Sentences with phrase «overly pedantic»

But maybe I'm being overly pedantic here?»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Although didacticism was historically intentional in genres such as the spiritual allegory or moral treatise, the term is used today to describe writing that is «ostentatiously dull and erudite,» or in other words, overly preachy or pedantic.