Sentences with phrase «pedantic in»

Jeez I'm getting pedantic in my old age.

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.

A little pedantic in some spots and a little too expository in others, The Insider still intrigues with its often dreamlike — or nightmarish — brand of POV filmmaking.

I would enjoy reading more of your stuff, but it would have to be less pedantic in the way it is written, if it was, I think you would receive an even larger audience.

It's swifter than the pedantic in addition, comma, or furthermore, comma, or comma, moreover, comma.

Or am I being pedantic in the overstatement of their mandate to do as they wish without elector endorsement?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

De Castro's new Yahoo colleagues got a full dose of his strange locution at the company's annual sales meeting, in early 2013, when he berated his sales force with a rangy, pedantic speech.

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.

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.

This pedantic focus on the name distracts from the fact that smart beta might just be one of the most meaningful developments in the investment landscape of this decade.

In either case my message gets lost, whether through pedantic communication or through a muddle of empty verbiage.

This year's renewal of the usually pedantic «Keep Christ in Christmas» discourse had a few interesting twists.

The scenes on Bloksberg are utterly pedantic compared to this demonic lust, a lust to lose oneself in order to evaporate in a potentiation, so that a person is outside of himself, does not really know what he is doing or what he is saying or who it is or what it is speaking through him, while the blood rushes faster, the eyes glitter and stare fixedly, the passions boil, lusts seethe.

if, like Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch, one sees a pedantic old scholar engaged in useless research as the Milton of his age, one is bound to be disillusioned.

equality: «we» may indeed say that gays are equal... but do «they» [the «nay - sayers, if you like, as I don't want to use labels that don't work as in «fundamentalists», «conservatives», or even «liberals» — these terms have been hijacked and reinterpreted to mean something far from their original intent... sorry — pedantic me?!]

In this sweet and simple story, Mia's kindness toward the old man and little boy (subtly hinted at as being St. Nick and the Christ child) demonstrates, without being moralistic or pedantic, the true spirit of Christmas giving.

When the choir, instead of making «a joyful noise unto the Lord,» seems simply to make a noise, when the prayer is verbose and effusive or lifeless and pedantic, when the sermon has little in it to nourish mind or spirit, to worship vitally in church requires great inner resources.

(When you state that «Therefore, in this moment everything, including the thoughts in your head and the things that you do must necessarily be completely outside of your control and completely predetermined by the pedantic and purposeless meandering of existence.».

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

«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!»»

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.

Pedantic on my part but in this era of FM18 does that not change the landscape compared to how you present the picture?

In that 1 period of play Costa made 2 elbows, 2 face pushes, a chest barge, a scratch (to the neck at that) and if we're pedantic a slap on the back and a swipe.

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.

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.

Being pedantic I don't hink they had red cards in those days, the refs just pointed and off they went, like naughty schoolboys being sent to the headmaster.

In addition, we have a President who has been easily portrayed by his opponents as a champion of Big Government, determined to trample on individual freedoms (as well as pedantic and elitist), while Michelle Obama is portrayed as harsh and militant.

[spelling pedant] Rachael, it's remuneration, not renumeration [/ spelling pedant] As a further pedantic point, all commerce is casino capitalism, in that risks must be borne in order to get reward.

Arguing over pedantic details in the face of a real problem strengthens Trump's hand.

Hate to be pedantic but Mandelson was elected in 1992 and in the Cabinet in 1998.

This seems rather elementary, perhaps even a bit pedantic, but you might be surprised at how many people work in jobs that have little overlap with the skills they have and like to use.

Kandel: It's a pedantic point and that is the biology of the mind suggests that there is a limited set of functions that's localized at a particular point in the brain; while mind refers to the whole family of mental processes, every thought that you have, every feeling that you express, every dream that you aspire to, and it works on the assumption that these are going to be localized in a variety of each one of these functions, it's going to be localized in a variety of different areas in the brain.

You missed the «is» in: «Some bloggers would have written «to pedantic» which a misuse of the language that drives me batty!»

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

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.

While the set - up that Cooper does in «Out of the Furnace» might seem pedantic and unnecessary at first, it helps set the mood and the scene.

The game will automate the drawing of floors and walls if you want it to, so it's not quite as pedantic as earlier entries in the series, but to us at least that feels like cheating.

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».

In the end, The Imitation Game simply can not live up to the inherent drama of the story it's trying to tell, coming across as far more frivolous and pedantic than it should have been.

Instead, it's the scenes in which we see her trying to appease her colleagues — discomfitingly pedantic exchanges, the banal back - and - forth that other movies leave out.

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.

While some will criticize his use of vérité - style shaky camerawork on scenes in set the districts and in the games themselves as pedantic, that touch adds flavor and distinction to these proceedings.

Paul (Michael Sheen), an insufferably pedantic friend of Inez who is in Paris with his wife (Nina Arianda) to lecture at the Sorbonne, declares that «nostalgia is denial.»

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

The 1920s sequences are shot in flickering black - and - white, a slightly pedantic insistence on the silent movie age.

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.