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1. protocols, but to him it had seemed unduly pedantic given
2. A private teacher could never find his account in teaching either an exploded and antiquated system of a science acknowledged to be useful, or a science universally believed to be a mere useless and pedantic heap of sophistry and nonsense
3. be regarded as one of those pedantic pieces of hypocrisy which, instead of gaining credit with anybody, serve only to expose the person who affects to practise them to the suspicion of buing a greater knave than most of his neighbours
4. It was neither pedantic nor donnish; over-stated on a number of levels, perhaps,…………
5. “The Last Supper is the sacrament administered to a dying Catholic,” you had to hear it in that pedantic, Indian-Oxford accent
6. Some of them where actually real flaming cars, but that was just a pedantic difference
7. “Someone suggested that he may have had a problem with either the motor or the aeroplane,” came the pedantic voice of Bill Chosser
8. This fellow was quite pedantic having been a history and English teacher before he got his sixth year degree (a doctorate in Education without a thesis)
9. Ever since he had been removed from the grime and gore of combat, he had become a bit pedantic
10. This was the pedantic nature of our religion, which
11. "The Romanov gold," said Horricks in the slow, pedantic oratory used by politicians when they are unsure of the way ahead
12. tone was turning pedantic, but he couldn’t help himself
13. It was her turn to get pedantic
14. Sounding kind of pedantic, he said, “Because her home is in
15. Spirits open-mouthed insistence builds pedantic pedestals out of
16. on the bus, at the research center and then, unable to reach a conclusion, a decision, with interminable dialogues of my two selves, the man of action and the man of sloth, the aspiring stud and the pedantic philosopher, with the memory fading and the urgency
17. “I hate to be pedantic,” MacDonald resisted, “but she was only my girlfriend at the time
18. If you hadn’t thrown your cigarette butt into my neighbour’s garden and if this neighbour hadn’t been such a pedantic idiot I wouldn’t have figured it all out
19. Forcing herself to remember what she knew to be true about Perry seemed pointless and pedantic, almost maliciously so
20. “Comsat is an abbreviation for a series of communication satellites,” he explained, his voice maddeningly pedantic
21. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor? Or would he have to settle for Russian anyway?
22. "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity
23. 9997 percent loss to be significantly better than a 100 percent loss, but the distinction is more than a little pedantic
24. He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruelty with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself
25. Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor
26. depths of its despair, he said to her: "What a very pedantic air
27. Without being pedantic about definitions, I quote here some interesting classifications and quantifications
28. ) Not for scoundrels, but for pedantic poseurs, ‘haunted by profound, unsolved doubts
29. “I'm bound to admit the fact,” Smerdyakov drawled with pedantic composure, “that I have a secret with Fyodor Pavlovitch in this business
30. He covered the table in his little corner with a pedantic air of importance, opened a book, lighted two candles, muttered some mysterious words, and clothed himself in a kind of chasuble, striped, and with sleeves, which he preserved carefully at the bottom of his trunk
31. And it is with these b's, that is, sounds that cannot be pronounced, as Ushínski defines them, or the pronunciation of which demands special skill, that the instruction of reading begins according to the pedantic German manuals
32. On the one hand, we have elegant phraseology without any substance, characterized in great part by most one-sided superficiality; and on the other hand, accompanying undeniable profundity of investigation and richness of subject-matter, we get a revolting awkwardness of philosophic terminology, infolding the simplest thoughts in an apparel of abstract science, as though to render them worthy to enter the consecrated palace of the system; and finally, between these two methods of investigation and exposition there is a third, forming, as it were, the transition from one to the other, a method consisting of eclecticism, now flaunting an elegant phraseology, and now a pedantic erudition
33. He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruel with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself
34. Still more was the character of this feminine circle expressed in the manner in which the three ladies spoke Russian and French—spoke them, that is to say, with perfect articulation of syllables and pedantic accuracy of substantives and prepositions
35. If in the midst of this diversity a mass of beliefs common to all is apparent, is one not justified in seeing in it, not a formulated system, framed by the representatives of pedantic authority, but faith itself in its surest instinct and its most spontaneous manifestation? If the same unanimity which is revealed in essential points of belief is found also in rejecting certain tendencies, are we not justified in concluding that these tendencies were in flagrant opposition to the fundamental principles of Christianity? And will not this presumption be transformed into certainty if we recognize in the doctrine universally rejected by the Church the characteristic features of one of the religions of the past? To say that gnosticism or ebionitism are legitimate forms of Christian thought, one must boldly deny the existence of Christian thought at all, or any specific character by which it could be recognized
36. “I have always had a great admiration for the heroines of Shakespeare—Rosalind, in particular,” he said, with a hint of pedantic precision; “but I consider Miss Elenore more charming still