Sentences with phrase «of pedantic»

So the point of this pedantic post is this: Take one last, hard look at your legal writing before sending it off to the rest of the legal world.

«The intermittent musings of a pedantic public defender.»

A great geologist, a sound scientist, a good friend, a superb speaker and illustrator, the sort of pedantic editor I appreciate, and good company.

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 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.

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).

Is this for some kind of pedantic reference exercise?

While she shops and hangs on the words of a pedantic old college friend (Michael Sheen), romantic Gil prowls the streets, dreaming of his favorite writers from the 1920s doing the same.

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

Bringing in a flock of pedantic regulators can't eliminate risk; it just creates other problems while eroding people's liberty.

'» 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.

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.

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.

If it all sounds a touch pedantic for a company that builds smartphones, recall that Jobs credited part of the original Mac's success on his decision to study calligraphy at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

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

De Castro's new Yahoo colleagues got a full dose of his strange locution at the company's annual sales meeting, in early 2013, when he berated his sales force with a rangy, pedantic speech.

Steve noticed this overly pedantic approach when some students in his classes would go through the motions of customer development without understanding the purpose behind it.

This pedantic focus on the name distracts from the fact that smart beta might just be one of the most meaningful developments in the investment landscape of this decade.

In either case my message gets lost, whether through pedantic communication or through a muddle of empty verbiage.

This year's renewal of the usually pedantic «Keep Christ in Christmas» discourse had a few interesting twists.

I would enjoy reading more of your stuff, but it would have to be less pedantic in the way it is written, if it was, I think you would receive an even larger audience.

The scenes on Bloksberg are utterly pedantic compared to this demonic lust, a lust to lose oneself in order to evaporate in a potentiation, so that a person is outside of himself, does not really know what he is doing or what he is saying or who it is or what it is speaking through him, while the blood rushes faster, the eyes glitter and stare fixedly, the passions boil, lusts seethe.

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.

The question is not important, however, at this stage, and it would be both academic and pedantic to make a point of it.

Communication is much more than pedantic understanding of grammar and kindness and understanding are essential to productive exchange of ideas.

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.

When the choir, instead of making «a joyful noise unto the Lord,» seems simply to make a noise, when the prayer is verbose and effusive or lifeless and pedantic, when the sermon has little in it to nourish mind or spirit, to worship vitally in church requires great inner resources.

The field of biblical studies often tends toward the insular and pedantic.

(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.».

So while the present work is introductory in nature, I shall try to maintain a scholarly level of discussion without being overly pedantic.

Shape the paste into little balls the size of large marbles (I was pedantic and made mine 20g each just because I have electronic scales!).

When a friend asked him the other day how it felt to own the most successful racing stable in 1959, he looked briefly but sharply at his questioner, then gave one of the rather pedantic answers for which he is noted.

Pedantic on my part but in this era of FM18 does that not change the landscape compared to how you present the picture?

In that 1 period of play Costa made 2 elbows, 2 face pushes, a chest barge, a scratch (to the neck at that) and if we're pedantic a slap on the back and a swipe.

But the fact that he just finished his seventh consecutive round at the top of the leaderboard of the biggest tournament in the world, and we are talking about the speed in which he played these holes seems so incredibly pedantic.

If I was being highly pedantic after a great win i would have to be critical of ospina... Not that he was a headless sheza, or he made stupid decisions..

There is of course a lot to be said for the «speculate to accumulate» line of thinking, and our owners always need to bear that in mind and not be too narrow and pedantic about the club being fully self - financing.

Also, if kids really did complain, those kids are pedantic jerks who should use their NHS talents to fight unjust dress codes instead of using them to knock down successful peers.

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.

Of course, you don't need to be extremely pedantic.

Arguing over pedantic details in the face of a real problem strengthens Trump's hand.

I have blogged a short round - up of reactions to the piece (and offering some pedantic political history for the benefit of Mr Iain Dale)

It really is pedantic, some of it.»

Call me pedantic but surely a majority government should be formed along the lines of who is best suited to deal with the immediate crisis?

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.

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

All of this jargon separates into unique, if not pedantic, definitions.

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

The connection between intellect and emotion is neat and natural, and Game Control is admirably free of stilted dialogue or pedantic narrative.

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