How To Use Quibble In A Sentence

Ian Hecht at Marturia. net fires one of the first Terra Insegura reviews into the the blogosphere, and though he has some quibbles (not to be confused with tribbles – although both can multiply rapidly on occasion, tribbles are furrier), in general, he likes it. LeaderPost preview of Follies, avec moi
It seems churlish to quibble over the fact that there is no lamb.
Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
These are minor quibbles, however, and the book overall is well-written, highly readable, and very enjoyable and informative.
Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting.

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You could quibble about some of the singing. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, these are minor quibbles with a book that provides such a wealth of content.
All quibbles about the merits of that series aside, as an English major, it makes me happy when an author of prose fiction becomes stinking bloody rich.
The machine comes with a three-year no quibble guarantee.
But they are minor quibbles in what is an immersive package. The Sun
The only quibbles are the lack of a simple way to unlock the doors from inside, and an interior light which is too bright for the driver's comfort.
While my view of the moral landscape can be classed as "consequentialist," this term comes with fair amount of philosophical baggage, and there are many traditional quibbles with consequentialism that do not apply to my account of morality. Sam Harris: Toward a Science of Morality
Criticism was in repute and flourished; commentaries, notes, and quibbles, abounded on the glorious works of genius that had been written aforetime. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Other quibbles may right themselves during the run. Times, Sunday Times
You may trot around with a silver bunch of grapes on your lapel, peddling intoxicants to expense-account tosspots and huff when I quibble at the mark-up but I have just published the novelistic fruit of 35 years of miserable introversion.
The current debate has sometimes gone beyond terminological quibbles.
But these surely amount to minor quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
She always quibbles about household affairs with her mother.
I can't work out if this is for cissies or not 4 -- all done, but I suspect purists might have a minor quibble with 26. Cryptic crossword No 25,236
Enough foot-dragging and quibbles about ‘historic orthodoxy’.
But these are mere quibbles next to the 6 million salary. Times, Sunday Times
Minor quibbles aside, however, it was hard to be critical.
With all the grace on offer, you quibble at the absence of the word "fricative"? Languagehat.com: THE AMBIENCE OF WORDS.
At the end of the round, he somehow he got hold of our answer sheet and quibbled Every.
Shakespeare, in Johnson's phrase, lost the world for a quibble and was content to lose it, so does Mr. Meredith discrown himself of the sovereignty of contemporary romance to put on the cap and bells of the professional wit. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation
Basically it was a fine performance I have only minor quibbles to make about her technique.
A quibble about your WiR framing: I think that the two functional definitions of WiR are where a female character is killed and/or depowered, thereby taking her out of the power fantasy sandbox for writers to play with and readers to enjoy, and/or as you pointed out, harming a female to get a reaction from a male _character_. Question About New Avengers #35 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
If you owe money to others , you have to pay. Don't quibble!
But this is a minor quibble about a brilliant book. Times, Sunday Times
So I say hats off "chapeau" to you lot to A for that one - completely undeserving of any quibble. Cryptic crossword No 25,245
Criticism of the footnote is not a quibble about a minor incidental proposition.
They continued to quibble about the date of departure when I came in.
Yet it is a small quibble with what is another tense trip through the badlands of human nature. Times, Sunday Times
I have one quibble, but that's with the engineering, where the balance of the cello sonata's first movement allows the piano to dampen the cello often to mere buzzing.
But they are minor quibbles in what is an immersive package. The Sun
Revisionists would say that the romanticism of the chroniclers' reverie for that era was coloured by nostalgia for the generation lost in the first world war that choked their critical senses but the glory of Cardus's prose outweighs almost all quibbles. VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age
The wit of the performance was made to consist in quibble and equivoke, and in the misuse of language, after the fashion, but without the refinement, of Mrs. Partington. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
An increasingly tight schedule meant that there was no room for quibbles about the job description.
Other quibbles may right themselves during the run. Times, Sunday Times
She prayed that the fitting would be brief; she was in no mood to quibble over laces and fabrics with some silly woman.
And you can quibble about his arithmetic all you like. The Sun
But this is a small quibble about a book of great ambition and power. Times, Sunday Times
But these surely amount to minor quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
But these are mere quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
He will have made enemies of all his former managers, but few quibbled with Thompson's logic when he parted company with each of them.
My only quibble with this fine book is with the way in which it which it casually ascribes ultimate influence on the shaping of genres to the power of commerce and its supposedly attendant sensibilities.
Some might quibble at a reliance on interviews with journalists as an unchecked source. Times, Sunday Times
The amount of money being quibbled over is not nearly enough to launch a serious effort to save our Aboriginal languages.
You normally get a free one-year no quibble guarantee from the manufacturer of electrical goods anyway, so a one-year free warranty might not be quite such a steal.
