pedantry

How To Use pedantry In A Sentence

• 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’
• Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
• Sometimes the corrections are amusing exercises in pedantry.
• This form of pedantry is a favorite of the far right, for some reason. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate
• 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
• He actually describes Addison, on the whole, as a 'dull prosaist,' and the patron of pedantry! Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
• Well-bred persons, abhorring the pedantry of the blues, are usually _anti - blues_, or _ultra-antis_. Tales and Novels — Volume 09
• Medicine can no longer reproach me with being unfaithful: I've paid a proper tribute to erudition, and to what old writers call pedantry.
• Big can be beautiful, and surprisingly few of the buildings here display the empty pedantry conspicuous in contemporary paintings and sculpture.
• Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.