"If the intent and moral vision do not exist, then the rules become meaningless pedantry, " he argues.

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When I responded that children and pensioners are not producers but they are consumers I was accused of pedantry.

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But if his perfectionism bordered on pedantry, Warburg continued to inspire great loyalty.

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This is the sort of blinkered hair-splitting that gives pedantry a bad name.

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Compared with these, the agenda at Hillsborough arguing about when to transfer policing and how to regulate Orange marches seems mere pedantry.

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Brandeis was not the first American jurist to challenge the exploitation of legal pedantry in the service of reactionary politics.

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This is not just pedantry, although I am happy to admit to wanting to be careful in my use of language.

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