But these are minor quibbles and they miss the point entirely. Times, Sunday Times
Best Growth: On Bones' Season 7 premiere, new couple and expectant parents Booth and Brennan tire of splitting time between their respective homes, but they quibble over where they will ultimately cohabitate. Top Moments: Revenge's Double Trouble and Conan's Reformed Bear... Or Not
She always quibbles about household affairs with her mother.
And you can quibble about his arithmetic all you like. The Sun
A quibble arose concerning the phrase break out.
I have a few quibbles with it, but it's generally a very informative and entertaining piece.
This is a small quibble, though. Times, Sunday Times
When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don't quibble over the appetizers.
It is a minor quibble, which I only suggest because of the disc's focus on the film as a showcase for Wong and her place in cinema.
One minor quibble, if I may be so bold as to noodge the Master Rhetorician: It isn't liberals who give the word "liberal" a bad name. Clinton Camp: "Karl Rove Is Writing Senator Obama's Talking Points"
Not to quibble, but perhaps it would be better to say that retribution as the traditional justification for capital punishment has been "sidestepped" or rendered in effect irrelevant, rather than that it has been rejected. Capital Punishment Vs. Abortion
But this is a small quibble, if quibble at all. Times, Sunday Times
Sorry to quibble here, but while you're right that "adequate space" is the issue -- i.e., space must be adequate to allow for sufficient reaction time -- the adequacy is a function of your speed, not your speed relative to the other driver. Report: Corzine's State Trooper Driver Was Speeding
When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don't quibble over the appetizers.
You can quibble about the balance between kawanatanga and te tino rangitiratanga, but something was very definitely being given up.
This may seem like mere quibbles, but there is something important in the way he misstates these positions.
You may quibble that I wasn't strictly a tourist. Times, Sunday Times
Other than the political quibbles, London critics were mostly rapturous about this modern-dress revival.
This might seem a quibble but it is very important. The Times Literary Supplement
Messrs. Quibble and Quirk, attorneys-at-law, beg to offer their professional services at the following fixed and equitable rate, -- they, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
Apparently I have touched a sore spot, since Hilsman, instead of dealing with the substance of my criticism, quibbles over allegedly incomplete quotations, how many weeks constitute a "shortly after," and what kind of teletype machine links Washington to Moscow. An Exchange on the Missile Crisis
In a book of such ambition, there will be much with which to quibble.
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
And yet fashion quibbles aside, many of us are still getting it badly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes. Howard Jacobson speaks his mind
But such minor quibbles aside, the book is rich, scholastically challenging, and another milestone in the journey towards clarity in our understanding of the sense-making processes and products of ourselves and others.
Apart from the anchor locker's lack of a hawsehole and the too-low railings, we couldn't find much to quibble about.
Prices are 511 and 499 respectively and both have no-quibble, money-back warranties. Times, Sunday Times
One quibble would be with the geography of these Games, the ice sports in metropolitan Vancouver, the snow sports 21/2 hours away in Whistler. Games' slow start forgotten as triumph, glory take over
Although I have quibbles about them, the Manga Guides remain entertaining supplementary reading for tough subjects. The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology » Manga Worth Reading
But these are small quibbles, and the greater value of this book is that it has its readers asking such questions in the first place.
By the way, yesterday streetwear enthusiast and fixed-gear freestyle impresario Prolly quibbled over my use of the word "wheelie," saying that it only applies when you pedal and that the proper term is "manual. Duck and Cover: The Art of Appropriation
Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism.
It gets kind of clumsy when the path leads down the screen and you have the press the up key but that's a relatively minor quibble.
These are minor quibbles.
Well, I suppose one can quibble about the definition of "flocking. Palin got this one right: More Jews going to Israel
However, these are minor quibbles when set against the powerful argument supported throughout the book.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
Thus, even Dryden's repeated disclamation of puns, points, and quibbles, and all the repentance of his more sober hours, was unable, so soon as he began to translate Ovid, to prevent his sliding back into the practice of that false wit with which his earlier productions are imbued. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
But that's a minor quibble with what's a smooth-running app with superb music-discovery features. Get Unlimited Music on Your iPhone
Football's cheerleaders will say that these are quibbles set against the continued growth of the game. Times, Sunday Times
Quibbles about performance and lighting aside, “Roma Sub Rosa’s” peek into the final moments of Tiberius is not an entirely unworthy way to spend twenty-eight minutes. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Let the wingnuts quibble over the minutae of whether or not white phosphorous is a chemical weapon (clearly it is) …. lets keep our eyes on the bigger picture. Think Progress » The Truth About ThinkProgressâ€™ White Phosphorus Coverage
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
The only quibble I have with the grammar of that prose is the use of a hyphen followed by a semi-colon in the final sentence.
