How To Use Cavil In A Sentence

Cavil, Doral and another Simon how long have you got buddy? find the dead doctor Simon and once again Cavil shows himself to be a pathetic military planner, he admits he "miscalculated" Boomer's actions. VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW
My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
If a player of Beardsley's ability was available now, one whose intelligence brought the best out of so many partners while scoring more than 200 goals himself, there would be little cavilling at a fee of more than £20m. Darren Bent is the latest in a long line of lone wolves | Rob Bagchi
* Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2

EDITOR: The watchdog being the Audit Commission, normally known for cavilling about spending Archive 2009-08-01
It's a fantastic achievement - and one in the eye for those who have carped and cavilled about the underperformance of Great Britain's competitors in Athens.
Ancona is especially fed up with critics who cavil that ‘if you're doing impressions, you're not acting’.
The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
It is a little late for them to cavil about the details having delayed 11 years on delivering it.
But while some may cavil at this, others may think it gives The Making Of Scotland character and a certain naive charm.
While the issue of legal responsibility is still to be determined a to where the legal responsibility lies between the rig operator or BP, BP is not caviling and says it is prepared to do whatever it takes to stop the underwater gusher and clean up the spill. Raymond J. Learsy: A Tale of Two Companies -- Goldman Sachs and BP
Incidentally, they play bridge against one another now, in the maximum-security wing of Vacaville State Correctional Facility. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
The most devoted supporter of the right to bear arms might still cavil at the thought of arms caches under the beds of active enemies.
Although Chief Constables cavil occasionally they treat circulars as commands.
They are caviling that inspectors are being recruited from too many countries including Asians and Africans.
Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land.
No one cavilled with her Honour's rejection of the evidence of the bus driver.
My only cavil is the short playing time of this CD.
BMW's Mini brand has managed to spin off iterations of the Mini Cooper that are bigger and offer more doors see my recent caviling about the Countryman but the company runs the risk of exhausting its small-car cred. In Geneva, Guessing at a Gas-Guzzling Future
These cavils aside, most of the essays are very good indeed.
I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. Emma
But the more and holier ceremonies the league is knit up with, the sooner it is broken by some cavillation found in the words, which many times of purpose be so craftily put in and placed, that the bands can never be so sure nor so strong, but they will find some hole open to creep out at, and to break both league and truth. The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters
You could say the rider was raised in a household of trust, which makes him seem caviler in his every day life. BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!
The only cavil is that some of the extracts are on the miserly side and, from the bibliography, it is clear that the complete versions are unlikely to be available in Britain.
I'm not suggesting that research should not proceed, but rather cavilling at the sometimes thoughtless way it has been presented to the public.
But then, cavilling is contemptible, as all controversialists declare! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
Ted Swiecki is a plant scientist in California with the Phytosphere Research company and the Vacaville Tree Foundation.
Something he would find fault with, but knows not well what; and therefore turmoils himself to give countenance unto a putid cavil. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
The one cavil I have about the book is that it is written as a diary.
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Despite all such cavils, this is a work of uncommon gracefulness that repays repeated reading and viewing.
To those, yes, American democrats who quibble, cavil, and lose themselves in conjecture over the risks to which the judge who allows a criminal to live subjects honest people, we countered with Maïmonides's axiom: "It is more satisfying to acquit thousands of the guilty than to execute one sole innocent man. Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
The amazing adventures of caviler and clay (pulizer prize winner) the broom of the system fight club life of pi are the last non-sci fi book I have read Why Do You Read/Watch Science Fiction?
The opening poem, for example, Durer, Innsbruck, 1495, despite an occasional lapse which criticism might cavil at, is a very fine poem which would do credit to any anthology and to most poets.
These cavils aside, most of the essays are very good indeed.
Grammar concerning the kinds of words, their derivations, deflexions, and syntax; specially enriching the same with the helps of several languages, with their differing proprieties of words, phrases, and tropes; they might have found out more and better footsteps of common reason, help of disputation, and advantages of cavillation, than many of these which they have propounded. Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.
My only cavil is that Rachel Blues's design has none of the ‘dinginess ‘specified in the stage directions.’
Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
His only cavils are the notoriously short battery life of PDA-phone combination devices, and the screen's relative dimness in bright sunlight - but in all other light conditions, he says, the screen is crisp and readable.
