Example sentences for: cavalier

How can you use “cavalier” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The WP 's TV column notes that earlier this week, the Los Angeles City Council passed a motion condemning the new sitcom "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer," a show about a black butler and personal advisor to President Lincoln that includes cavalier references to slavery.

  • The rap on Dunlap, after all, was not simply that he's ruthless in job cutting and cavalier about the relationship between corporations and the communities in which they do business, but also that he's a one trick pony.

  • It wins credit for downplaying special effects in favor of story and "exploring the salutary effects of imminent doom" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). But it's said to be otherwise soporific, with too few action scenes and characters who seem oddly cavalier about their impending death.

  • What it indicates is that Dubya is not only the lightest of intellectual lightweights, but a fundamentally cavalier and unserious person.

  • That acknowledgment having been made, I find myself continually irritated by their cavalier dismissal of everything that human beings developed in the course of history: it reflects an adolescent mentality that is scornful of anything that might have taken place before these parvenu geniuses put finger to keyboard.


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