Despite these quibbles, I recommend this book as a widely accessible and clearly written summary of the main causes of the Great Depression and its legacy for economic policy.
Still, he did have quibbles: "Is the show overcrammed and underfocused? Variety.com
We are way, way past the point of quibbles over fine points of law and well into the regime where anybody can see the emperor is walking around in his undies. The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics
Yet it is a small quibble with what is another tense trip through the badlands of human nature. Times, Sunday Times
Pub purists might quibble with the cafe-bar furniture and the tinplate paintings of Thai landscapes, but, in all other respects, the Vine Thai fulfils its brief. Norwich's 10 best budget eats
A royalist divine also, during the Protectorate, did not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which he was accustomed to deliver: -- "O Lord, who hast put a sword into the hand of thy servant, Oliver, _put it into his heart_ ALSO -- to do according to thy word. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
I have a few quibbles with it but will withhold carping until all three chapters have appeared.
The only way to make sure both the poor and rich have enough, is not to quibble over how to divide the pie, but to * bake more pie*. Latest Articles
If there's a quibble, it's that the seamlessness sometimes glosses over the rougher edges of the music. Times, Sunday Times
Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
But this is a minor quibble about a brilliant book. Times, Sunday Times
Some might quibble at a reliance on interviews with journalists as an unchecked source. Times, Sunday Times
These criticisms are not quibbles over details, for these texts are among the Arthurian documents cited and used as sources for the arguments put forward.
Columbine was emblematical of forsaken lovers.] [Footnote IV. 27: _There's rue for you; and here's some for me: -- we may call it herb of grace o 'Sundays: _] Probably a quibble is meant here, as _rue_ anciently signified the same as Hamlet
My only quibble is that some comments - criticisms and praise - remain unchanged year to year.
I would quibble, however, with the old canard that the Romans never invented anything - it is always those much cleverer Greeks who got there first.
A gaggle of quibblers complain that chickens do fly, albeit short distances.
Even so, with such a wealth of experience and talent, to quibble over a little forgotten punctuation is insupportable!
A bit more variety of vocal color would have been welcome, but let's not quibble.
Although that's a major quibble, the venison haggis was incredibly good and not to be missed under any circumstances.
People want to quibble about what word was used and what word might have been changed, but all stories are copy-edited at a newspaper.
This is a quibble rather than a significant criticism.
It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
1 Some may quibble with our use of the word "meager" here to refer to a correlation of .30. Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset
But these are mere quibbles next to the 6 million salary. Times, Sunday Times
Let's not quibble over pennies
But this is a small quibble, if quibble at all. Times, Sunday Times
You could quibble about some of the singing. Times, Sunday Times
I've just got a few minor quibbles .
The only quibble is that the greeny blue it chose as a backdrop is a bit irritating on the eye.
It's a minor quibble to be sure, but one that annoyed me nonetheless.
My only quibble is that the piano sounds like it was recorded well and then had some kind of reverberation added later.
This is a small quibble, though. Times, Sunday Times
My guy doesn't quibble about cleaning up cat yark. Or As I Like to Call it, "The School of Hard Knocks"
My quibble with the Rev was simply the fact that a classically themed puzzle was further complicated by cluing that invariably involved other often arcane literary knowledge or passe cultural references which while I must stress were fine for me and I'm sure the majority of regulars here simply reinforced the prejudice that crosswords are not for the young. Cryptic crossword No 25,237
But those quibbles apart, even old hands at the Capitoline Museum should try to take a look at the new exedra, and prepare – like the locals -- to be surprised. The emperor's new clothes
But on such a satisfying night, that is the smallest of quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
Minor quibbles concerned modernity rather than problems of taste. Times, Sunday Times
In spite of these quibbles, Lancaster's book should prove a valuable resource to ministers and serious laity who are willing to grapple with issues of biblical authority.
But on such a satisfying night, that is the smallest of quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
While some might quibble at the characterization of physics as "uncontroversial", she does seem like a good example of someone whose decision as to whether to pursue a career in science was based on external social factors rather than based on purely innate preferences. Archive 2008-08-01
But those are the smallest of quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
A few quibbles aside, we should value the BBC's comprehensive and dedicated coverage of an event that continues to grip our imagination, even if the weather gods frequently rain on Wimbledon's parade.
People want to quibble about what word was used and what word might have been changed, but all stories are copy-edited at a newspaper.
However, this is a slight quibble in what is an otherwise fine book.
Though one may quibble at some of O'Brien's choices in this free adaptation, she gives force and clarity to a notoriously corrupt text and rescues the ending from tricksy bathos.
I might quibble with details of Wax's hypotheticals.
Sadly, one of the major parties has slight quibbles with the details of the agreement.
