Sentences with phrase «dryasdust pedantry»

In order not to get too bogged down in lexical pedantry I've deferred to each individual restaurant's usage in the timeline below.

But even a stickler like me can admit, some folks just take the grammar pedantry too far.

Always the same pedantry.

That sense of marvelous absurdity and incredulous, wide - eyed wonder that attaches itself to great surprises, sudden amazements and comic twists, seems to get lost in the prosaic thickness of theological pedantry.

(And yes, I know, I may be accused of pedantry here; I'm certainly not opposed to theological poetics.

The pox of pedantry is absent from its pages.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superst.ition, and art into pedantry.

At other times, this shades into pedantry.

The issue, then, is deeper than a student's grade, a distinguished preacher's embarrassment, an undistinguished preacher's pretensions, or a homiletics professor's pedantry in drawing a crooked line of definition between plagiarism and legitimate borrowing.

I have often thought that in the old monkish poverty - worship, in spite of the pedantry which infested it, there might be something like that moral equivalent of war which we are seeking.

The Bible is a man - made random series of letters and philosophical treatises that refelect their authors politics, prejudices, pedantry and plain delusions too.

So quit your pedantry.)

Even the most effervescent and entertaining of voices is dragged down into a claggy gray pit of miserable pedantry.

Chris Bryant over-hyped his own contribution, which amounted to little more than semantic pedantry.

«The belated statements today of Ms Harman and her husband - full of pedantry and obfuscation - failed to answer the Mail's central points.»

In another, it slips into pedantry and judgementalism - a leftie version of Mary Whitehouse.

Some splendidly recount the quests that discovered the fossils, several point out the painstaking task of fossil preparation and a few drift into pedantry.

It's the kind of reaction that gets scientists a bad rap, and Olson — himself a scientist and film - maker — suggests it pays to skip the pedantry...

Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.

Here is an oddity: intriguing and yet weirdly exasperating, like a sentimental tribute, or a one - joke epic, or a monomaniacal act of stylistic pedantry.

On occasion I have been told that my pedantry borders on boorish behavior.

The main professional requirements charged to employees are diligence, pedantry and responsibility.

Pedantry — is a good quality of writer, when he / she pays attention to important details and fulfills the assignment according to your requirements.

There are more petty gripes I could express about the game, but it would very easily spills over into mere pedantry.

At this point, maybe I should've pointed him to the trailer featuring an aggressive, hulking, and thoroughly monstrous Thunderjaw, but I thought it best to refrain from such pedantry when in conversation with a respected and knowledgeable scholar.

But on the whole, Tuesday's press conference was clearly conceived in reaction to the perceived inadequacies of the 2011 affair, correcting last year's under - explanation by plunging into laborious pedantry.

Without pedantry, she has examined in turn the various ways of making marks on canvas in her inimitable, straight - edged, linear style.

The careful arrangement of the exhibition evokes the sharpness of the subject; whilst a cocaine binge might be seen as excess or libertinism, the meticulous construction of the exhibition betrays more pedantry than debauchery.

Your pedantry (which I see you attempt to repeat @ 1) is entirely unfounded.

3 MA Rodger said Your pedantry (which I see you attempt to repeat @ 1) is entirely unfounded.

Mistakes last, but pedantry kills.

The trick here is a toxic mix of pedantry and tactical naivety - as so often seen among precotious fifteen - year - olds, but in this case carefully hidden within a typically dull metholodgy section in a paper.

VP: You continue to dance around the substance of my criticism, most lately with gratuitous displays of professorial pedantry.

At more than just risking pedantry I'll reply.

Ray yes Spencer and Monckton are using pedantry to allow them to say something that is technically true (we can only look at observed temperatures in the rear view mirror) to make a claim that isn't true «we don't know whether it is warming or cooling».

Stating that «most atheists are really agnostics» because they have not found «proof» of the absence of a god smacks of logical and scientific pedantry.

This is neither pedantry nor semantics.

You will then, rightfully, gouge out your own eyes in frustration at my pedantry and tell me, again, to go read the Wikipedia article on steady state as a theoretical construct conducive to tractable analysis of thermodynamic physical systems.

You did a good job of filtering out most of Lord Monkton's pompous pedantry.

During the last 9 months, the first author has been subject to numerous requests for correspondence and other documents, including trivial pedantry such as the precise time and date stamps of blog posts.

A minor pedantry — but better correct irrelevant errors than leave them for the trolls to crow over — the organisation you call the British Arctic Survey» is actually called the British Antarctic Survey.

Pedantry aside, it is hard to work out what this «new understanding» is, and what its effect on the outcome of global warming actually is.

But I am supersenstive to this issue of writing on blogs, where carelessness and lack of pedantry can result in threadjacking.

I, too, despise pedantry.

His latest heap of obfuscating pedantry @ 308 has been swept away and the ground duly cleansed many times before.

Given the expert pedantry on display and the lack of willingness to actually understand, I think it is probably possible to describe it in a manner that some here wouldn't be able to criticise.

Even a creative leaning can be more useful than the near - pedantry of a legally trained draftsperson.

And I do appreciate that pedantry is not my most attractive quality!

It would be easy to blame my lack of imagination, a pedantry about what is possible («maybe this boy should become a lawyer when he grows up»).

I'd like to engage in a bit of pedantry for a moment and question whether that's an appropriate characterization of Google's offering.