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It was ignored by the newspapers; it was pedantically disregarded in the discussion of business questions, it played a trivial and apologetic part in public affairs.
These, had they been properly applied, might have served to distinguish him among men in what is pedantically called the higher walks of life.
The pedantically neat detective looked about him in disgust, then suddenly he forgot his displeasure and a gleam shot up in his eye.
It is very possible that it may have been pedantically introduced in the seventeenth century.
The system of the military training of the men, evolved in an age of patriarchal bureaucratic government, had remained pedantically the same, counting on an ever-present patriotism.
"Now just listen to me," said Dick, tilting back his chair and waving his fork pedantically.
Their formal and logically complete economic doctrines and systems of historical philosophy, provided with pedantically correct details and definitions, remain dead and ineffective.
This writer, though he pedantically insulted everybody else who broke the rules, allowed himself singular privileges.
He ridicules them for pedantically "dressing all their discourse in the language of the Faculty."
Here I am talking loosely of the greatest things, and perhaps pedantically; well, we agreed to talk, didn't we, of anything and everything?
Such designations do not prove, as a few critics have rather pedantically supposed, that the writer of the verses lived in Judah and addressed himself to what was under his eyes.
For now and again it must happen to a man that some woman he has no passionate love for, pedantically speaking, shall grow round his heart and make the comfort of his life.
We are expressly and somewhat pedantically told of her that in the family of the Arch-Druid she had been "carefully instructed in the literature of Greece and in the history of her own country."
Too faithfully is, indeed, pedantically: it is a faith like that which proceeds from superstition, blind and zealous.
She pretended to be utterly frivolous; yet when she had assumed a task she was pedantically faithful in its execution.
And there are many modern errors in the matter due to the copying of some style pedantically and to the absence of native inspiration.
Here they could see a pair pedantically apart, correctness itself; there a couple buried in each other, the young man's face lost to view in his partner's hair.
He has a dozen faults, and if you insist pedantically on your rights the conclusive word you use about him will be the word weak.
His hands were masterful: the fingers tapering, the nails pedantically polished.
And generally we are little disposed pedantically to disparage towns as funds of a good soldiery.
Many of the popular manuals of good English are extremely useful, especially to persons whose reading is not as yet extensive; but such works sometimes err in being too pedantically precise and formal.
My object is not to discuss or analyze pedantically, for the sake of the analysis itself, but simply to state the importance of discovering the basic fictional character of the idea, that it may be properly expanded.