12 example sentences using cavil.
Cavil used in a sentence
Cavil in a sentence as a noun
But suppose we allow your cavil, and try "insist" or "request"?
Not trying to cavil here, but think of how that would affect your program if you type "chair" and a teapot shows up.
This argument is a cavil, not a sound philosophical argument.
Then let's rephrase to meet that cavil - there's far too much irrelevant, futile and stupendously wasteful politics, then.
Of course it's unnecessary; you may note that I called it a cavil, and a cavil is always unnecessary, which is part of what makes it a cavil.
That is not a fatuous cavil - that's a very different thing and sometimes puts their motivations at odds with those of company founders.
Cavil in a sentence as a verb
I find his critics, most particularly those claimi global fault, cavil and singularly unpersuasive.
>but I'm sure that is merely an unworthy cavil...53 days ago I wrote a post but decided not to publish it. Thus am I compelled by you defend my right to publish here.>it doesn't seem particularly to favor one side over the otherThe non-racist voices, like Michael Hudson, get plenty of exposure elsewhere.
You'd have needed much greater capital investment to do so without it and would probably be less profitable for the same revenue, but those aren't the points I made in my initial cavil, which I now gather was unjustified.
The claim that "the US people didn't directly agree to [broad NSA traffic/metadata analysis]" is a mere cavil at best; "the US people" need not "agree", nor particularly need our representatives, who debate and pass laws, but who do not interpret them -- such questions are considered and ruled upon by judges, and ultimately by the Supreme Court.
Whether you recognize the existence of these drawbacks, which inhere in the act of discarding a century and a half of innovation in hunting technology, has no slightest effect on the reality of them -- not, of course, that they would affect anyone you care about, am I right?And in closing, a cavil, but an amusing one: If you're so red hot on the subject of banning guns, then why describe yourself in your HN profile as a "gun for hire?
The cavil that "Emacs is a great operating system which just needs a good text editor" is, as with many cavils, not entirely devoid of truth; rms has I think never stopped grieving for the MIT AI Lab and its Lisp machines, and a lot of the early design decisions that went into GNU Emacs were driven, I think, by a desire that it should offer at least a broadly similar environment -- turning a Unix box into a Lisp machine in spite of itself, if you will.