Sentences with phrase «as pedantic»

ie Ed Hawkins explanation of things come across as pedantic..

While I see the educational sincerity behind this decision, these galleries come across as pedantic and simplistic, and they are laced with the rhetorical stuff that really annoyed these guys in the first place.

While some will criticize his use of vérité - style shaky camerawork on scenes in set the districts and in the games themselves as pedantic, that touch adds flavor and distinction to these proceedings.

The game will automate the drawing of floors and walls if you want it to, so it's not quite as pedantic as earlier entries in the series, but to us at least that feels like cheating.

Bernard Woolley, the prime minister's principal private secretary, is as pedantic as ever, objecting to mixed metaphors and taking everything far too literally.

In addition, we have a President who has been easily portrayed by his opponents as a champion of Big Government, determined to trample on individual freedoms (as well as pedantic and elitist), while Michelle Obama is portrayed as harsh and militant.

While this approach may be perceived as pedantic or tedious, it efficiently solves a few issues.

Not exact matches

As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent - teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns of a bunch of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out - of - control idiots.

Or am I being pedantic in the overstatement of their mandate to do as they wish without elector endorsement?

if, like Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch, one sees a pedantic old scholar engaged in useless research as the Milton of his age, one is bound to be disillusioned.

equality: «we» may indeed say that gays are equal... but do «they» [the «nay - sayers, if you like, as I don't want to use labels that don't work as in «fundamentalists», «conservatives», or even «liberals» — these terms have been hijacked and reinterpreted to mean something far from their original intent... sorry — pedantic me?!]

What is their deduction of metaphysical attributes but a shuffling and matching of pedantic dictionary - adjectives, aloof from morals, aloof from human needs, something that might be worked out from the mere word «God» by one of those logical machines of wood and brass which recent ingenuity has contrived as well as by a man of flesh and blood.

In this sweet and simple story, Mia's kindness toward the old man and little boy (subtly hinted at as being St. Nick and the Christ child) demonstrates, without being moralistic or pedantic, the true spirit of Christmas giving.

'» This half - hearted attempt to pass this theological transformation off as a form of wooden textual redaction sounds like the type of pedantic scholarship from which Alter is supposed to save us.

A bit pedantic on my part, but if someone who knows Korean is searching for a pork recipe, given your tags on this post, they might miss your site - which would be too bad, since as I say, your recipe is both good and authentic.

Also our very pedantic daughter told us they were donuts, and who can argue with a stubborn two year old who is busy licking chocolate off as many treats as she can get her hands on?

As far as I'm concerned, every backslide is traceable to Arsene Wenger: he's very pedantic, too frugal to compete and lacks modern football tacticAs far as I'm concerned, every backslide is traceable to Arsene Wenger: he's very pedantic, too frugal to compete and lacks modern football tacticas I'm concerned, every backslide is traceable to Arsene Wenger: he's very pedantic, too frugal to compete and lacks modern football tactics.

We sing the song, we relish as Brainy is thrown into the woods for his pedantic rants, and we hope Azrael never eats anybody.

Sorry to seem a bit pedantic but also if i were to use a blank copper or brass or sterling silver circle disc and for instance hammer it, stamp words on it with metal letter stamps, oxidise it and add beads and charm would that be classed as an original design then?

[spelling pedant] Rachael, it's remuneration, not renumeration [/ spelling pedant] As a further pedantic point, all commerce is casino capitalism, in that risks must be borne in order to get reward.

An eye for detail (some might say a pedantic nature) is also paramount as it may be crucial to the protection of your client's interests.

Often dismissed as boring and pedantic, the science of measurement is set for an exciting future

I admit I can be too pedantic about this, as I should accept cinematic adaptations as their own beasts.

The trailer for his latest, Youth, angles it as both an emotional and a pedantic experience.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

Swicord's gift as a screenwriter is that her catch - up summaries avoid sounding pedantic or like CliffsNotes.

