Laxness has devoted less attention to the writing of plays and poetry than novels and short stories.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavík.
Gunnar Gunnarsson wrote The Church on the Mountain, and Laxness was becoming known.
All which laxness and remissness is for a lamentation, and ought to be lamented and mourned over by the people of God.
Because of the relative laxness of Kuomintang organization, the work of this Committee is far less than one might expect.
The political indecision andlaxness of China in general has kept the group from becoming either a Hitlerjugend or a frankly democratic C.
There was pointed out the usual laxness on the part of the students to read a sentence with care and understanding, also the inability to hold to a question and do only what the question calls for.
The morals of the Indians of Puget Sound are as good as could reasonably be expected when we take into consideration our ignorant, unwholesome legislation and the fact that, as a race, laxness in this respect has been only too common.
The laxness of the marriage relation worked special hardship on the women and children in so many cases deserted by the head of the family.
Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.
It need hardly be said that in my long term of service with the Honourable George, beginning almost from the time my mother nursed him, I have endeavoured to keep him up to his class, combating a certain laxness that has hampered him.
This later laxness made me wonder if, after all, she would feel bound to pay his lordship the respect he was wont to command from her class.
The Russian Foundling Asylum in St. Petersburg found it necessary to make its conditions more strict than they were in the beginning as laxness tended to encourage sexual vice.
With the laxness of the family life, the freedom of divorce, and the inflow of wealth and extravagance, the purity and dignity of the Roman matron declined, as had before declined the manhood and the strength of her father and her husband.
This worship caused a notorious laxness of view in regard to the relations between the sexes.
He insists upon purity of soul and outward life as opposed to the laxness of the idolaters.
My mortification at Sylvia's laxness was so keen that I should have forborne returning to the arbor had I not felt assured that she must have escaped to the house through modesty and sheer shame.
Yet she did not escape this charge of being both hard and serious upon the part of men and women who were used to the laxness of small misdemeanors, and felt ill at ease before the terrifying truth that she was a lady.
No man had ever accused him of laxness in public office, civil or military; on the contrary, his superiors commonly considered themselves fortunate if they could induce or compel him to keep his energies within reasonable bounds.
But by that date the State wanted unbroken jurisdiction over all of the territory within her limits, and her complaints of laxness on the part of the Federal Government in bringing this about became no less frequent than vigorous.
There can be nolaxness in moral effort if we remember the judgment seat of Christ.
This circumstance seems to indicate that the Nicolaitans had excused their moral laxness by an appeal to special revelations.
When small isolated villages were the dominant form of American settlement, the laxness of one group did not vitally affect the welfare of other groups.
The effect of this laxness has been to encourage the dissolution of the home for trivial and improper causes.
