Sentences with word «pedant»

But there's plenty of room on this disc, so I can't understand why Warner doesn't make the purists and tedious pedants in the audience happy by giving us a lossless mono version we can embrace.

In a perfect world, pedants like MARodger would eventually resist the temptation to continually mix nitpicks with ad hominems and actually make an effort to understand the point being made.

Pedants from crappy schools who haven't studied actual hard science with the best in the field (DNA / organic / organic / nano - tech, materials chemistry in my case) don't know how to go back and check the input data to see if the conclusions taken from them even pass the laugh test, which they do not.

Green highlights denote that it's an Xbox One - specific headset, although pedants might quibble that it's a more yellowy green than the one Microsoft uses.

Part of the problem is educators» adherence to traditional thinking, and schools» reliance on pedants rather than innovators to deliver entrepreneurship education, Blank says.

Newman underscored Hoffman's crotchety pedant with a wry, grumpy theme and generally added levity but also a wistful, nostalgic hue in more tender moments — all on solo piano, which he performed.

With this I just added a small sparkly pedant necklace and these adorable shoes.

These three «errors» only scratch the surface of the article, which covers other common bugbears of language pedants, including further vs. farther, nauseated vs. nauseous, and the so - called misuse of literally.

He might also have traced it to Socrates, another outmoded pedant who, evidently, can teach us nothing at all.

He has a well - defined group of obstructionists in his sights: those professorial pedants involved only in their tiny and irrelevant research projects, or worse in no research projects at all.

The voluble pedants» such as the father in Fima, addicted to explicating the «point» of his lengthy anecdotes» recall Oz's father.

I'd say I «know», but not in the way you are saying here, so I won't play pedant.

I want to lol at that comment, but my Inner Pedant is screaming «Helium is an element, not a drug».

According to Sullivan's hyperventilating prose, Hendra's memoir strikes a blow against the «petty, ecclesiastically fixated pedants now so beloved by Rome.»

And it's such a nice surprise to see proper grace - iced cupcakes, after all the giant buttercream - topped muffins everywhere (sorry, I'm a cupcake pedant!).

Sorry to be an Italian pedant, I just thought it might be of interest!

So she got a necklace with a jade - coloured pedant, put it on, got a photo of President Xi and good fortune did come to her.

The downside will be that it will upset pedants, which is also an upside.

PS — as the resident pedant, please can we refer to Usmanov as «the Uzbeki» or «Jabba»?

Next Left does have a tendency to (very slightly) oversimplify the discussion of political philosophers, in a way that as a terrible pedant I find mildly annoying.

But over to the dramatis personae, beginning with disappointed pedant Alastair Campbell.

For jewellery, a longer pedant style necklace would work well to break up the expanse of one material on the dress, and add interest to an otherwise one - dimensional look.

Stunning cone pedants (similar on sale now) echo the steel of the beautiful surrounding windows, all within a crisp white palette.

Though it would take a purist pedant to legitimately lament the evolution of colour stock as a negative turning point in film history, there's no doubt something was lost in Technicolor's takeover as monochrome movies moved from mainstream to niche, and the basic joy of black and white became impossible to appreciate without express attention.

My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10 - year - olds.

BMW pedants will dock the new engine for being neither as smooth nor as sonorous as the outgoing inline six, but it pulls harder and should deliver better fuel economy.

Road performance is acceptable to all but the most exacting automotive pedant.

Avoid pedants and people who need to be right.

Therefore, to do her justice — I should point out here that mum was an absolute pedant when it came to research and getting things absolutely right — and to continue her remarkable legacy without public outcries of «Shame!»

As magicians Strange and Norrell — the first in possession of abundant natural, effortless but undirected talent, and the second something of a scholarly pedant — attempt to bring magic back to England, Clarke brings magic back to the world of literary fiction.

This is where the grumpy pedant is let out of their cage to maul the manuscript.

If you are Very Serious About Screen Quality (aka a Pixel Pedant), it might be worth looking for a refurbished iPad Air 2.

You can also share highlighted text as well as add it to the Notes and Marks sections — ideal for students and pedants alike.

I freely admit that I'm overthinking like a blithering pedant who's two decades older than the intended target audience, but Spiral House score an own goal from the off and alienate animal lovers in the process.

Gaming pedants (or former game magazine editors) may not like this issue quite as much, though: It spells the name of the Ninja Gaiden hero «Ryu Hyabusa» once.

He had some of the pigheadedness of the autodidact, and in his writing he could be a bit of a bore — a modern pedant in the nearly hundred - page - long appendix to The Art of Painting, where he repeats over and over again more or less the same rather arid analyses of triangular or rectilinear structures, linear patterns, and color harmonies.

«It's the fucking pedants that make me want to kill...