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into The Advancement of Learning
We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
Though counts may cavil and marquises moan, the Spanish parliament, backed by the Spanish electorate, has now put a stop to this kind of discrimination – a policy powerfully endorsed by the king though succession in the monarchy remains, for the moment, exempt from reform. Primogeniture: The second sex | Editorial
Although his composition was flawless, the teacher was always cavilling at his handwriting.
It's mean to cavil over the shortcomings of a product that's given away for free but I find the installation documentation dense and obscure, filled with traps for the unwary.
The caviling over Awlaki's death began almost the moment the news was announced yesterday. Killing Awlaki
Have these cavillers an intellect superior to Newton's own?
Such small cavils apart, Devine's scheme is just what schools need, to substitute coherent teaching for the present pick-'n'-mix.
It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
Porphyry or some other caviller, [275] may object, that this is fabulous, because the reason of it does not appear; or because it is unusual; or because it is repugnant to the common order of nature. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
Instead of cavilling, other organisations should follow UNESCO's approach. UNESCO Slammed For 'Dictator' Science Prize
But who should do thus, I confess, should requite the objections made against poets, with like cavillation against philosophers; as likewise one should do, that should bid one read English literary criticism
Contrast that to Bush, who is so cavilier about the lives of others that he actually contemplated sending American pilots up in disguised planes to try and trick Saddam into shooting them down so he could start his war. Think Progress » VIDEO: 8th General Calls For Rumsfeld’s Resignation
Amidst such cavillation she donned the next day her best petticoat and ribbons to his to the First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life
My only cavil is that I would have liked to see her in a part which gave her greater scope to display her abilities, rather than in this outdated and outmoded piece.
But is it too much to ask its friends for support—this time, for once, without cavil or reservation? Israel's Predicament
Frank Hadden has certainly had his detractors down the years, but even his most stringent caviller would have to admit that this is a man who has served his time.
Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod. Anatomy of Melancholy
The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
Grease, in its barmiest days near projuced a more hefty cavileer. Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers
I could cavil at little details, but why should I?
He calls him "wicked servant," because he cavilled against his Lord; and "slothful," because he would not double his talent; condemning his pride in the one, and his idleness in the other. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
You sometimes have to force yourself to be nitpicking, faultfinding, caviling, hypercritical. The Fiddler in the Subway
Why that should be so was a mystery, but it was pointless to cavil. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Since he is prepared to do this, there is nothing that he cannot do: his ranks of craven, sycophantic backbenchers will not cavil at anything he says.
Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him. Anatomy of Melancholy
But for all my cavilling, he stood up for free trade, free markets and free societies. Obama
I have proof enough to carry conviction to any honest breast – to satisfy any caviller – except a court of justice. The Hidden Hand
But these are minor cavils compared to my problems with what the hypothesis seeks to do with these assumptions.
Why on earth sit there cavilling when you could be doing something positive? Why can't the Newspaper Publishers Association launch its own app aggregator?
We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
These cavils aside, it deserves to be seen as the cast, on the whole, make the evening a worthwhile, experience and it is not their fault that the authors have not provided them with better material.
Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Consequently I do not hesitate to say that the Reformation, in rejecting contrition, cavilling over the word metanoia, attributing to faith alone the virtue of justification, deconsecrating repentance in short, took a step backward and utterly failed to recognize the law of progress. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
God, Thomas, Abp. of Canterbury, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation devised by Stephen Gardener, "&c. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
These minor cavils notwithstanding, Linder deserves considerable credit for resurrecting this important work and rendering it into such lucid, vigorous English.
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Have these cavillers an intellect superior to Newton's own?
Will the caviller still contend with the Almighty? The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
But these are minor cavils in the face of the impressive achievements of women artists from all over the world, working in every medium and in a multiplicity of styles and expressive contexts.
[6645] Thus they mutter and object (see the rest of their arguments in Marcennus in Genesin, and in Campanella, amply confuted), with many such vain cavils, well known, not worthy the recapitulation or answering: whatsoever they pretend, they are interim of little or no religion. Anatomy of Melancholy
Among the remains of the newer Stone Age, on the other hand, comparatively abundant keramic specimens have been unearthed, without doubt or cavil, from the long barrows -- the burial-places of the early Mongoloid race, now represented by the Finns and Lapps, which occupied the whole of Western Europe before the advent of the Aryan vanguard. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Why that should be so was a mystery, but it was pointless to cavil. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Behold, says the caviller, there is no good Indian until he dies, and even his friends complain that the young men will "go back" to gambling games and horse races. The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896
However, these cavils aside, this is a very charming and delightful production and one which, as I have indicated, goes a long way to obliterate the memories of the past.
