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• this also means that the 9-volt is the only battery in the grocery stores that is actually a *battery*, i.e. a plurality of separate cells working together, rather than a single cell. you can make a lot of friends in the world by saying, "i don't like to be pedantic, but that AA really isn't a battery, you know; just a cell. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
• Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
• I had the same middle parted haircut for eight years, and I was quite pedantic about this being perfect.
• Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
• She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me. Broken Music, A Memoir
• Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
• Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull. An East Wind Coming
• This form of pedantry is a favorite of the far right, for some reason. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate
• The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants. The Books of the New Testament
• Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you … or else it is nothing, an empty journalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations. A ringing endorsement ...