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The general reader will, I hope, be gratified to find that its pages display no pedantic or scholastic traits.
Had he talked as he wrote, he would have been wearisome and pedantic.
These pedantic admirers of old revolutions believe that those of the future will be made on the same lines.
When an unstable young wife, getting tired of a pedantic husband in the way so familiar to students of novels, goes off with a companion more to her taste, anyone can foresee trouble, or what would there be to write about?
I never heard a generous appreciation of a book; what I rather heard was trivial gossip about the author, followed by shallow, and I thought pedantic, judgments upon an author's lack of movement or aerial quality.
In other and less pedantic words, he who is truly humane considers every human being as such interesting and important, and without waiting to criticize each individual specimen, pays in advance to all alike the tribute of good wishes and sympathy.
We still borrow as freely as ever; but half the benefit of this borrowing is lost to us, owing to our modern and pedantic attempts to preserve the foreign sounds and shapes of imported words, which make their current use unnecessarily difficult.
Everything else appeared to her either affected or pedantic or insipid.
Decadent men become dry and pedantic.
At once my kinsman put on that stiff pedantic tone which had irritated me at Huerta.
However, be scarcely requires such pedantic instructions, for he sees in a battle only an opportunity for personal distinction in one form or another, not a moral task which can be properly executed only in one way.
He becomes, our critics continue, simply a disagreeable pedantic tool of the all-powerful "drill."
He may not write with the ease and grace of a man of letters, but he is never pretentious and not often pedantic.
They are particularly rich in nursery tales, for which the nation indeed has always had a great fondness; but which, during an age of a false pedantic taste, were after all not thought worthy of literary preservation until of late.
He was a pedantic, solemn actor, with a sepulchral voice and a stiff stalking gait.
The object of this paper is to show by setting forth the principles consciously or unconsciously followed by our ancestors that such pronunciations are as erroneous as in the case of the ordinary man they are unnatural and pedantic.
The piece is a tedious arraignment of the pedantic methods of instruction in English schools and colleges.
There would be no supply of such pedantic swagger were there not a demand for it.
He is frequently pedantic and ostentatious in his style, because he had no consciousness of these vices in himself.
See, if French blood runs in your veins, that you don't take a pedantic view of this question like an Englishwoman.
Perhaps it is not pedantic to suggest that the critic who seeks to be of service ought to be able to see in every masterpiece the result of the combined action of three forces, without any one of which that work of art could not have come into being.
Not that this diction is in any respect affected or pedantic.
Curiosity alone at first brought the people there, but the people returned; for in France they seldom desert the saloons wherein are to be found a polished and benevolent host, witty without being ridiculous, and learned without being pedantic.
By too much attention to theory, by too close a study of books, we may become narrow-minded and pedantic, and gradually may become unable to appreciate natural beauties, our whole attention being concentrated on the defects in art.
Why blight the cheering prospects of thousands to gratify the vain ambition of pedantic politicians?
All objects take their places with a precision that, nevertheless, is in nowise pedantic, and is perfectly free.
A great advance has been made in psychology when the senses are recognized as organs of sense, and we are admitted to see or feel 'through them' and not 'by them,' a distinction of words which, as Socrates observes, is by no means pedantic.
What asperity and scorn I threw into my pedantic rebukes!
John becomes a tiresome person with a pedantic and ill-balanced mind.
She showed an orderly, almost pedantic, character, mingled with generosity of heart.
It is often pedantic, often bloodless, and often it is a source of inspiration only to him by whom the work is done.
Aside from Hazlitt, who thought that Portia is affected and pedantic, and who did not like her because he did not happen to appreciate her, the best analytical thinkers about Shakespeare's works have taken the high view of that character.
She accepted our ideas without comment, and carried them out with such pedantic precision and such evident absence of all feeling of responsibility concerning the result as to surround our home legislation with quite a military atmosphere.
She was a little cold, a little prim, a little pedantic, a little self-conscious.
A good heart, but a pedantic conscience, and a sort of energetically mechanical intelligence.
The tone of pedantic rectitude in these passages is characteristic.
In the judgment of contemporaries the pedantic parson won a complete triumph over the most brilliant of wits.
Once perceiving a pedantic fellow, he said, "Now we must desist, for a fool is coming in!"
On this account there is nothing in these passages that appears puerile or pedantic.
"Well, we live by the river," said Toni cheerfully, amused, as of yore, by his somewhat pedantic diction.
He had been harsh, hostile, pedantic, suspected, and detested upon that unutterable Bath and Romney trip.
The wail of this "Welsh fairy" is the fine flower of this funeral wreath of pedantic and unconscious irony.
This is no random, or (to use a pedantic term) perfunctory document; not a document is this to which indulgence is due.
They are neither formal nor pedantic, and are as brief as is consistent with clearness.
The times were too serious to admit of pedantic trifling or unmanly shrinking.
His pedantic enumeration of the various hindrances as well as the romanticism of his plans amused her.
His object, he professed, was "to corrupt the pedantic city."
This mixed literature's flavor, humorous, romantic, and pedantic, beautifully welded.