However much critics may cavil, audiences seem happy.
So that nothing can be more superficial than this paradox of the sceptics; and it were well, if, in the abstruser studies of logic and metaphysics, we could as easily obviate the cavils of that sect, as in the practical and more intelligible sciences of politics and morals. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
My only gripe, and who am I to cavil at Shakespeare, is that Pacino and Irons do such a good job that the jiggery pokery at the end about rings and sworn faithfulness seems an irritant.
Though there may have been some in the past who cavilled at Britain, and though probably the period when the United States withdrew from Britain might have produced in some minds the belief that the English people had lost their power of colonizing, I believe that today Canada, standing side by side with the United States as one of a large number of related dependencies, is a proof that Britain has not lost her power for colonizing; that there is still the adaptable spirit in Britain, and that she is still able to weld into one, divergent nationalities. Canada as a Field for the Solution of Imperial Problems
But these are cavils: this is one of the great books of art-historical thought.
My only cavil, and this is one I level against many restaurants, is that there is a separate charge for bread which, as you are given no option to refuse it, becomes a cover charge by another name.
More than a few tend to be (Ahem) somewhat caviler about the entire issue. Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation
It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
The charges were based on sermons spread over two or three years, a circumstance which of itself suggests that the prosecution had been got up for ulterior government purposes; that it was a 'forged cavillation,' as Bruce called it in his pulpit in Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
To those, yes, American democrats who quibble, cavil, and lose themselves in conjecture over the risks to which the judge who allows a criminal to live subjects honest people, we countered with Maïmonides's axiom: "It is more satisfying to acquit thousands of the guilty than to execute one sole innocent man. Bernard-Henri Lévy: And to Think That We Still Have to Argue Against the Death Penalty
Frank Hadden has certainly had his detractors down the years, but even his most stringent caviller would have to admit that this is a man who has served his time.
However, my purpose here is not to cavil, nor to review the exhibition as a whole.
Why that should be so was a mystery, but it was pointless to cavil. ALL ABOUT LOVE
I have only a cavil with George Amos's response Letters , Sept. 3, which quotes Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech. Mr. Faulkner's Tradition Continues
This is part of the child/parent relationship and in the ideal family, the children won't cavil at this.
To make caviler statements about whether something is possible or not with absolutely no knowledge of the subject is simply mind boggling. Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch
Forgive the cavil, but I can't help feeling that schools facing the most savage cuts in several generations as a direct result of the actions of banks such as Lloyds would have preferred to retain a music department, say, than the chance to share in the magic of the Lloyds story. The London 2012 Olympic torch relay is following a path that inflames | Marina Hyde
So, your Honour, I think that is about all I need to say about cavilling or challenging the judgment of Justice Kirby.
I could put up with her constant caviling about which depreciation schedule to use for business equipment if she would just stay out of my personal life! Fred Nietzsche, C.P.A.
We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
Cavils and quibbles aside, this is a tome to own.
Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.
Having said that, however - and recommending that you read other reviewers' previous raves to get a fuller idea of the film - I have some minor cavils to share.
In its place is a relentlessly restrained duet on which Tricky shadows the breathy lead vocal by new collaborator Constanza Francavilla in a voice that barely rises above a whisper.
They seem to have a pretty caviler attitude towards safety. Man-Made Calamity to Hit LA, Gulf Coast | RedState
And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then The Advancement of Learning
The association of Brother Cavil's name with the word 'cavil' seems almost irresistible. Links and Notes
President Bush appears to have no patience for the Fourth Amendment and a caviler of Americans 'rights and liberties. National Security and Civil Rights
Provoked and wearied, Cecilia resolved no longer to depend upon any body but herself for the management of her own affairs, and therefore, to conclude the business without any possibility of further cavilling, she wrote the following note to Sir Robert herself. Cecilia
_broyer, "to grind_;" others from _brocader, to cavil or riggle_; others deduce broker from a trader _broken_, and that from the Saxon _broc_, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828
Smiley's attempt to root the novel in a specific political climate seems an unnecessary distraction, and a few characters are too broadly typed, but these are minor cavils.
