Laxness

[ lahks-nes ]

noun

1. Hall·dór Kil·jan [hahl, -doh, r, , kil, -yahn], 1902–98, Icelandic writer: Nobel Prize 1955.

Laxness

/ ˈlaxsnɛs /

noun

1. LaxnessHalldór (Kiljan)19021998MIcelandicWRITING: novelist Halldór ( Kiljan ) (haldəʊr). 1902–98, Icelandic novelist, noted for his treatment of rural working life in Iceland. His works include Salka Valka (1932) and Independent People (1935). Nobel prize for literature 1955

Example Sentences

It was Independent People, by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, that put modern Icelandic literature on the global map.

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The authorities are expressing shock over the laxness of the security.

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Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.

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Since coming to the Meiggs Plantation there had been a certain amount of laxness in regard to what the children did.

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Indeed, their laxness was also much canvassed with us, and the more staid of the visitors openly enough expressed their censure.

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The woman chose this time to receive her lover in her house and to make a shameless public parade of her moral laxness.

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Her officers were men of spirit, but there seems to have been a fatal laxness in getting her ready for sea.

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