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He was a man of forty, thin, with a pinched face, precise and rather pedantic.

But I'm going to reduce this to the beginning of the process, into three very pedantic statements.

Fourth, their activities had a strong pedantic style and Confucian ethos, lack of unified thinking and cohesion.

To a woman, he seems uncaring and disinter- ested and a man sees her as annoying or pedantic.

Note that the -pedantic flag will occasionally get some of the details of a given standard wrong.

These arguments relate little, if at all, to the business problem at hand and tend to devolve into pedantic arguments of semantics.

The distinction between a declaration and a definition may seem pedantic but in fact is quite important.

But most persons who try to imitate written language in their speech are often unaware of how pedantic they sound.

Fidelity, as she perceived it, wasn't something literal and pedantic.

But Huck Finn thought that the widow's behaviors were stiff and prim, and was in conflict with the widow's sham and the pedantic actions.

Or there is India with its weak state, but much greater accountability and almost pedantic attachment to the law.

To enforce full compliance with a version of the standard, use the -pedantic option.

This definition, though accurate, is equally as pedantic and useless as the first, from a practical point of view.

As the most important painting is of pedantic, but the foundation is still the most important thing.

In a brilliant tirade he denounces, scarifies, blasts the pedantic schoolmasters.

He gave me a pointed and pedantic stare.

Unlike some of the earlier professor heroes, he's never obvious, pedantic, or dry.

Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing.

Han Jia, whenever you see a beautiful place, you would always sound pedantic.

Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather than pedantic and portentous.

Mr Obama has seemed professorial, even pedantic, during recent town hall meetings on health reform.

One who instructs in a pedantic OR dogmatic manner.

And although you may anticipate that it's kind of pedantic, I really do want to illustrate something by it.

Indeed, the authors argue that excluding India from the treaty because of an arbitrary date of possession of nuclear weapons seems pedantic.

She also doesn't like a dead man, pedantic or is not assertive.

like that, we also can encounter the person that the other side is a pedantic, he is more standard than oneself perhaps.

From Chen Yins poetical works, we can see a lovable, pitiable and "pedantic" image somewhat worthy of respect in a feudal society.

"Pedantic and inflexible" is how a large foreign investor describes it.

you would rightly be regarded as a pedantic fool rather than a careful observer.

Great books are popular, not pedantic.

An instance of pedantic behavior.

A dull, pedantic speaker or writer.

I'm being slightly pedantic here.

How empty and pedantic a thinker he is!

empty and pedantic a thinker he is!

Explorer-Promoters, for example, may see Controller-Inspectors as dull, boring, pedantic and detail- oriented.

He is it appreciate , is it study picture of classic to love to like, ape sedulously never, pedantic.

Okay, not to be pedantic, but last I checked

(of a scholar) poor and pedantic

Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

a pedantic style of writing