Sentences with phrase «pedantic point»

But I write to make a pedantic point which I think to be important.

Perhaps too pedantic a point, but it often gets overlooked.

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.

[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.

Not exact matches

The question is not important, however, at this stage, and it would be both academic and pedantic to make a point of it.

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.

Most of the priorities were actually a pedantic list of familiar talking points, including professional development, standards, ensuring an «equitable distribution» of good teachers, and so on.

MoMA's title, «Object Matter,» sounds pedantic by comparison, but that, too, may have a point.

However, my pedantic side obliges me to point out that the Gulf Stream is a predominantly wind - driven western boundary current that moves up from the Gulf of Mexico along the US coast to Cape Hatteras, at which point it heads off into the central Atlantic (see also this letter by Carl Wunsch).

This may seem pedantic, but it's an important point: there is a warmest year on record.

I'm only being pedantic because heat affects thermometers, and you have rightly pointed out one factor that affects the amount of heat to which thermometers are exposed.

So the point of this pedantic post is this: Take one last, hard look at your legal writing before sending it off to the rest of the legal world.