But people easily grow tolerant to them, and they can be addictive.

In this regard it would be fair to claim that we have grown tolerant and, with some reservations, more enlightened.

I had grown more tolerant of eager young ensigns in recent years.

Actually, even our warrior-men have grown surprisingly tolerant of such men from the reversal planets.

What they saw, perhaps, were voters who had grown more cynical about politicians yet less tolerant of those linked to wrongdoing.

His eyes had grown a little more tolerant of sunshine.

Yet opinion polls have shown Mexicans growing less tolerant of traditional corruption.

The nation appears to have grown more conservative and less tolerant during the last eight years.

As the royal scandals revealed, we've grown much more tolerant of adultery, at least when it comes to women.

But even in this affluent coastal city long dominated by conservative politics and military families, people are growing more tolerant.