Don Juan delighted London gossipmongers with plentiful allusions to the scandal surrounding the poet's divorce from his young wife of one year and his subsequent flight from English "hypocrisy and cant."
-- Banite Eisler, Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
Underneath all the grime there was as much sentimental piety and conformist cant.
-- Andrew Sarris, "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet"
...the English major from a working-class family who now and then asks a forthright question that cuts through the literary cant.
-- Theodore Solotaroff, "Memoirs for Memorial Day", New York Times, May 29, 1977