And more severe, elderly, pedantic persons profess to love him than love any other mortal writer.
Anything that savors of the pedantic is to be strictly avoided.
It will not do to set all these aside under any fastidious or pedantic distinction.
Subtlety and discrimination he abhors as pedantic vices, savoring too much of "culture."
The appellation soon became general as a name for pedantic or ridiculous literary ladies.
All other style seemed to me pedantic Notes and impertinent.
Everything, in accordance with the rage of the day, assumed an erudite, or, more truly speaking, a pedantic cast.
His contribution to verified knowledge is passed by as pedantic and unintelligible.
It was Puritanical; now it is pedantic.
I don't envy that pedantic, detestable young lady her lover!
It is not pedantic to quote and allude to them, which it would be with regard to the ancients.
He was a little slow, a little pompous, a little affected and pedantic.
It is impossible to say with certainty at what period he began the observations which were afterwards to come before the world in this shape; nor is the question of any real interest except to pedantic students of such matters.
I lived with my old parents, who both appeared, on the surface, dry and pedantic; but who understood the art of making for themselves and me a rich, warm, and beautiful life, that gave my thoughts and feelings ample nourishment.
He had an intellectual countenance, but it was concealed by his large spectacles, which gave him a pedantic appearance; when he did smile his face became quite handsome, but his usual serious expression was not becoming to him.
The singing was good, and devoid of the pedantic tricks that her father abhorred.
No laws of war permit such outrages, no military necessities can excuse, and no pedantic partisan can vindicate them.
If dull and pedantic over certain stretches, it is usually infallible.
How dreadfully dull and pedantic all these people are!
It is not to be believed that Alexander's preceptor, chosen by Philip, was wrong-headed and pedantic.
His blunt conscientiousness and quite pedantic frankness of speech were displeasing on first acquaintance.
His verse is very largely concerned with negations: it is not ornamented, it is not preposterous, it is not pedantic.
Not only did he drop this pedantic restriction of literature in the end, but in his own practice he had always defied it, because, despite his fierce campaign against art, he could not overcome the force of his artistic impulses.
Yet his quotations, references and allusions are never pedantic, nor are they allowed to clog and weight his style.
It reveals the man, and is not wearisome like the conceits of the pedantic school.
Yet the problem itself was neither puerile nor pedantic.
Less the product of inspiration than pedantic choice, it bore the taint of languor and unpardonable dullness.
I know very well you are ready with a thousand instances of attempt and failure, but may we not seek the cause in the mistaken application of certain classical, or, I should say, pedantic ideas on the subject?
A pedantic style of phraseology, and a desire to let other people see how much one knows, are amateur failings.
Pray forgive me, Madame, for this opinion, which is slightly pedantic, but without any pretension.
Mutual support and unceasing progress distinguish real and natural order from its mockery, pedantic tyranny.
Wilson though a passionate and obstinate pedantic of democracy, is as much of an autocrat as William of Prussia.
True parliamentary eloquence easily brought to reason pedantic and bombastic oratory.
His influence speedily declined, and before his death his name became proverbial for pedantic folly.
"Hideous," he said, with a touch of pedantic reproof which consorted oddly with his jacket and trousers.
I remember thinking I was doing something rather pretentious and pedantic when I began to read Ruskin.
It had not yet become fashionable for the latter to rehearse deeds of philanthropy in pedantic garments.
Robert Spencer stared as if he found it difficult to credit that this formal, cold, somewhat pedantic young woman was the girl whom he had found all love and tenderness; indeed he refused to credit it.
Clara did not reply, but began to sketch in a manner that proved she had listened to the pedantic rules he had laid down on occasion of the previous lesson more from modesty than because she was in want of them.
As soon as I applied my mind to study I resolved at the same time to take the Cardinal de Richelieu for my pattern, though my friends opposed it as too pedantic; but I followed my first designs, and began my course with good success.
"By pedantic schoolboys," he replied calmly.
Pedantic adherence to the composer's own conception is, to my mind, not an unassailable maxim.
Look at the two pedantic, pompous, dull advocates in the later part of Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book."
Moreover, Huxley appears to have a certain professional, and I had almost said pedantic, contempt for anything calling itself science which cannot be rated and registered in the regular and practical way.
Parker was an elderly man, somewhat pedantic and notional in his ways, but withal full of energy and zeal in the cause.
There awaits him only the barren generalities of a foreign prosody, tedious, pedantic, fruitless.
What certainty that yonder pedantic booby is right in his prognostics?
Oh, how I hate this pedantic roundabout way of writing!
The French and others have swept their scholastic houses empty of it, with pedantic fidelity to their theories.
Certain cautionary rules are no less than pedantic, and may be justly and aptly styled Judaical.
In it there reigned a breath of life, a vitality of understanding, a strength of conviction, and a simplicity of statement, forming a striking contrast with the subtle and pedantic systems of the schools.
It is unjust to attribute to Watteau's influence only the frivolous school of painters which immediately followed him; they were incidents of the reaction of their time against the dull and the pedantic.