Sentences with phrase «seem pedantic»

Sorry to seem pedantic, Simon, but you can't really appreciate «The Tyger» without reading the companion poem in Blake's songs of innocence, «The Lamb»

It may seem pedantic to talk about operators and specificity, but it does sometimes help to narrow the results to a manageable number.

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

This may seem pedantic, but that article does not support the use of the word «will», read Connor's arcticle and it will be seen that there are plenty of qualifications that make clear this is not certain («would be» «may well have»).

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.

That can seem pedantic, but only because the conventional wisdom about the value of manufacturing spend on hotel co-branded credit cards is roughly correct (Starwood, Hilton, and Wyndham are pretty good, the others are very bad).

Well, it may seem pedantic to you, but the difference between layoffs and firings is important, especially in that the latter is for cause.

While the set - up that Cooper does in «Out of the Furnace» might seem pedantic and unnecessary at first, it helps set the mood and the scene.

Seems pedantic but hey, better to be clear than have people thinking you are paying people to read your book.

Today, everything within the walls of the art world, from the educational language spouted by museums to the highly intellectualized language of the critics seems pedantic and purple.

Not exact matches

When the choir, instead of making «a joyful noise unto the Lord,» seems simply to make a noise, when the prayer is verbose and effusive or lifeless and pedantic, when the sermon has little in it to nourish mind or spirit, to worship vitally in church requires great inner resources.

But the fact that he just finished his seventh consecutive round at the top of the leaderboard of the biggest tournament in the world, and we are talking about the speed in which he played these holes seems so incredibly pedantic.

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?

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.

It may seem a little pedantic to explain handles, hashtags, retweets, and the nuances of Twitter etiquette, but in my experience this summer, educators find it tremendously valuable to walk through a few Twittish to English and English to Twittish translations.

Some of the more arcane aspects of Group A regulations, such as the need for standard production door cards and dashboards, must have seemed a bit pedantic to the teams and engineers, but now they add to the charm and the relevance of the car.

Despite these excursions, the writing never seems forced, self - conscious, or pedantic.

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..

I'm not trying to sound pedantic here, but to tell you why as a reader, as a consumer, I need you to extend beyond what may seem obvious to you as a writer, or a a presenter.

It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

Wotts — It was just a comment and it does seem that much of the debate about this topic revolves around «philosophical arguments» or discussions that appear rather pedantic about some terminology, rather than actually discussing the science (not that philosophy and terminology aren't relevant, just that you don't prove that some science is wrong by simply quoting Popper — not that you did this though).

The problem is that requiring an Officer to explicitly inform every arrestee or detainee of the reason for the investigation seems to be pedantic, and in some situations unnecessary.