Sentences with phrase «too pedantic»

Perhaps too pedantic a point, but it often gets overlooked.

Better term for this use would be thermal energy, but understand the need not to be too pedantic.

Not to get too pedantic here, but the art schools are full of women, and the art world is full of men.

Lowth's ideas pleased the class conscious because his rules were too pedantic for the lower classes to adopt.

I admit I can be too pedantic about this, as I should accept cinematic adaptations as their own beasts.

Surprisingly, this is the first nonfiction film to tackle the subject and Miller manages to find the parallels to contemporary times without being too pedantic or heavy - handed.

Not exact matches

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.

By the way your article is much too long and pedantic.

A bit pedantic on my part, but if someone who knows Korean is searching for a pork recipe, given your tags on this post, they might miss your site - which would be too bad, since as I say, your recipe is both good and authentic.

As far as I'm concerned, every backslide is traceable to Arsene Wenger: he's very pedantic, too frugal to compete and lacks modern football tactics.

There is of course a lot to be said for the «speculate to accumulate» line of thinking, and our owners always need to bear that in mind and not be too narrow and pedantic about the club being fully self - financing.

Don't you love how pedantic they can be when it is convenient... and how wishy - washy when they need that too... Consistency is obviously not key!!!

Bernard Woolley, the prime minister's principal private secretary, is as pedantic as ever, objecting to mixed metaphors and taking everything far too literally.

She has to say one pedantic line after another, and overall, the narrator's part is just too wordy.

A little pedantic in some spots and a little too expository in others, The Insider still intrigues with its often dreamlike — or nightmarish — brand of POV filmmaking.

If Green ultimately takes too much pride in his hipster references (however nostalgic I got seeing the 2001-esque United Artists logo that used to scare the bejesus out of me as a child, it's self - conscious whims like these that make Undertow sometimes feel superficially invested), the presence of the generally indifferent Bell has a neutralizing effect on Green's tendency towards the pedantic, and the director's championing of old - school values — his dislike of ADR, his fondness for found locations — once again inspires lonely but hearty cries of solidarity.

This title has a pun which is probably too weirdly pedantic even to count as groanworthy: an immediate, contemporary war being fought on the issue of electrical current.

Be too dry and pedantic with the mind - numbing terms and figures necessary to cast light on the fiasco, and risk an agonizingly dull mishmash.

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

This painting of paintings is the densest and most meta work in the show, an outlier, but manages to reference itself as art without coming across as too heady or pedantic.

There are some other articles related to AGW on wiki that are far too brief as well, but yes that one is decent for a start, although I see several instances where people may misinterpret it, but that may me being pedantic.

Too bad teens, if they opt to suffer the insultingly - named SmogGobs, will have find more pedantic ways to learn about geothermal, biofuel, waste to energy, biomass, hydrogen and fuel cells, or — gasp!