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When somebody else does it, it's pedantry, when you do it it's pellucidity.
In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
To criticise animation for being too perfect may seem like pedantry and it's clear that a lot of work went into the film.
It means that with a traditional German scrupulousness and a pedantry it is brought to perfection incarnate technical thought.
That point of pedantry aside, once you get past its unpleasant, stewed vegetable aroma, this is, for just 66p a bottle, not a bad little pilsner.
This would be mere pedantry, except that the rhythmic position of a note depends entirely on the moment when it starts.
Seldom can testosterone and pedantry have come together in an American political debate in such electrifying marriage.
Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
There is much pedantry, but every so often there is stark beauty.
The speeches amazed listeners with their conversational tone and freedom from the expected pedantry, and nor did they bloviate, in the usual manner of the stump.
I shall tell you in a minute why I find the pedantry, and sometimes even the simplicity, of this debate distasteful.
It can be nothing more than, at best, a distinction without a difference, a meaningless bit of pedantry.
The aim of the club was to satirise ignorance and pedantry in the form of the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus.
In spite of my pedantry and great care for cleanliness in my dark-room there may always be some dust grain on the film and so you have to retouch it.
Meanwhile, Vice-President Al Gore was similarly making the late-night-comedy rounds, poking fun at his woodenness, his pedantry, and his tendency to exaggerate his own achievements.
He once called a fellow director on Christmas Day to complain about a missing comma in a memo. But if his perfectionism bordered on pedantry, Warburg continued to inspire great loyalty.
The authority and intimidating power of obscure and specialized language still hold sway, and the rule of pedantry over credulity has changed only its outward appearance.
All this study reduces paganism to pedantry.
A competent and tireless researcher, he puts himself at the center of the Haitian economic reality without bragging or pedantry but convinced of the possibility of a sustained economic recovery.
Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A striking characteristic of these learned women was the entire absence of all priggism or pedantry.
I may have classed it as a freakish pedantry, the result of an unprecedented memory.
Yet even his devotion to culture was not free from pedantry and dilettantism.
In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness.
The pedantry of geometrically straight lines is not only no idealism, it is a solecism in Nature.
Events had no right to be born throughout his dominions, without a preparatory course of his obstetrical pedantry.
Events must not be born without a preparatory course of his obstetrical pedantry!
His classical attainments, if not florid, were liberal, and free from pedantry.
When he writes of ships he does not tease us with the pedantry of technical terms.
The character of pedantry and preciosity which the Htel afterwards incurred, is not to be traced in any of its original features.
They have to us an air of formality, a slight dash of pedantry.
Once our profession becomes all absorbing it hardens into pedantry.
Soukanhoff was right in warning the obsessive to beware of pedantry.
The dogmatism and pedantry upon which it is based are easily confuted.
The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.
Patriotism is suspected, and sometimes sinks almost to pedantry.
I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit.
His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.
In order to escape the imputation of pedantry we shall render the substance, and, so far as it is possible, the form of the dialogue that succeeded, into the English tongue.
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