lax with her children, and that queen bed she had requested completely filled Stem's little room, barely allowing space for a person to edge around it.†   (source)
  • We began opening the packages of Ex-Lax and emptying the contents of each box into the fudge.†   (source)
  • I must confess to a laxness in the matter of National Parks.†   (source)
  • Only, I may be haunted one day because of my laxity.†   (source)
  • Anyway, in Virginia they're very lax about driver's licenses.†   (source)
  • Her thought hardened like barnacles around her few selfish ideas as Clumly's mind softened, expanded, grew lax.†   (source)
  • A soft laxity, an illusion of warmth, flowed stubbornly down her body, and for a few moments she continued to lie still.†   (source)
  • The Lord ain't going to bless no church what lets its young people get so lax, no sir.†   (source)
  • lax in attending classes
  • In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax.   (source)
  • We stop at the steps, clumped, holding our hats between our lax hands...   (source)
    lax = relaxed
  • The pony talked with his ears. You could tell exactly how he felt about everything by the way his ears pointed. Sometimes they were stiff and upright and sometimes lax and sagging.   (source)
  • Noble contrast to the lax morality so common among foreign politicians.   (source)
    lax = lacking in strictness or strength
  • Re'lar Ambrose is officially remanded for laxity in his duty.†   (source)
  • Her plans — her plans for Richard — must have been going well, despite my laxness.†   (source)
  • But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.†   (source)
  • He is surprised to find a clergyman reading Hawthorne: the man has been accused of sensualism, and — especially after The Scarlet Letter— of a laxity in morals.†   (source)
  • This is because treating you too severely would just be a mistake in method, but treating you too laxly would be a mistake in political direction.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of things about the trial that were wrong; but the practice of jurisprudence was much laxer then.†   (source)
  • This unfortunate event is yet another example of the laxity of our present social services, and the need for improved legislation to increase protection for children at risk.†   (source)
  • Then the usual garbage: harboring enemies of the state due to laxness, their exalted positions once again protected by the Komitet-that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • Moody, in his Islamic righteousness of the previous months, had complained about Essey's laxity in covering herself and had pointed to Nasserine as a paragon of virtue.†   (source)
  • -almost stealthily bearing down upon his laxity and his absorption, as if that glimpse of the side of his face, that turned-away smile, were a teasing, innocent, flickering and beautiful vision-some mirage to her strained and wandering eyes.†   (source)
  • The only reason it's here is that this place happens to be across the street from LAX.†   (source)
  • But I bet they've grown lax in hand-to-hand combat.†   (source)
  • All his muscles went lax, his body slumped, his eyeballs rotated outward.†   (source)
  • He'd been lax about shaving lately, there seemed little point to it, so his beard was sprouting.†   (source)
  • Now she had six Ex-Lax and she was ready to bargain.†   (source)
  • Case in point: Y.T. has been pooned onto the same cab all the way from LAX.†   (source)
  • "Smooth move, Ex-Lax," she says, climbing back into Ng's van.†   (source)
  • per hovers and watches; Rife looks up to it and motions forward with one hand, shouting, "Co to LAX!†   (source)
  • Now, LAX is probably quieter than it has been at any point since it was built.†   (source)
  • "Get me LAX on the phone, then," Rife says.†   (source)
  • Her hips arched up, pumped against his busy hand, then went lax.†   (source)
  • No one could have followed me to LAX this morning.†   (source)
  • He sank down on a chair in a trembling stupor, his stumpy, lax hands quaking in his lap.†   (source)
  • The time Stephen found the Ex-Lax in my purse.†   (source)
  • A year ago tonight, I was at LAX, waiting for Rosie's plane to land.†   (source)
  • At best, they appeared lax to the point of being informal, if not irrelevant.†   (source)
  • He was surprised when he realized that they were descending toward LAX.†   (source)
  • Rosie called me from New York and asked me to be at LAX with Bill Hannett.†   (source)
  • That's what she was going to tell me when she landed at LAX a year ago tonight.†   (source)
  • Joe drove to LAX while the coast was still waiting for dawn.†   (source)
  • I had been nine weeks in bed, and the muscles had gone lax and the laziness of recovery had set in.†   (source)