If Green ultimately takes too much pride in his hipster references (however nostalgic I got seeing the 2001-esque United Artists logo that used to scare the bejesus out of me as a child, it's self - conscious whims like these that make Undertow sometimes feel superficially invested), the presence of the generally indifferent Bell has a neutralizing effect on Green's tendency towards the pedantic, and the director's championing of old - school values — his dislike of ADR, his fondness for found locations — once again inspires lonely but hearty cries of solidarity.

I loved Amy Poehler's impression of Brit actors doing an American accent in a pedantic, emphatic bass growl, the announcement that Wes Anderson arrived at the ceremony «on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts» and the fact that Boyhood «proves that there are still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you are under 40».

I hoped the performance and the integrity of that would be the most important thing to her, and it was... She's very strong - willed, as am I. I'm pretty pedantic about sticking to the script and making sure it's all word for word.

In the end, The Imitation Game simply can not live up to the inherent drama of the story it's trying to tell, coming across as far more frivolous and pedantic than it should have been.

The dramatic conflict is real because as Samantha begins thinking and feeling for herself, and grows closer to Theodore, he begins making the same judgments and pedantic criticisms of her that affected his previous relationship.

Kellams has gone so far as to lash out at fans on Twitter, accusing them of «pedantic port - begging» and mocking them for their messages.

This title has a pun which is probably too weirdly pedantic even to count as groanworthy: an immediate, contemporary war being fought on the issue of electrical current.

Bernard Flannigan (Skyler Gisondo) is an awkward, pedantic high school junior who never misses a meeting of the school board and counts his grandfather (Bruce Dern, delightful) as his only friend — other than his Chinese pen pal / girlfriend.

If this all sounds a little tedious and pedantic — as Dollhouse occasionally managed to be — it's not.

The case was won by the defendant (the organiser) without any question, and the plaintiff was questioned as to the wisdom of such a pedantic action.

Some of the more arcane aspects of Group A regulations, such as the need for standard production door cards and dashboards, must have seemed a bit pedantic to the teams and engineers, but now they add to the charm and the relevance of the car.

«I love reading ebooks, but as an obsessive, pedantic designer type, I couldn't help thinking that the actual experience of reading a book on a screen, although good enough, could be so much better.

Although didacticism was historically intentional in genres such as the spiritual allegory or moral treatise, the term is used today to describe writing that is «ostentatiously dull and erudite,» or in other words, overly preachy or pedantic.

One might consider this pedantic, but flow and structure are as important as content.

I'm sure I miss some, but rarely as I'm so pedantic.

(On a minor, pedantic note, the camera feature in the new Zelda can hardly be borrowed from other open world games — as Jed alludes — since it originates in Wind Waker.)

Rumour has it that the contract only allows for distribution via physical CDs and MP3 downloads rather than Youtube videos (or something else as equally pedantic), but we can't find any confirmation for that outside of various third party tweets and forum comments.

Without sounding pedantic, I'd like to revise the claim of «social object» as one first expressed by Jyri Engestrom in PhD research that I read more than three years ago.

Sensitively paced, scholarly yet not pedantic and respectful of the work, it illuminates the development and crystallization of Suprematism, an art that was to be (in Malevich's words) «the end and beginning where sensations are uncovered, where art emerges «as such.

In a review for ARTnews, Grimes wrote in the Times, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter called her work «traditional and radical,» describing her paintings as «broad and bright, considered without being fussy, thoughtful but never pedantic.»

With references to abstract expressionism and the action painting of the 1960s, process rather than product is of central importance to West's work, a fact supported by the lengthy titles given to each film which act as thorough, even pedantic narrative accompaniments to the work, elucidating the abstract marks onscreen as the films are literally infused by the materials only through their titles.

This painting of paintings is the densest and most meta work in the show, an outlier, but manages to reference itself as art without coming across as too heady or pedantic.

In a climate where much of contemporary art is increasingly political, challenging, pedantic or even obscure, it's not often that a contemporary art exhibition is described as «totally fun.»

It was the time when traditional principles of art were coming under serious pressure from modernists, who were beginning to question some of the pedantic conventions of academic art, as taught in the grand European academies of fine arts.