| But despite its querulous melodrama and crazed Freudian pedantries, it has a human purpose the previous film lacked, and its sheer deranged brilliance is magnificent. |
| In the 19th century it championed the pedantries of Victorian painting and helped exclude the impressionist revolution from these shores, holding us up on the road to modern art. |
| Distracting you from these nagging pedantries is a startlingly farcical plot with some bizarre touches. |
| On the other hand, a serious study of movie classification would not waste so much space on the pedantries of NC-17, however laughable they are. |
| These sort of pedantries were a passion with him, and I did not interpose a word as he spoke. |
| That the decorums of citation are the arbitrary residue of ancient pedantries whose raisons d'être are long past reconstructing does not reduce the penalties for nonconformity. |