  • He could have bought them off the Net, of course — Martha Graham was notoriously lax about scorekeeping, and plagiarism was a cottage industry there — but he'd taken a position on that.†   (source)
  • Instead my body's lax, cozy even.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry I've been so lax about my offerings during the past few millennia, but"—he shrugged—"I haven't needed you.†   (source)
  • But I cannot credit Brom with being so lax with your instruction as to neglect subjects that even the youngest elf or dwarf knows.†   (source)
  • Almondine pushed past him into the room and scented his mother's thin hand, resting lax and upturned on the sheet, and returned to his side.†   (source)
  • It's not exactly lax.†   (source)
  • "He should," said Mr. Weasley, smiling, and leading them through the gates into the campsite, "but Ludo's always been a bit ...well ....lax about security.†   (source)
  • Give me a double dose of Ex-Lax.†   (source)
  • They had stayed so long with Henry the dogs were lax about sticking near him, and now that they were heading out again they would need those skills.†   (source)
  • I then attempted to show that Mr. Kinnear was something of a black sheep, and lax in his morals; which was undoubtedly true.†   (source)
  • Claude knelt and slipped one arm under Epi's brisket and the other under her flanks and she came up in his arms, the whites of her eyes showing and her body lax.†   (source)
  • I want my Ex-Lax.†   (source)
  • Although he'd barely noticed her during her tenure, he decreed that Miss Violence and her lax, musty, rose-tinted ways must be scrubbed away.†   (source)
  • "So," Y.T. says at some point, when they are way past LAX, and she figures it's too late to chicken out, "what's the plan?†   (source)
  • Even though Hiro lives right next to the airport, this is unusuaL They're not supposed to fly right near LAX, it raises evident safety questions.†   (source)
  • Ky is talking to Uncle Enzo over a radio headset, his van, full of electronic gear, is lurking a quarter of a mile away in the shadows next to a LAX cargo warehouse.†   (source)
  • He has called for a major realignment of Mafia forces, and right now, dozens of helicopters and tactical units are hastily replotting their courses and trying to converge on LAX as quickly as they can.†   (source)
  • LAX goes by on her left.†   (source)
  • Co to LAX!†   (source)
  • Griff had feared that the company might have grown lax under Harry Strickland, who had always seemed more concerned with making friends than enforcing discipline; but it would seem his worries had been misplaced.†   (source)
  • The men on the Redwyne galleys had grown lax after so long, however, and they had slipped through the cordon smooth as black satin.†   (source)
  • It's their tension, their hair-trigger excitement and blocked adrenaline that fills the plane, despite the lax bodies of the passengers, their fatigue and resignation.†   (source)
  • I was lax.†   (source)
  • Your attacks are too obvious—you should not rely on brute strength—and you have grown lax in your defense.†   (source)
  • We think they may visit annually, to punish us for becoming lax and to remind us of what we need to become.†   (source)
  • He loved seeing her this way, unwound, limp with pleasuring her senses, too lax to remember to be guilty for indulging herself.†   (source)
  • —WOODY ALLEN, QUOTED IN WOODY ALLEN AND HIS COMEDY, BY ERIC LAX Maggie There were many things I was grateful for, including the fact that I was no longer in high school.†   (source)
  • And even if they reached Shanghai, with its relatively lax airport, how many complications might arise?†   (source)
  • That, or Lord Tyrell's bannermen are lying to us, puffing up the numbers of the foe so we will not think them lax.†   (source)
  • What's Ex-Lax?†   (source)
  • Very lax.†   (source)
  • King Hizdahr's pit fighters were already growing bored and restive with their new duties, and bored men were lax, slow to react.†   (source)
  • His appointment indicated one thing: the government believed that discipline on the island was too lax, and that a strong hand was needed to keep us in line.†   (source)
  • It was simply a matter of getting inside and selecting those arms most easily dismantled so as to cross the relatively lax border at Guangdong with diplomatic passports.†   (source)
  • Ex-Lax.†   (source)
  • In the hour before dawn, they followed him to LAX, always at a distance where they were in no danger of being spotted.†   (source)
  • Immediately on landing at LAX, she will be met by Lisa and the crew that Lisa has assembled—and the series of media eruptions will begin.†   (source)
  • But before she boarded the flight in New York, she called a reporter out in Los Angeles, an old friend of hers, and set up an interview, with trusted witnesses, at the arrival gate at LAX.†   (source)
