How To Use Pedantry In A Sentence
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One of the professed objects of the Brook Farm association was, to escape from the evils of the great world, -- from the trickery of trade, the pedantry of colleges, the flunkyism of office, and the arrogant pretensions of wealth.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
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Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
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It has as its virtue the quality of being opposed to red tape, professionalism, departmentalism pedantry, officiousness, intolerance, lethargy, and the tyranny of custom; it has its dangers in that, resting as it does in the last resort on the personal and the concrete, it tends in ill-balanced minds to neglect the value of ancient and dear illusions, and to degenerate into chaos and caprice.
Personality in Literature
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As a director, his perfectionism / pedantry would have tested the patience of any producer.
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Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
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Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.
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Yet this monarch of all things detested pedantry, either as it shows itself in the mere form of Greek and Latin, or in ostentatious book-learning, or in the affectation of words of remote signification: these are the only points of view in which I have been taught to consider the meaning of the term pedantry, which is very indefinite, and always a relative one.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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There is much pedantry, but every so often there is stark beauty.
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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.
Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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To criticise animation for being too perfect may seem like pedantry and it's clear that a lot of work went into the film.
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Just to contribute my share of pedantry to the thread, I thought I'd note that such outside-the-calendar intervals are called epagomenal days.
The Volokh Conspiracy
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This stylistic approach may have been a ploy to attract a wider reading public, but historians should more often throw off the shackles of pedantry and learn to write and read history as literature.
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The book is a demonstration of scholarship without pedantry.
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You are indeed being pedantic, and while I'm a big fan of pedantry in its place, I try to write for the general reader, who would have no idea what "Inuktitut" means.
Languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER.
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(I distinguish this from my pedantry, which is the best sort of pedantry.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate
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Pedantry and intellectual theorising were not Basil's stock-in-trade; all such, he seemed to short circuit.
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Against the first objection, I hope to show in this chapter that the conceptual distinction is far from mere pedantry.
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Angelo's granite verses, weeded Lorenzo of disgustfulness, Politian of pedantry.
The Fool Errant
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Neither minded his pedantry, since he devoted most of it to church architecture, one of their favorite subjects.
ISAAC CAMPION
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A pedantry scholar saw ask: " Where is your brother?
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This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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So much pedantry is misplaced, and it is a waste of time to expect consistency from pedants, myself included, especially when they are hungry enough to consider compromising their pedantic principles.
So where can language snobs get their doughnuts? « Motivated Grammar
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Every couple of months Matt baits us with this Alanis reference and invariably, it ends up in pedantry.
Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
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So, thank goodness for the modest, the didactic, the people who secretly revel in pedantry and exactitude.
How To Change The World « Tales from the Reading Room
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And what of dignity or meaning could be said? where talking of sacred subjects is not allowed, under the pretext that it scatters those blessings which should be carefully treasured up; and bestowing much information concerning the secular plans of economy practiced by your own to the other sex is not approved; and where to talk of literary matters would be termed bombastic pedantry and small display, and would serve to exhibit accomplishments which might be enticingly dangerous.
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
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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’
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This form of pedantry is a favorite of the far right, for some reason.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate
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In a language so expressive as the English, I hate the pedantry of tagging or prefacing what I write with Latin scraps; and ever was a censurer of the motto-mongers among our weekly and daily scribblers.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He actually describes Addison, on the whole, as a 'dull prosaist,' and the patron of pedantry!
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
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Well-bred persons, abhorring the pedantry of the blues, are usually _anti - blues_, or _ultra-antis_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 09
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Medicine can no longer reproach me with being unfaithful: I've paid a proper tribute to erudition, and to what old writers call pedantry.
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Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
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Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
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More pedantry … my understanding is that the pet name for a recalcitrant recidivist is “scrote” (for “scrotum”) rather than “scroat”.
Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Humor likes to explode pretension, pedantry, dignity, pomposity; we get a feeling of joy whenever those who are superior come a cropper, which is increased when we feel that they have no right to their places.
The Foundations of Personality
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You ground your argument in linguistic logic, and the only refutation is pedantry.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
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Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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So scrupulous, and so close to perfect: that's the impression the reader is intended to glean from such exercises in pedantry.
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I have the thread of something in this pedantry, that may lead me out of this plague-pit.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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In was in that quarter, quia multum amavit, — because he loved much — that he was regarded as vulnerable by “serious men,” “grave persons” and “reasonable people”; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry.
Les Miserables
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But Sharp berated Neal over the perceived inaccuracies of their "hoydenish", boisterous dancing, while she in turn accused him of pedantry.
Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
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As a director, his perfectionism / pedantry would have tested the patience of any producer.
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There was a hint of pedantry in his elegant style of speaking.
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Every couple of months Matt baits us with this Alanis reference and invariably, it ends up in pedantry. ur_land says:
Matthew Yglesias » Census Conspiracies Strike Back
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There was a hint of pedantry in his elegant style of speaking.
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Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
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What you call the pedantry and priggishness and all the rest of it is exactly what poor Breckenridge asked almost on his knees, wonderful man, to be _allowed_ to pay you for; since even if the meddlers and chatterers haven't settled anything for those who know -- though which of the elect themselves after all _does_ seem to know?
The Outcry
