When somebody else does it, it's pedantry, when you do it it's pellucidity. |
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In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry. |
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To criticise animation for being too perfect may seem like pedantry and it's clear that a lot of work went into the film. |
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It means that with a traditional German scrupulousness and a pedantry it is brought to perfection incarnate technical thought. |
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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. |
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This would be mere pedantry, except that the rhythmic position of a note depends entirely on the moment when it starts. |
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Seldom can testosterone and pedantry have come together in an American political debate in such electrifying marriage. |
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Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry. |
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There is much pedantry, but every so often there is stark beauty. |
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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. |
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I shall tell you in a minute why I find the pedantry, and sometimes even the simplicity, of this debate distasteful. |
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It can be nothing more than, at best, a distinction without a difference, a meaningless bit of pedantry. |
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The aim of the club was to satirise ignorance and pedantry in the form of the fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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All this study reduces paganism to pedantry. |
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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. |
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Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays. |
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But it is the French ostracism, strongly sullied with intolerant pedantry which, of tired war, will lead it to seek, as a soloist, the foreign scenes to give concerts or recitals to it. |
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It's an exercise we must do, in order to justify a proposal that overcoming fears of naivety and pedantry, lays a reasonable base for a focused and realist discussion on these challenges. |
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The pagans, indeed, provided a vocabulary and a method with which to judge not only the products of pedantry, but also those of sacred inspiration. |
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Having once noticed the curative properties of plum wines, the Japanese began to cultivate plantations of plum trees with pedantry and diligence so peculiar to them. |
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It is an intolerable piece of pedantry and most superfluous attention to detail to make a point of correcting all children's little sins against the customary expression, for they always cure themselves with time. |
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