  • Departing JFK only four minutes behind schedule, the nonstop to LAX sailed high over northern Pennsylvania, Cleveland, the southern curve of Lake Erie, and southern Michigan.†   (source)
  • Maybe we've been too lax.†   (source)
  • They seemed to him so lax, so nearly worldly; they were not like those holy prophets of old who grew thin and naked in the service of the Lord.†   (source)
  • In these he had shown himself a stalwart champion of Christian doctrine at its most precise and purest, equally remote from modern laxity and the obscurantism of the past.†   (source)
  • An Irishman at the service of England, a man accused of laxity and perhaps of treason, how could he fail to seize and be thankful for such a miraculous opportunity: the discovery, capture, maybe even the death of two agents of the German Reich?†   (source)
  • You can call it broad-mindedness if you like, but in my opinion it leads to the worst kind of laxity.†   (source)
  • The motive behind all this laxity isn't plain to me—yet.†   (source)
  • A great piece of laxity will be rectified.†   (source)
  • It is, if you permit the observation, most reprehensible laxity on your part.†   (source)
  • Fred had been rewarding resolution by a little laxity of late.†   (source)
  • Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by laxity of morals amongst all.†   (source)
  • When was sciolism ever dissociated from laxity?†   (source)
  • It was precisely the first night during this series that, weary with watching, I had felt that I might again without laxity lay myself down at my old hour.†   (source)
  • The mother and sister with whom he lived, while not without some moral although no particular religious convictions, were inclined to view life with a great deal of generosity or, as a moralist would have seen it, laxity.†   (source)
  • He trembled as he read and was profoundly stirred by the rigid, but impressive antitheses so evident from the pages of these documents: impeccable deportment on the one side and rascally, disreputable laxness on the other.†   (source)
  • The spectator feels it to be fool's play, when he can distinguish the tedious commonplace of each man's visage, with the perspiration and weary self-importance on it, and the very cut of his pantaloons, and the stiffness or laxity of his shirt-collar, and the dust on the back of his black coat.†   (source)
  • Under the latter great wrong, a few suffered dreadfully—particularly on Sundays, when they had for some time expected the earth to open and swallow the public up; but which desirable event had not yet occurred, in consequence of some reprehensible laxity in the arrangements of the Universe.†   (source)
  • In view of the future or possible, we should live quite laxly and undefined in front, our outlines dim and misty on that side; as our shadows reveal an insensible perspiration toward the sun.†   (source)
  • Some wondered as to the nature of the exhibition; others sneered; but a far greater part, recollecting the essays of Richard in that way, and mindful of the liberality, or rather laxity, of Marmaduke's notions on the subject of sectarianism, thought it most prudent to be silent.†   (source)
  • He disliked having anything to do with the domestic serfs—the "drones" as he called them—and everyone said he spoiled them by his laxity.†   (source)
  • For though hers had been rather the laxity of inadvertence than of intention, that episode, if known, was not the less likely to operate fatally between herself and her husband.†   (source)
  • So of her curled fronts: Mrs. Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest brown curls in her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness; but to look out on the week-day world from under a crisp and glossy front would be to introduce a most dreamlike and unpleasant confusion between the sacred and the secular.†   (source)
  • The same nations have been chaste or dissolute at different periods of their history; the strictness or the laxity of their morals depended therefore on some variable cause, not only on the natural qualities of their country, which were invariable.†   (source)
  • Nor will it be contested that at the present day the remnants of that same aristocracy exhibit a certain severity of morals; whilst laxity of morals appears to have spread amongst the middle and lower ranks.†   (source)
  • For in that part of the country, before reform had done its notable part in developing the political consciousness, there was a clearer distinction of ranks and a dimmer distinction of parties; so that Mr. Brooke's miscellaneous invitations seemed to belong to that general laxity which came from his inordinate travel and habit of taking too much in the form of ideas.†   (source)
