Sentences with phrase «pedantry as»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The trick here is a toxic mix of pedantry and tactical naivety - as so often seen among precotious fifteen - year - olds, but in this case carefully hidden within a typically dull metholodgy section in a paper.

You will then, rightfully, gouge out your own eyes in frustration at my pedantry and tell me, again, to go read the Wikipedia article on steady state as a theoretical construct conducive to tractable analysis of thermodynamic physical systems.

During the last 9 months, the first author has been subject to numerous requests for correspondence and other documents, including trivial pedantry such as the precise time and date stamps of blog posts.