Sentences with phrase «pedantic about»

Wotts — It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

I just think you're being a little pedantic about how you're defining feedback.

Of course that doesn't prevent me from being pedantic about it:)

I'm just being pedantic about adjectives!

(Then again, so would be leaving the comma and quotation marks off of the thought directive, but I can only be needlessly pedantic about one thing at a time.)

One thing to be extremely pedantic about is the presentation of your art / image on the site itself.

The professor is very pedantic about assignment writings.

The ones who are pedantic about the font choice, the errors, the resolution and general quality of releases.

But again, his fates not in her hands, I just would question... I suppose I'm being pedantic about phrasing.

I hoped the performance and the integrity of that would be the most important thing to her, and it was... She's very strong - willed, as am I. I'm pretty pedantic about sticking to the script and making sure it's all word for word.

I admit I can be too pedantic about this, as I should accept cinematic adaptations as their own beasts.

But with a cheaper airline they may get pedantic about it, which would be a major downer.

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.

I said that I dislike buying individual stocks and they adviser started being very pedantic about how I already invest in stocks through vanguard index funds.

Not exact matches

The illustration is no less «pedantic» than describing Schrödinger's cat to a layman who knows nothing about physics.

«We just make this assumption that if you're in San Francisco everyone knows everything about beans, and they're intrigued, but people are afraid to look at these ingredients because they don't want to look stupid,» Sando says «We approach them from a less pedantic aspect, and more like, «Look at this neat thing I found in Mexico!»»

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.

The rules about age are pedantic and arbitrary.

There are obvious limitations to the written word: On the page, it'd be difficult to indicate the same snippet of Vivaldi playing in Dr. Larry's operating theatre and during Cindy's body scan (in both scenarios, women are being wilfully artificialized) without looking like a dilettante — yet nothing about Crichton's pedantic prose suggests he is capable of such a poignant motif.

The movie should be about the players and their journey, but when the story pulls away to talk about the historical events, the film becomes prosaic and pedantic.

But it's hardly an ugly game already... People complaining about the look are being pedantic... It's set in Hyrule people!

What struck me about some of my magnificent teachers and was emblazoned in my mind what kind of teacher I wanted to be was their mastery of allowing and encouraging civic dialogue without being pedantic or one - sided.

That can seem pedantic, but only because the conventional wisdom about the value of manufacturing spend on hotel co-branded credit cards is roughly correct (Starwood, Hilton, and Wyndham are pretty good, the others are very bad).

I stopped expecting quality news and analysis from the sites that submit their materials here, because they're all in it for the clicks and only care about breaking news first, no matter how pedantic or worthless it actually is — spin, spin spin.

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).

Except for diehards, the pleasure police, October magazine, pedantic curators, and those last few Greenbergian critics who still insist that if painting isn't about itself it's washed up, no one thinks painting is dead.

I just don't care about the pedantics on this.

Talk about pedantic.

Anyway why the pointless pedantic bickering about the Kaya identity?

Being a bit pedantic but in the Sarah in Michigan montage, she is carrying a placard that shows an illustration of an atom but the text talks about a photon.

Too bad teens, if they opt to suffer the insultingly - named SmogGobs, will have find more pedantic ways to learn about geothermal, biofuel, waste to energy, biomass, hydrogen and fuel cells, or — gasp!

There's nothing hard to understand about that and any objections that it's not a 100 % accurate analogy are pretty much pedantic.

I know my interpretation is pedantic, but that is why I asked about simply not answering questions asked by the officer, rather then playing the game by turning the question back on them.

It may seem pedantic to talk about operators and specificity, but it does sometimes help to narrow the results to a manageable number.

This sounds horribly pedantic, but to understand what is happening you have to make distinctions between the type of publications we are talking about: textboots, casebooks, and treatises.

Not having to worry about the pedantic functions of Microsoft Word can shave hours off of your total composition time.