The boundless approval of the grandchildren stilled any adult cavils about taste and decency.
So much is here that it would be absurd to cavil about exclusions; and considering the challenge Ferriter has set himself, the odd chronological infelicity can be easily accommodated.
Ever since I was at a metro stop and saw a poster of Wesley Snipes aiming his gun in The Art of War at the head of a woman waiting for a bus, I've been waiting for America's caviler attitude about guns to reach little children. Tom Gregory: G-Force: Disney's Loveable Rodent Gets an AK-47
Sometimes cavilling criticism must fall silent and this is one such occasion," says Charles Spencer, which must have hurt. What to say about ... All My Sons
Some additional cavils are worth mentioning, but they don't detract from what this fine work has to offer.
But what caused me to fret most of all was the President's evident caviler flaunting of unconventional attire. Michael Henry Adams: Changing Fashion, Obama Style
Given the existing imbalances in the US economy, one would have thought that the foreign exchange markets would have cavilled at the implications of this document.
Again, you guys cavilierly “disprove” every single damn Nature or Science paper, mirabile dictu! Enron Verdict « Climate Audit
But these are cavils and, at root, only the difference between fact and a greater, truth-telling fiction.
No wonder the reviewers who have cavilled most have been poets—they don't know where they are with him. The Times Literary Supplement
Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod. Anatomy of Melancholy
Mr Greendale's wife, Kathryn, said her husband had cooked for a family barbecue last Friday, and had later gone to sleep on a rug at the back of the house in Cavill Place.
He cavilled in part like the priest Sabellius, who had cavilled like the Phrygian Praxeas, who was a great caviller. A Philosophical Dictionary
It's a fantastic achievement - and one in the eye for those who have carped and cavilled about the underperformance of Great Britain's competitors in Athens.
Once again the righties warn the lefties about their caviler sic attitude because the same thing can happen to them. When bottom-feeders attack
This cavil aside, the exhibition is a well-paced and absorbing study of the most influential exponent of an under-rated decorative art form.
But I will urge these cavilling and contumelious arguments no farther, lest some physician should mistake me, and deny me physic when I am sick: for my part, I am well persuaded of physic: I can distinguish the abuse from the use, in this and many other arts and sciences: Anatomy of Melancholy
One can cavil that Mr. Hamner relies too much on instances of big-army conventional warfare to argue this assertion. Where They Got Their Grit
Although his composition was flawless, the teacher was always cavilling at his handwriting.
Why that should be so was a mystery, but it was pointless to cavil. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
Unlike Albany, where the insiders rule without cavil, California voters have imposed a two-thirds vote requirement for the legislature to raise taxes. The Two Left Coasts
Double Standard" -- the name itself a critics 'bull's-eye -- doesn't show Hopper to best advantage, falling short of a presentation that would offset the caviling. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Star Qualities
In Senecaville, Ohio, there was an abandoned old house on a hill called Mount Nebo by the locals. Babes with a Beatitude
But although I sympathise with almost all of what Todorov says, and applaud his achievement in saying it, I have a minor cavil about the way he gets his argument going.
[207] Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Messiae trahentes vetustum regni excidium. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
I heartily wish that the same tenderness of conscience in all things may be seen, which if not, it will hardly be called a scruple of tenderness, but a cavil of malignity. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land and have all these wonderful adventures.
For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. Emma
The results of x-ray microanalysis allowed us to identify the fibers as the tremolite-actinolite fibrous amphibole found in the quarries and in the building material of Biancavilla.
And indeed, if young voters keep caviling about the government they abhor without taking part in political process to help reshape it (after all we are a country of over three hundred million individuals, change will not come as fast or grand as they would prefer), then yes, we may have trains running on time soon, and little else. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Indifference of Younger Voters and Our Imperiled Democracy
The only minor cavil I have with it is that it did not give feel of cramped space and claustrophobia inherent in the real thing, which I have seen and experienced.
Purists may cavil at the liberties taken with scientific objectivity, but as a memoirist, he is a mensch, a prince among primates.
And if they cavil at it, as MPs have cavilled and continue to cavil at the detection of their felonies, they may yet discover what the whoosh of the guillotine blade sounds like. Archive 2009-08-30

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