Sentences with phrase «pedantic for»

Those who insist it's not an investment are correct in the strict sense of the word's definition, but pedantic for the fact in practice, the prepayment is a choice to be considered alongside other investment choices.

Lowth's ideas pleased the class conscious because his rules were too pedantic for the lower classes to adopt.

He manages to go through everything for beginners while also not being boring or pedantic for more advanced users.

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.

Not exact matches

While it's not clear to me that it matters, given my pedantic obsession with eliminating the hyphen in words like startup and email, it'll be fun — at least for me — to see where it goes.

A cautionary tale for pedantic professors!

Theologians are not pedantic people who go apart and devise schemes to complicate life, for everybody is a theologian.

A bit pedantic on my part, but if someone who knows Korean is searching for a pork recipe, given your tags on this post, they might miss your site - which would be too bad, since as I say, your recipe is both good and authentic.

Sorry to be pedantic, but this recipe is for Cottage Pie not Shepherds Pie, which is made with minced LAMB.

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.

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.

We sing the song, we relish as Brainy is thrown into the woods for his pedantic rants, and we hope Azrael never eats anybody.

But assuming that women who bottle - feed are just ignorant and don't know any better is pedantic and undermines not only their intelligence, but the choice that they made for their own bodies.

Sorry to seem a bit pedantic but also if i were to use a blank copper or brass or sterling silver circle disc and for instance hammer it, stamp words on it with metal letter stamps, oxidise it and add beads and charm would that be classed as an original design then?

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)

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.

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

And forgive me for being pedantic but it's funny sometimes when people misuse words.

I hope you don't think I am being super pedantic but you missed out the «R» in your title for «Laundry»:)

Slow and pedantic adventure which isn't a good advert for the genre.

So is it Giamatti or Adams himself who will make viewers wish for a swifter and less pedantic version on the History Channel?

The trailer for his latest, Youth, angles it as both an emotional and a pedantic experience.

If Green ultimately takes too much pride in his hipster references (however nostalgic I got seeing the 2001-esque United Artists logo that used to scare the bejesus out of me as a child, it's self - conscious whims like these that make Undertow sometimes feel superficially invested), the presence of the generally indifferent Bell has a neutralizing effect on Green's tendency towards the pedantic, and the director's championing of old - school values — his dislike of ADR, his fondness for found locations — once again inspires lonely but hearty cries of solidarity.

I loved Amy Poehler's impression of Brit actors doing an American accent in a pedantic, emphatic bass growl, the announcement that Wes Anderson arrived at the ceremony «on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts» and the fact that Boyhood «proves that there are still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you are under 40».

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.

The dramatic conflict is real because as Samantha begins thinking and feeling for herself, and grows closer to Theodore, he begins making the same judgments and pedantic criticisms of her that affected his previous relationship.

Woody Allen's Café Society is a sweet, sad, insubstantial jeu d'ésprit, watchable, charming and beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro — yet always freighted with a pedantic nostalgia for the 1930s golden age in both Hollywood and New York, nostalgia which the title itself rather coercively announces.

Kellams has gone so far as to lash out at fans on Twitter, accusing them of «pedantic port - begging» and mocking them for their messages.

, another pedantic making - of doc that finds the cast and crew patting themselves on the back for being a part of something so gosh - darn irreverent.

Well, it may seem pedantic to you, but the difference between layoffs and firings is important, especially in that the latter is for cause.

Some of the more arcane aspects of Group A regulations, such as the need for standard production door cards and dashboards, must have seemed a bit pedantic to the teams and engineers, but now they add to the charm and the relevance of the car.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, or doing myself out of future nods for my contribution, strictly speaking, a ghostwriter is not really an editor at all.

Being very pedantic, formatting errors can really ruin the reading experience for me.

Is this for some kind of pedantic reference exercise?

If we had been very pedantic, we would have used two different units of «currency» for houses, for example HOA for quantity of House A, and HOB for quantity of House B.

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.

Rumour has it that the contract only allows for distribution via physical CDs and MP3 downloads rather than Youtube videos (or something else as equally pedantic), but we can't find any confirmation for that outside of various third party tweets and forum comments.

That's because for the most part, they're usually kind of uninteresting to all but the most pedantic fans and followers, with the average update being nothing more than a few bug fixes to increase stability.

To be fair on the battle royal thing (or to be pedantic) the miss wrestlemania br was for a tiara and won by a bloke.

While these notes might risk being pedantic and even academic, I believe they are relevant to the controversies around the confusing critical vocabulary used to describe Kline's prodigious late career paintings for which he is now famous.

The tragedy is that a long - ago 1970s row has made it somehow necessary for all good aesthetic liberals to defend this minor, pedantic, morose triviality.

In a review for ARTnews, Grimes wrote in the Times, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter called her work «traditional and radical,» describing her paintings as «broad and bright, considered without being fussy, thoughtful but never pedantic.»

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.

Better term for this use would be thermal energy, but understand the need not to be too pedantic.

I've added an «ed» for you pedantic flaming whiners like yourself, but the right way is to simply ask nicely.

If we're forced to wash our laundry we may as well use Daz brilliant white... so be inanely pedantic in the details so that you minimise the angles for attack.

Not to be pedantic, but «Popular Science» is a «popular science magazine» for a general audience, while «Scientific American» is similar, but a bit more serious with many scientists as guest authors over the years - including Albert Einstein.

I hate to be pedantic (no, I lie: I love to be pedantic), but that should be «English for science majors who really need to learn how to write.»

There are some other articles related to AGW on wiki that are far too brief as well, but yes that one is decent for a start, although I see several instances where people may misinterpret it, but that may me being pedantic.