| 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. |
| 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. |
| It means that with a traditional German scrupulousness and a pedantry it is brought to perfection incarnate technical thought. |
| It can be nothing more than, at best, a distinction without a difference, a meaningless bit of pedantry. |
