Sentences with phrase «of pedantry»

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.

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

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.

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

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 pox of pedantry is absent from its pages.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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»).

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.