Sentences with word «pedantry»

I'd like to engage in a bit of pedantry for a moment and question whether that's an appropriate characterization of Google's offering.

The issue, then, is deeper than a student's grade, a distinguished preacher's embarrassment, an undistinguished preacher's pretensions, or a homiletics professor's pedantry in drawing a crooked line of definition between plagiarism and legitimate borrowing.

Unless we do this we are likely, on the one hand, to fall into a barren and sterile pedantry as we try to dissect it, or on the other to become dogmatic and intolerant toward those who have interpretations differing from our own.

Pedantry aside, it is hard to work out what this «new understanding» is, and what its effect on the outcome of global warming actually is.

This is not just semantic pedantry, it gets to the heart of what effective modern leaders do - they broaden perspective, and they facilitate a flow of ideas through shared inquiry.

«We will put ourselves forward always for what we are, simply and without false humility, as well as without pedantry, affectation, or pride.»

At this point, maybe I should've pointed him to the trailer featuring an aggressive, hulking, and thoroughly monstrous Thunderjaw, but I thought it best to refrain from such pedantry when in conversation with a respected and knowledgeable scholar.

(And yes, I know, I may be accused of pedantry here; I'm certainly not opposed to theological poetics.

In order not to get too bogged down in lexical pedantry I've deferred to each individual restaurant's usage in the timeline below.

But even a stickler like me can admit, some folks just take the grammar pedantry too far.

Always the same pedantry.

That sense of marvelous absurdity and incredulous, wide - eyed wonder that attaches itself to great surprises, sudden amazements and comic twists, seems to get lost in the prosaic thickness of theological pedantry.

Add to that private spiritual confirmation and various types of epistemological safeties, and I don't see any need to satisfy other people's pedantry by prefixing every statement in my worldview with «I believe...».

In the history of education the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

Your name, thanks to George Eliot, has become a byword for dryasdust pedantry and pseudomonastic self - absorption.

Calling it Cottage Pie in the title is my way of letting those afflicted with recipe naming pedantry that, yes, I do know it isn't Shepherd's Pie.

Even the most effervescent and entertaining of voices is dragged down into a claggy gray pit of miserable pedantry.

manages to turn pedantry and tedium into gameplay elements and in the process crafts an experience that will likely be among the most memorable games you've played this year.

Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.

Here is an oddity: intriguing and yet weirdly exasperating, like a sentimental tribute, or a one - joke epic, or a monomaniacal act of stylistic pedantry.

Few cars arouse passions and pedantry like the M3, and the E30 vs. E-whatever debates can be endless, circuitous, and maddening.

The best possible way to make use of traditional mode of writing for global cause is to discard pedantry and to inculcate the elements of modernity, i.e., the style of writing which suits the taste of the readers in the modern society.

There are more petty gripes I could express about the game, but it would very easily spills over into mere pedantry.

The careful arrangement of the exhibition evokes the sharpness of the subject; whilst a cocaine binge might be seen as excess or libertinism, the meticulous construction of the exhibition betrays more pedantry than debauchery.

(No pedantry intended.

Mistakes last, but pedantry kills.

Ray yes Spencer and Monckton are using pedantry to allow them to say something that is technically true (we can only look at observed temperatures in the rear view mirror) to make a claim that isn't true «we don't know whether it is warming or cooling».

Instead of addressing Posner's challenge directly, the appeals court instead dives deep into legal pedantry and turf - guarding: it quibbles at length over recondite rules, but never addresses the larger questions of efficiency and incentives that hat the patent system is supposed to regulate.

Chris Bryant over-hyped his own contribution, which amounted to little more than semantic pedantry.

Without pedantry, she has examined in turn the various ways of making marks on canvas in her inimitable, straight - edged, linear style.

At other times, this shades into pedantry.

The pox of pedantry is absent from its pages.

The Bible is a man - made random series of letters and philosophical treatises that refelect their authors politics, prejudices, pedantry and plain delusions too.

I have a stubborn streak that doesn't like being told what to do so I balk against the pedantry many people espouse regarding baking.