pedantry

It is a pedantry to give such importance to them.

But he needed his moments of pedantry to feel complete.

But that statistic is the end of the program's pedantry.

He managed not to wince at the pedantry of the words.

Just put it down to an English teacher's pedantry.

His family will no longer play him, charging pedantry.

"How did you ever pass Pedantry 101 in college?"

Hooper knew that he was in for weeks of grim pedantry.

I respect learning, but not pedantry, get that straight.

Pedantry can also be an indication of specific developmental disorders.

If pedantry is all you can bring to the debate, I actually think that is a pretty poor show.

Once you give in to the program's pointy-headedness, though, the pedantry is not worthless.

This is no time for legal pedantry; we must mobilise the Fund.

Despite this his work reveals a sure and brilliant hand, free from any trace of pedantry.

Pedantry aside, it seems that most of the residents here are happy to oblige.

This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash.

Thus among these professional spies there was always the bizarre atmosphere of pedantry.

His manners were grave and decorous, but free from pedantry.

Though he claims to be writing English and not grammar, there is a vein of pedantry in it.

A profound sense of irony tends to keep Spaniards from pedantry.

And occasionally he fails to rescue them from melodrama or pedantry.

I'll tell you three things this might mean, he said to himself, dulling his reactions with textbook pedantry.

Until last year I endeavoured, as you do now, to blind my eyes by your pedantry to the truths of life.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by pedantry.

"My friends, like myself, could only find in him a ridiculous assumption of superiority and pedantry.