His failings, obvious enough, were the results of a strong and somewhat pedantic individuality ceaselessly at conflict with unpropitious circumstances.
Lkhovsky dismissed the pedantic gripes and advised readers to appreciate the book for what it was, rather than judge it against what it never aimed to become.
An article in the Observer in 1936 referred to " the most remarkable phenomenon in modern American syntax, viz., the pedantic revival of the subjunctive" .
Still, we're just gonna go ahead and use " George Orwell" when referring to him throughout the video, because, well, partly it's easier, and partly because it's gonna annoy any massive pedants watching.
Even the most distant town he visits is clean " to the point of pedantry." As in the metropole, so also here, the British cannily combine brute force with cultural influence.
Instead of being forced to take this pedantic approach, they should have been encouraged to read the play at one sitting and discuss what they got out of that first quick reading.
A character created by the author and cultural critic Lu Xun in 1919, Chinese schoolchildren learn that Kong Yiji was a pedantic man of letters who stubbornly clung to tradition and failed to adapt to the times.
In her last years, after the death of Essex, Elizabeth I ceased to be the idol of the nation; and Englishmen found little to idolize in the pedantic, ungainly Scot who succeeded her.
But in fact, Confucius himself is not a pedantic scholar, but he is a bit ruthless, because he has a lot of social experience, which may be because Confucius has struggled at the bottom of society.
And also, documentaries: I think it's important to learn stuff, not in a pedantic or academic way, but to learn other people's lives and other ways of living through documentary is a great thing.