His menu made a fetish of the theory early on, pedantically tagging everything that came out of the kitchen, from Arizona beef to Lee Jones eggplant.
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His early books are peopled by eccentrics who speak in a pedantically formal manner and engage in hilariously comic activities that are recounted by a detached narrative voice.
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It is illegitimate to tamper with a stable lead like this, reading sources pedantically and one-sided addition and removal together with any refusal to compromise.
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Although some people use it pedantically or to sound mock-pedantic, I think most people simply employ it to stress the verb or maintain a certain rhythm.
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A spectator, or even a reader pedantically parsing the ambiguities on the printed page, may well encounter the same difficulty, further aggravated by mechanics of the plot.
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His doughy countenance, his unappealing voice, his elaborate precision of speech and his pedantically professorial demeanor will not strike fear in the heart of Bubba, nor wavering Democrats in Congress.
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And how does one's editing agenda taken neutrally as things people like to edit, pedantically as an accusation of being " political " preclude the facticity of information?
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When a real war goes wrong, a considered plan, as Kerry pedantically refers to his every policy prescription, can start to look preferable to a slam-dunk Jerry Bruckheimer stunt.
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Trotsky called him " mediocrity personified ", whilst Molotov himself pedantically corrected comrades referring to him as'Stone Arse'by saying that Lenin had actually dubbed him'Iron Arse '.
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:: I suspect that I have pedantically answered the question you asked, rather than the one you meant to ask . talk ) 22 : 37, 29 July 2014 ( UTC)
