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Pedantry (/ˈpɛd.ən.tri/ PED-ən-tree) is an
excessive concern with formalism,
minor details, and
rules that are not important.
Pedantry is the adjective...
- and
Grammar ****s of America. A
later pop-culture
reference to ****sm as
pedantry was in a 1995
episode of the
sitcom Seinfeld,
entitled "The Soup ****"...
- hardback.
Judith Shulevitz,
writing in The New York Times,
criticized the "
pedantry" of Tolkien's
literary style,
saying that he "formulated a high-minded...
- unfaithful." Cf. a
supposed comment by
Winston Churchill: "This is the type of
pedantry up with
which I will not put." "Interpretation" in this
sense is to be...
- but the
paranoid will
outdo him in the
apparatus of scholarship, even of
pedantry. ... The Ku Klux Klan
imitated Catholicism to the
point of
donning priestly...
- from
those of
earlier scholars—in
other words,
taking on
connotations of
pedantry, monotony, and lack of originality.
Mention of both the
Great Library of...
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house the
soldiers for six
months of the year.
Curtiss finds that "The
pedantry of Nicholas's
military system,
which stressed unthinking obedience and...
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Kiell Smith-Bynoe 18 May 2023 (2023-05-18) 2,209,000 137 9 "A Show
About Pedantry"
Kiell Smith-Bynoe 25 May 2023 (2023-05-25) 2,145,000 138 10 "A Yardstick...
- who "talk book-ish" (puhuvat kirjakieltä); it may have
connotations of
pedantry, exaggeration, moderation,
weaseling or
sarcasm (somewhat like
heavy use...
- The city "boasted of her
intellectual supper-parties, where,
amidst a
pedantry which would now make
laughter hold both his sides,
there was much that...
