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As Berlant quibbles with the woman on the mountain, her wry and goofy presence instantly sets the ad's tone.

“I don’t think that you can quibble with Smith’s effort to slim this indictment down,” Eisen said.

This was largely devoted to lowering the cost of housing, food, medical services and child-raising for families, and generated a swell of quibbles in the press and the punditocracy.

The ongoing quibbling over whether "The Bear" is a comedy or a drama received a new splash of accelerant when the FX series landed 23 Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday.

This isn’t to quibble with the notion that Biden lied on the form or that he engaged in other culpable conduct during a dark period of his life.