Sentences with phrase «by pedantic»

Posted by pedantic george Well, it's a new year and I think that's a good time to look at the squad and management.

(When you state that «Therefore, in this moment everything, including the thoughts in your head and the things that you do must necessarily be completely outside of your control and completely predetermined by the pedantic and purposeless meandering of existence.».

Not exact matches

I think I understand what you may also mean by «pedantic».

By the way your article is much too long and pedantic.

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.

By the way, it's deadwood not deadwoods and sorry to be pedantic.

Sorry to be pedantic but Watford is a town 20 miles from Arsenal, between 45 minutes and an hour by road.

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.

So he avoids the plod from hot Mercury to freezing Pluto much loved by the more pedantic.

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.

Woody Allen's Café Society is a sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d'ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro — yet always freighted with a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in both Hollywood and New York, nostalgia which the title itself rather coercively announces.

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.

Nowadays, writers never follow the traditional method of writing by making use of pedantic words to express literary creativity.

Well, we've yet to «gain» from Cloud if you (by which I mean «me») wan na be pedantic.

* You're right, pedantic indie fan, Brütal Legend on consoles was published by EA.

To be fair on the battle royal thing (or to be pedantic) the miss wrestlemania br was for a tiara and won by a bloke.

Even since the release of Hyrule Historia, Nintendo really have made an effort to nail down their Zelda lore, with Skyword Sword capitalising on the new Zelda timeline («timelines» if you want to get pedantic) by being a prequel.

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.

MoMA's title, «Object Matter,» sounds pedantic by comparison, but that, too, may have a point.

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.

In terms of style, his general idea is to bring writing about art into public discourse and away from the near - incomprehensible academy (represented by most of the pedantic grad student analyses in Artforum, or anything in Texte zur Kunst, for example).

The latter made British artists pedantic while in France the avant garde, less rattled by the camera, were seeing dots and cubes.

Today, everything within the walls of the art world, from the educational language spouted by museums to the highly intellectualized language of the critics seems pedantic and purple.

However, my pedantic side obliges me to point out that the Gulf Stream is a predominantly wind - driven western boundary current that moves up from the Gulf of Mexico along the US coast to Cape Hatteras, at which point it heads off into the central Atlantic (see also this letter by Carl Wunsch).

At the risk of being pedantic, Venus is actually warmed by the Sun.

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

Wotts — It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

I know my interpretation is pedantic, but that is why I asked about simply not answering questions asked by the officer, rather then playing the game by turning the question back on them.

The reputed purpose is to make sure that all of the facts sworn to are really in front of the person swearing to them and not just swapped out by changes in the claim after the document is sworn to, but it is a bit pedantic.

In - house solicitors and many solicitors in private practice are left aghast at the pedantic approach adopted by the SRA to regulatory issues all in the name of the public interest — but often in cases where the public would be astonished at the resources that have been devoted.

I recall inviting a pedantic husband telling me how to run a couples therapy session to continue his advice - giving by standing up and delivering a lecture on good therapy.