This form of pedantry is a favorite of the far right, for some reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate] Reference
So, thank goodness for the modest, the didactic, the people who secretly revel in pedantry and exactitude. From Wordnik.com. [How To Change The World « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
Pedant - first rule of pedantry is to make sure that your post is perfect and to understand that the spellchecker is, like us all, fallible. From Wordnik.com. [Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
I distinguish this from my pedantry, which is the best sort of pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate] Reference
(I distinguish this from my pedantry, which is the best sort of pedantry.). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
And if that kind of knowledge be a trifle in itself, the pedantry is the greater. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding] Reference
His love of consistency betrays him, at times, into what may be termed the pedantry of costume. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
Every couple of months Matt baits us with this Alanis reference and invariably, it ends up in pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back] Reference
Out of this one principle of subtle and lurking antagonism, may be explained everything which has been denounced under the idea of pedantry in Milton. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
(Because the pedantry is the important part!) 2. From Wordnik.com. [kateelliott: Sense of Place] Reference
"That's the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put," - Winston Churchill, more or less. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
He had learning without pedantry, and wit without ill-nature. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Affectation and pedantry in style are now universally condemned. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
In extreme cases this may, of course, degenerate into mere pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The German novel was crushed under the weight of pedantry and pedagogy. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Foedric spoke with ease, and yet with entire absence of youthful pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
It is written with great talent, and comprehensive learning, but without pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
But Madame Dacier's enthusiasm was real, and unaccompanied by pedantry or conceit. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
It is graceful, and not burdened with mythological pedantry, but it lacks invention. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
This is the seed for a grand musical discourse and an opening for unchecked pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Wynton Marsalis Gets Kind Of Blue] Reference
An excessive regard for disused metaphor savours of pedantry: disregard is inelegant. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference
This has been received as a settled doctrine in bibliography; but it is utter pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
Our society is free from pedantry; and there -- no damage can result where no one's the wiser. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
It is flippancy or pedantry like this which gives rise to the onslaughts of a Cobden or Herbert. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The Master said, Matter outweighing art begets roughness; art outweighing matter begets pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
Such is "The New Life," -- a medley of passionate feeling, of vaguest narrative, of scholastic pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
A cultivated man of letters, an admirable scholar, he was as free from pedantry as he was incapable of idleness. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
But there was apt to be a shade of stiffness, and the conversation had sometimes too strong a flavor of pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
His style, sometimes defaced by affectation and pedantry, has a lively smartness not unfrequently rising into wit. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Yet, even though he had this marked regard for purity in literary style, no writer had more dislike of mere pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In point of style and general method of treating subjects, De Quincey's greatest faults are pedantry and discursiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He was bold, yet discreet; wise without pedantry; humble without religious affectation; firm without harshness; kind without weakness. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
She was teacher rather than artist; but no one could be farther from a bas bleu, or more severe upon pedantry or pretension of any sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
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