Sentences with phrase «pedantry in»

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.

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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.

I have often thought that in the old monkish poverty - worship, in spite of the pedantry which infested it, there might be something like that moral equivalent of war which we are seeking.

In another, it slips into pedantry and judgementalism - a leftie version of Mary Whitehouse.

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.

But on the whole, Tuesday's press conference was clearly conceived in reaction to the perceived inadequacies of the 2011 affair, correcting last year's under - explanation by plunging into laborious pedantry.

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

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.

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».

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.

But I am supersenstive to this issue of writing on blogs, where carelessness and lack of pedantry can result in threadjacking.

Given the expert pedantry on display and the lack of willingness to actually understand, I think it is probably possible to describe it in a manner that some here wouldn't be able to criticise.

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.