And one more
cavil: Korda takes Thomas Rymer's "clutter," in the phrase "to raise ...
Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England
There is almost nothing at which to
cavil here, but full-size facsimiles of a few of the most important pages would have been welcome (there are four much reduced illustrations).
The account Book of Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger
One
cavil is the decision to translate from French the contributions from Brix, Bonnefoy, Bailly, and Deguy.
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity
The judge added: "What DNA testing has proved beyond
cavil is the remarkable degree of fallibility in the basic fact-finding process on which we rely in criminal cases.
A welcome decision
Of course, it would be mean-spirited to
cavil at so hoary a classic's continuing rebirths.
Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation. (Brief Reviews of Books)
Those who whine or
cavil about nitpicking may profit from being reminded that a nit is an immature louse.
Meet Son of Encarta, Sr., then relax and enjoy our yummy arboreal rice
Devastated by her son's incarceration for the crime of "gross indecency," and with the creditors' wolves at the door, she died believing that Oscar hadn't risen above the
cavil of smaller minds.
Wilde Child
Waxing particularly lyrical, Mr Fischler said that centuries ago, William Shakespeare summed up the opinion of the age when he said: "I'll give thrice so much land to any well-deserving friend; But in the way of bargain mark ye me I'll
cavil on the ninth part of a hair".
EU/WTO: FISCHLER SAYS EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE MUST FACE THE WTO ACID TEST
Rorty's genuine affection for America shines through so tellingly - the book's autobiographical fragment is instructive in this regard - that it seems almost churlish to
cavil. But
cavil I must, on several points.
Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Purists may
cavil at the apparent lack of depth, and tyro re-engineers may wish for more detail, but there is a reading list which briefly reviews each recommended title.
Re-engineering at Work
While it is clear that the budget for John Greyson's film far exceeded that of, for example, Cockroach, one can hardly
cavil at the cost of his adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard's play.
Winter tales: "now is the winter of our discontent"
Any Plato scholar might be tempted to
cavil here and there, but the important point is whether the picture of Plato and the Neoplatonists is the one which was influential with later writers.
Platonism and the English Imagination
Do we carp and
cavil because a tiny fraction of our taxes or of our purchases must be used to make public facilities more easily accessible to those with disabilities?
Love thy gay neighbor
It is more than a
cavil, for instance, to observe that he exaggerates the violence of Russian peasant society (peasants may periodically have erupted in orgies of destruction, but those periods were generations apart and always triggered by extraordinary circumstances), and thus the propensity to violence that peasant migrants brought to the region.
Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905
Chapter 2, "From Adamant Square and
Cavil Row," questions both a simplistic and arrogant exclusivism that closes itself to truth without by claiming that all truth already resides within and a "facile inclusivism" that "discredits all sincerities by confusing what they earnestly differentiate" (p.
To Meet and to Greet: Faith with Faith