Sentence examples for cavalier language from inspiring English sources

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They understand that it does America no good to appear indifferent to international laws, and have put much effort into softening the cavalier language and policy that have come from the White House and the Pentagon.

In particular, he inserts himself into interviews with Mr. Rumsfeld — clearly annoyed, even appalled, by the Pentagon chief's cavalier language and reluctance to assume responsibility for his department's failures.

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They neglected the taboo that kept fish and animals separate, and would not let fish-skin and animal hide be sewn in the same coat; and they could not remember exactly why they built little wooden huts over gravestones, as if to give more comfortable shelter to the dead.The end of the worldMrs Smith herself seemed cavalier about the language for a time.

In recent weeks Django has faced criticism for its use of racist language and its cavalier treatment of explosive material.

Language is a bit cavalier, using colloquial terms such as "smoking guns", which are not appropriate for an international audience and only understandable by those with a certain cultural background.

They acted from other motives, which could (and can) easily be read in their bravado, their defiant swagger and language, and even in the cavalier way they resorted to a kind of mock legal reasoning in those famously crooked torture memoranda.

37. Frank Jackson (1998) displays what some might think is a too-cavalier attitude toward empirical investigation of moral language: "I am sometimes asked in a tone that suggests that the question is a major objection why, if conceptual analysis is concerned to elucidate what governs our classificatory practice, don't I advocate doing serious opinion polls on people's responses to various cases?

The influence of the horse is expressed in the English language in such terms as chivalry and cavalier, which connote honour, respect, good manners, and straightforwardness.

Treating foreign works in this cavalier fashion sends the same message as the decline of language teaching in schools; we are increasingly a monoglot culture, treating classic plays in other languages as mere raw material for our own theatre.

Humanists and idealists criticized its naturalistic orientation, its Rousseauean emphasis on interesting and freeing the child, and its cavalier treatment of the study of classic literature and classical languages.

During a playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010, he proclaimed that the city of Cleveland stank, using language that was more coarse.

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