  • Another was, that in houses where he got friendly, he was given to stretch himself at full length on the rug while he talked, and was apt to be discovered in this attitude by occasional callers for whom such an irregularity was likely to confirm the notions of his dangerously mixed blood and general laxity.†   (source)
  • Public opinion in the United States very gently represses that love of wealth which promotes the commercial greatness and the prosperity of the nation, and it especially condemns that laxity of morals which diverts the human mind from the pursuit of well-being, and disturbs the internal order of domestic life which is so necessary to success in business.†   (source)
  • They are lax in religious observance, and some of them live in open concubinage.†   (source)
  • He feels a proud proprietor's affection for them, and is tolerantly lax in his discipline.†   (source)
  • They watched his lax hands to see the fists form.†   (source)
  • He looked over the heads of the passengers pretending to study an Ex-Lax advertisement.†   (source)
  • Then he begins to cry, sitting huge and lax in the sagging chair.†   (source)
  • Rhett sat still, the reins lax in his hands, looking after them, a curious moody look on his swarthy face.†   (source)
  • But he made no sound, lying as still and as lax as while he had been asleep, riding high in the invisible arms, moving, descending slowly toward the side door which gave onto the playground.†   (source)
  • As I say, I dismissed the question, and dismissed the answer I had tried to give to it, and simply held the lax hand between my own, and listened to the heavy breathing from the sunken face, and thought how in the scream which had snatched me from sleep that afternoon there had been the bright, beautiful, silver purity of feeling.†   (source)
  • So that now the lawyer wouldn't even need to say You will pay for this because Bon would be saying that for him, who would stand there with the lax pistol, thinking But only with knives or pistols or rapiers.†   (source)
  • The present generation was shamelessly lax—in their carriage, and in every other way.... Enveloped in an aura of righteousness and unyielding principles, Miss Brent sat in her crowded third-class carriage and triumphed over its discomfort and its heat.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, Rose she said, like that again, and I stopped in running's midstride again though my body, blind unsentient barrow of deluded clay and breath, still advanced And bow I saw that what she held in that lax and negligent hand was the photograph, the picture of herself in its metal case which she had given him, held casual and forgotten against her flank as any interrupted pastime book.†   (source)
  • "We feel, however," he said in his public statement, "that it is most reprehensible that those responsible for this agreement should have been so lax in their protection of the public interest as to accept the figures of this contract by which the state has sold for a song one of her richest assets.†   (source)
  • However lax he might be about early rising and the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering.†   (source)
  • The Doc's voice was thickening; he was sunk in his chair, blurry of eye and lax of mouth.†   (source)
  • Action strengthened his lax muscles and kept him from those motionless, senseless hours of brooding.†   (source)
  • His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.†   (source)
  • Gottlieb was sunk in a worn chair, his thin hand lax on the arm.†   (source)
  • In my opinion Farebrother is too lax for a clergyman.†   (source)
  • If any one imagines that this law is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.†   (source)
  • In the enforcement of his rules, he was at times rigid, and at times lax.†   (source)
  • "At the Tuileries," he repeated, seeing the eyes of the company expectantly turned on him, "the standard was excessively lax in some respects; and if you'd asked where Morny's money came from—!†   (source)
  • A desolating pity began to fall like dew upon his easily embittered heart for this faithful serving-man of the knightly Loyola, for this half-brother of the clergy, more venal than they in speech, more steadfast of soul than they, one whom he would never call his ghostly father; and he thought how this man and his companions had earned the name of worldlings at the hands not of the unworldly only but of the worldly also for having pleaded, during all their history, at the bar of God's justice for the souls of the lax and the lukewarm and the prudent.†   (source)
  • Shefford recalled the smooth, brown face, the dark eyes, the weak chin, the mild expression, and the soft, lax figure of the missionary.†   (source)
  • That may have been partly because they regarded Europe as a sink of iniquity, where strange laxities prevailed.†   (source)
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