As a mere observer, I see my female friends on Facebook engaging in conversations that border on pedantic.
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Or there is India with its weak state, but much greater accountability and almost pedantic attachment to the law.
In 1909 Magie tried to get Parker Brothers to market her invention, but the company passed, finding it too complicated and pedantic.
But by elevating substance over form, Bogle overcomes the book's pedantic structure.
It also results in endless pedantic discussions about what direction to take.
Any freelancer whose work has been mangled by pedantic copywriters or editors justifying their jobs will find these indignant tirades especially gratifying.
Obama took a very public hit earlier this week, appearing tired and pedantic in the first televised debate with GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
There were still pedantic elements, but they were less of an issue, and characters who had bugged viewers in Season 1 sparked to life.
And another cleric, William Gilpin, the father of the Picturesque movement, drew up a list of pedantic instructions on how to view the landscape.
Highly perceptive, she delivers pedantic-sounding observations and shows barely any emotion.
It's a dazzling examination of Japan's rigid society without being pedantic.
With the exception of the academic and somewhat pedantic study of queuing theory, there's little specifically taught about valuing customer time so much as exploiting it.
Doing otherwise is pathetic, pedantic, and unbecoming of an academic.
If one's being pedantic the brooms are in fact brushes.
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In Paris in the early nineteen-eighties, two young couples cross paths: a poetic dilettante and his pedantic girlfriend and a singer in a Baroque ensemble and her computer-programmer boyfriend.
Scott Fitzgerald story, has been rendered by the writer Eric Roth and the director David Fincher with a fanatical literalness that occasionally touches the uncanny but that often feels laborious and even pedantic.
Women making minor stands on issues such as door opening or men making equally pedantic points of order over these trivial issues simply serves to perpetuate hostility and reduces good grace between the sexes.
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Earlier this month two military judges dismissed charges against Hamdan and another detainee, on the pedantic ground that administrative tribunals had designated them enemy combatants, not unlawful enemy combatants--notwithstanding that they clearly meet the Military Commissions Act's definition of unlawful combatants.
The first story has been told in pedantic detail by the Financial Services Authority in its 450-page report on the failure of RBS. Today, the FSA released the first chapter of the second tale and painted an even more damning picture.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
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