Overlooked in all this caviling is the actual ability and character of the person in question.

The caviling of the false-hearted is the mewling of sick cats.

Which is perhaps about as much caviling as this brainy and adventurous tale should bear.

Saddam, prideful to the last, left much of the caviling over prison conditions to his erstwhile minions.

There will be no caviling of carrion eaters over the corpse as there was when the Serke properties were divided.

I hereby retract all my previous caviling and dismissive responses to your pieces, as if my approval matters.

And it will mean putting up with endless critical caviling and preaching, without which the director of the New York Philharmonic would never feel at home.

This caviling may be difficult to follow, but to be more specific would be to reveal more about the plot than should be exposed for those unfamiliar with the play.

President Charles Logan (Greg Itzin) was irresistible as a caviling, craven commander in chief who manipulates his pill-addled first lady, Martha (Jean Smart).

"Born into changing times, Bob Dylan shaped history in song," it announces, and there's no caviling or second-guessing through each phase, up to Mr. Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident and reclusion.

He said he had told the vice president that, despite the caviling of many Republican members of Congress, there was no point in passing a legislative plan unless it was better for the party than the court's proposed boundaries.

Accordingly, there will be no caviling here about the use of a picture of a winking wolf, perhaps meant to invoke a sensitive dances-with-wolves image for Mr. Clinton, amid the biographic and geographic scenes shown at the beginning of the gala at the Capital Center.

At one level, who would cavil about an easy departure?

"So long as we are on our feet, and away from cover, surely they will not cavil."

Who could cavil at the words of a friendly reader?

No one could cavil with that, either then, or in historical retrospect.

It is an expensive procedure, of course, but I would not cavil at that.

Safely back at Colombo airport, who were we to cavil?

Who could cavil at such a display of consensus when partisan politics has failed?

There are historians who cavil about the exact origins of the legend.

"I should not cavil at a change of scenery.

One could cavil at a sudden shift in gears.

I will not cavil at her use, four times, of raise in connection with the upbringing of children.

Why do I cavil over what might seem like merely superficial changes in the external structure of nonprofit theaters?

You cavil, widow; I did mean my queen.

"Thou hast been known to cavil so," Cordelia pointed out.

So finally, an arts council grant that surely nobody can cavil - an award given to develop new musical writing.

"A people who would eat raw fish should not cavil at civilization," she said, spooning vegetables into her mouth.

If the long journey home proves wearisome, and ends in rejection, shall I cavil at the price?

The hypercritical may cavil and say that, as a manufacturer of cement, Edison will be benefited.

While some may cavil at such comparisons, others believe that Hyacinth's fate does rise almost to classic tragedy.

"You cannot cavil at the manner of it; we warned that it might not be to your liking.

Yet, as it transpired, she was cavilling at Fortune before the fickle goddess had deserted her.

"Do you imagine the first explorers of the Commons paused to quibble and cavil over every little detail?"

We could cavil about a rather uninspired menu and shortcutting on ingredients.

Scholars of classical performance may cavil at some of the methods here, but dramatically they work like gangbusters.

Leon would not cavil at blazoning his youthful misdemeanors, not to her.

It needs to be said that these are small cavils.

The three fell in behind him without cavil or question.

But over time, Cavil appears to warm to the boy.

You will remember that I have been following your orders without cavil for a long time.

Michael accepted that without cavil; one did not give a woman away!

My only cavil is that it could have been hotter.

These cavils aside, most of the essays are very good indeed.

As a sensitive representation of the music, it was beyond cavil.

Well, why cavil about a few years, or even a faulty memory?

But let's rise above such cavils and tune to a higher channel.

That lack of leadership makes it difficult for him to do other than cavil at our figures.

It was a personal attack, despite the cavil about abusing the force's time.

But this is a tiny cavil about two truly superior works.

In general we should give them thanks, not cavils.

His existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.

The two Cavils argue while on their way to the airlock.

"It is too late to travel tonight," Cavil said reluctantly.

Not a cavil about the West passed his lips.

Cavil is resentful that the Five gave him human weaknesses.

But what might have inspired cavils in the opera house flourished here.

Since you've been demolishing tradition all over the place, why cavil at this one?

Cavil shows her images of the temple on the algae planet.

One last cavil: with so much superior bread available, the restaurant should change its supplier.

While the music and dance are thrilling, the presentation deserves a few cavils.

Fortunately, the food at the handsome old establishment is - with very few cavils - the best it has been in years.