| The biotech industry has grown up in an era of almost complete permissiveness. |
| He's just starting his adulthood in a culture predominated by permissiveness and promiscuity. |
| Perhaps they give him the same sense of permissiveness that allowed them to find their unique artistic voices nearly 40 years ago. |
| 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. |
| Over the course of an hour, he made several stabs at the city's permissiveness. |