But those are the smallest of quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the reservations were mere quibbles. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
You may quibble that I wasn't strictly a tourist. Times, Sunday Times
Just one quibble: the token phrase ‘while congratulating England's players’ might look a tad lickspittle to true believers.
AS GERMANS, ITALIANS AND Norwegians quibbled over ownership of the Nazi submarine raised from the Kattegat depths off Denmark last week, a team of Danish experts boarded the U-boat to secure the 16 torpedoes and other munitions still on board. Sunken Treasure
This might seem a quibble but it is very important. The Times Literary Supplement
Basically it was a fine performance I have only minor quibbles to make about her technique.
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
Basically it was a fine performance I have only minor quibbles to make about her technique.
The only quibble is with the book 's cramped format. The Times Literary Supplement
Basically it was a fine performance I have only minor quibbles to make about her technique.
His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.
But while the English authorities quibbled, paltered, and delayed -- with a little evasion, a little extra red-tapism, a little judicious procrastination -- the days of Kinmont Stories of the Border Marches
To my left was a 60s building playing resigned host to the department of philosophy and every exasperating quibble and inconsequentiality it expostulated, and up further along the rawboned green breast was a business school erected in crisp glass and cleanly sectioned stone with marble facades. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
Almost exactly a year later, Cheney didn’t quibble about the term insurgency when he was speaking with Larry King on CNN but instead told viewers that it was in its “last throes.” The Longest War
Basically it was a fine performance I have only minor quibbles to make about her technique.
Cavils and quibbles aside, this is a tome to own.
Let's not quibble over minor details.
The quibble is with their methods, and their apparent indifference to the sacrifices these methods required from others. Times, Sunday Times
But really, those are minor quibbles compared to the book's overwhelming strengths.
His main weakness is to quibble over unimportant things.
Prudie would not quibble with any man who is turned off by a woman who balloons up several sizes from what she was when they initially got together.
Besides a few minor quibbles such as the Aeschylus quote or some "snogging" (how I hate that word!), and besides also the magic, which I insist be discussed as a separate issue, the opponents of the series will note a very, very serious moral flaw, and they will be entirely correct in pointing it out and condemning it. Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Listening to Burns, it is difficult to quibble with his damning assessment.
Dana was the thorough-going type of man, not overbalanced and erratic, without quirk or quibble of temperament. A CLASSIC OF THE SEA
A bit more variety of vocal color would have been welcome, but let's not quibble.
The packaging is attractive, and I love the plastic slipcover over the standard fold-out with gates, but I do have some minor quibbles.
My one quibble with the article is the subtitle.
But these are minor quibbles and they miss the point entirely. Times, Sunday Times
I find little with which to quarrel and only a bit over which to quibble - and the quibbles supplement the book's argument more than challenge it.
The Lib Dems are so close to New Labour there are only minor quibbles to arge over. The way forward
For paragoge it is not easy to give an equivalent; it is leading or bringing with a notion of change, sometimes a change into error, as when it means a quibble. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
The pursuit of physics by hair-splitting quibbles and scholastic logic applied to Aristotle's texts, as in this first long manuscript of Galileo's, was more an elaborate verbal game than an investigation of Nature.
And quibbles they are: as a film which, from the outset, devotes itself unashamedly to style over substance, it scores top marks.
Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his disquisition, whether he be enlarging knowledge or exalting affection, whether he be amusing attention with incidents, or enchaining it in suspense, let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. Preface to Shakespeare
He caulked the chasms with philosophic oakum, he 'payed' them with dialectic pitch, he sheathed them with copper and brass by means of audacious dogmatism and insolent quibbles, until the enemy seemed to have been silenced, and the vessel righted so far as to float. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
Some of the reservations were mere quibbles. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
They agreed as to the grand outlines,but quibbled over particulars.
When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don't quibble over the appetizers.
But, if these minor quibbles are the only major criticisms that can be leveled at the album, then there is little worry to be had.
But this is a small quibble about a book of great ambition and power. Times, Sunday Times
You offer a variety points of view, acknowledge your own contradictions, resolve them, involute and qualify and complicate and undermine those resolutions, and end up with an ultimate determination so considered, nuanced, and precise, with so much allowance for exceptions, that the only possible response short of writing a parallel novella-length essay of my own (like I did last time) is to quibble. The Sacred Domain
Despite these quibbles, I would recommend the book as a provocative introduction to some of the central postures adopted by Judaism and Christianity in the face of basic human questions.
Just don't mess around with postponing elections on the basis of technological quibbles.
In spite of those petty quibbles, I'm guessing she's been deluged with responses, for all the reasons I mentioned.
The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself. Shelfari:
Minor quibbles concerned modernity rather than problems of taste. Times, Sunday Times
But these are mere quibbles. Times, Sunday Times
My other quibble is that the vigorous minor-mode motive of repeated notes isn't bowed roughly enough.

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