Sentences with phrase «pedantic with»

Be too dry and pedantic with the mind - numbing terms and figures necessary to cast light on the fiasco, and risk an agonizingly dull mishmash.

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As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent - teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns of a bunch of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out - of - control idiots.

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.

this is just pedantic and being clever with words.

Beginning piano lessons at age five, first with his mother, then with a demonically pedantic choir director, he would soon be playing Beethoven sonatas handily.

She is a pedantic self - rightious blowhard impressed with her own opinions.

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

Also our very pedantic daughter told us they were donuts, and who can argue with a stubborn two year old who is busy licking chocolate off as many treats as she can get her hands on?

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If i am being truly pedantic though, I might quibble with «we won't truly know until the season ends» etc..

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?

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

Call me pedantic but surely a majority government should be formed along the lines of who is best suited to deal with the immediate crisis?

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.

But even here he undermines his narrative with flabby, repetitious writing and pedantic digressions.

Vain, pedantic and with a broad amoral streak running right through her Pepsodent personality, she's Carver High's standout achiever, the kind of girl whose relentless overreaching affords her fellow students time to slack.

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.

The reason many cinephiles loathe, as much as love, the fall movie season and its attendant Oscar hype is movies like Little Children, a piece of melodramatic malarkey that carries itself with an air of profundity unjustified by its contrived, pedantic, and phony narrative and aesthetic spine.

It's a chamber piece with an obvious villain pegged straightaway, and an ending that's aloof instead of artful, and pedantic instead of climactic.

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.

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.»

Loaded with great performances and a smart script, Men, Women & Children is able to tap into the zeitgeist of our tech - obsessed culture yet it doesn't feel pedantic or forced.

This is common in first drafts, he says, when the writer's work is «littered with pointlessly pedantic derailments or instructional intrusion.»

Instead of baffling research paper reader with a pompous, pedantic presentation, custom papers writer gives a simple, straightforward, and dignified account of what took place in the study.

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.

Even since the release of Hyrule Historia, Nintendo really have made an effort to nail down their Zelda lore, with Skyword Sword capitalising on the new Zelda timeline («timelines» if you want to get pedantic) by being a prequel.

With references to abstract expressionism and the action painting of the 1960s, process rather than product is of central importance to West's work, a fact supported by the lengthy titles given to each film which act as thorough, even pedantic narrative accompaniments to the work, elucidating the abstract marks onscreen as the films are literally infused by the materials only through their titles.

While I see the educational sincerity behind this decision, these galleries come across as pedantic and simplistic, and they are laced with the rhetorical stuff that really annoyed these guys in the first place.

Now this may seem pedantic or irrelevant to some, but I think it's critical if climate scientists want lay people and politicians (and even deniers) to actually understand what you are trying to get across every time with clarity.

This may be a bit pedantic, but I take issue with the claim «[R] eanalyses are effectively the weather forecasts you would have got over the years if we had modern computers and models available».

Enough with the pedantics already — time to dig out the solar oven and get outside and cook!

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

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.

Well if you want to be pedantic, the spectral reflection coefficient might vary with temperature.

For many of us lawyers, producing or reviewing this kind of mediocre, pedantic writing comes with the job; it's just another day at the office, to quote a Supreme Court justice who's now garnering extensive media coverage for his literary legal prose.

Frustration at the turgid, pedantic, Latin - filled, jargon - ridden, misspelt, ungrammatical, and inelegant writing that issues from the pens and keyboards of lawyers, law students, and those who come within their orbit (assistants can have an unfortunate tendency to replicate the bad habits of those they work with).

They tend to be pedantic, largely meaningless, and they take up precious real estate on your single page of space that you need to use to fill with all of your relevant skills and qualifications.