Sentences with phrase «sounds pedantic»

MoMA's title, «Object Matter,» sounds pedantic by comparison, but that, too, may have a point.

Experience is vital, too, but it can be a double - edged sword: too much, and the representative may sound pedantic or condescending; too little, and the representative won't know how to handle delicate situations.

I was the first to congratulate Jez on getting the 35 nominations, so I hope this doesn't sound pedantic, but.

Swicord's gift as a screenwriter is that her catch - up summaries avoid sounding pedantic or like CliffsNotes.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, or doing myself out of future nods for my contribution, strictly speaking, a ghostwriter is not really an editor at all.

Without sounding pedantic, I'd like to revise the claim of «social object» as one first expressed by Jyri Engestrom in PhD research that I read more than three years ago.

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.

Not exact matches

If it all sounds a touch pedantic for a company that builds smartphones, recall that Jobs credited part of the original Mac's success on his decision to study calligraphy at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

'» This half - hearted attempt to pass this theological transformation off as a form of wooden textual redaction sounds like the type of pedantic scholarship from which Alter is supposed to save us.

If this all sounds a little tedious and pedantic — as Dollhouse occasionally managed to be — it's not.

A great geologist, a sound scientist, a good friend, a superb speaker and illustrator, the sort of pedantic editor I appreciate, and good company.

This sounds horribly pedantic, but to understand what is happening you have to make distinctions between the type of publications we are talking about: textboots, casebooks, and treatises.