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Purists may cavil at the liberties taken with scientific objectivity, but as a memoirist, he is a mensch, a prince among primates.
But while some may cavil at this, others may think it gives The Making Of Scotland character and a certain naive charm.
It is a little late for them to cavil about the details having delayed 11 years on delivering it.
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.
This cavil aside, the exhibition is a well-paced and absorbing study of the most influential exponent of an under-rated decorative art form.
Only a grinch would cavil about the way Norton treats religion.
Few, whatever their politics, will cavil at Michael Gove's aspiration of setting teachers free.
I therefore ask my fellow Members to vote against this draft agreement, especially as the Council has the audacity to cavil at a few million.
I do not think that even my most irrational opponent will cavil at the sanity of that course.
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.
It would be foolish to cavil about living in any city, with its many pleasures and diversions, he says.
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.
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.
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.
For all their limitations, we must not take a nihilistic approach to Marxism-Leninism or cavil at their authors.
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.
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that I would have liked to see her in a part which gave her greater scope to display her abilities, rather than in this outdated and outmoded piece.
Some newspapers will cavil, arguing that without sensation and intrusion they cannot survive.
In all, more than 700 entries cover a growing discipline. One cavil needs to be mentioned.
We've had old Dot Cotton reminiscing in umpteen episodes her entirely white life and nary a cavil.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Let no one cavil at our phraseology, when we say that the determination was most heroical.
This is Mythology, and here is, beyond all cavil, a late corruption of Religion.
There is no hesitation, cavil, or debate in the acceptance of it as a duty.
We confess there are points liable to cavil in a walk home by night in February.
His distress would have moved an adamantine heart, and was not a thing to cavil at.
Then the little stinging insects of the shed began to cavil and sneer.
The treaty, as it transpires, is the source of general cavil.
The old navy in its last days earned a fame that no belittling malevolence dare cavil at.
Lecount's perfectly sensible and disinterested advice without a word of cavil, as he had taken it now.
The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet.
What good purpose then will it serve to cavil at the monks forever?
Dalton liked sympathy too well to cavil about his title to it.
The lad was too thirsty by now to cavil at anything even remotely resembling water, so he drank his fill while Akut stood with raised head, alert for any danger.
In whatever light she viewed the conduct or disposition of her cousin, she was met by obstinate facts that admitted of no cavil nor of any exaggeration.
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