Sentences with phrase «into pedantry»

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

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

At other times, this shades into pedantry.

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

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

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

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.

Instead of addressing Posner's challenge directly, the appeals court instead dives deep into legal pedantry and turf - guarding: it quibbles at length over recondite rules, but never addresses the larger questions of efficiency and incentives that hat the patent system is supposed to regulate.