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Laxness
Laxness meaning
The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
Synonyms of Laxness
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Health privacy laws and bureaucratic laxness prevents background checks for firearms buyers from reporting mental illness.
She launched our friendship with “Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness, and has continued to give me my favorite book of nearly every year since.
And a social passion underlies everything Halldór Laxness has written.
Following his confirmation, he adopted the surname Laxness after the homestead on which he was raised and added the name Kiljan (the Icelandic name of Irish martyr Saint Killian ).
Hallberg, p.125 Laxness also traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote approvingly of the Soviet system and culture.
Later years In the 1960s Laxness was very active in the Icelandic theatre, writing and producing plays, The Pigeon Banquet (Dúfnaveislan, 1966) was the most successful.
Laxness was awarded the Sonning Prize in 1969.