| In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry. |
| 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. |
| When somebody else does it, it's pedantry, when you do it it's pellucidity. |
| I shall tell you in a minute why I find the pedantry, and sometimes even the simplicity, of this debate distasteful. |
| The pedantry of geometrically straight lines is not only no idealism, it is a solecism in Nature. |
| This would be mere pedantry, except that the rhythmic position of a note depends entirely on the moment when it starts. |
