| 单词 | pedantically |
| 例句 | “The Greeks have no Devil,” I said pedantically. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Watt is helplessly, pedantically logical—a kind of dimwitted Mr. Spock. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z On the way he introduced the idea of our forming a menage a trois, for which he had pedantically worked out the logistics. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z He’s of unspecified, presumably Arab descent, and in an early scene can be found reading pedantically from the thick training manual. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z None of the classics of the genre, from Robert Graves's I, Claudius to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, are pedantically accurate. Do artists need to be accurate to recreate history? 2011-02-28T15:19:06Z Others have insisted so pedantically on specific details that they have spoiled the ballet’s larger atmosphere. Nuggets of Ballet Wisdom From Bodies Trained by Balanchine 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z He's inconsistent in the way he treats ornaments, sometimes glossing over them, sometimes articulating them pedantically. Bach: Six Partitas 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z Where the music is gently lyrical, with effects of rhythmic wit, the dances are flamboyantly and pedantically busy, busy, busy. Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z At the end of the day, Biden had called on nearly two dozen reporters and handled himself as he always does — pedantically, intelligently and empathically — with a dash of humor thrown in for good measure. Signs of life in Bidenland: President seizes the pulpit at last — will it change anything? 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z But what, you ask pedantically, does science have to do with Mercyful Fate’s “Curse of the Pharaohs”? Well, professor, first off, you should know that archaeology is a science. Heavy Metal Science Songs: A Spotify Playlist for Halloween 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z What good would it do to pedantically offer sources as the 300th commentator on some dumb article about QAnon? Opinion | To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z From a lesser actor, the speech might land pedantically, but Gupta — like “The Line” as a whole — makes everything feel as open and tender as a wound. Harrowing tales from frontline COVID responders in livestreaming play ‘The Line’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z But he can also get pedantically confrontational if he thinks he has been misinterpreted. Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z After taking it 6-4 in 43 minutes he pumped his fist, stared down his opponent and then pedantically called for his towel before he was prepared to exit the court for the changeover. Rafael Nadal revival rolls on with win over Milos Raonic at Australian Open 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z He grimaces and chews pedantically to make sure every last bit has gone. Going underground: meet the man who lived as an animal 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The word “plan” pedantically distances her from her audience. Hillary Clinton, enough with your ‘plans’ already 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Like the next guy, I find it annoying when historians pedantically tell you which little facts are wrong in a work of art based on history, but my point is not about the details. We took four New Yorkers to The Death of Klinghoffer: what was their verdict? 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Designers were constrained to work in the pedantically archaeological manner prescribed by architectural fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Later this would, perhaps, become clearer to me; not pedantically, but because the spirit of that early time was still alive. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z But, of course, pedantically speaking, the whole thing was illegal, and Vivien has all a woman's respect for the letter of the law. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z This writer, though he pedantically insulted everybody else who broke the rules, allowed himself singular privileges. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z It is like a Russian talking French, and altogether too precise, too pedantically grammatical. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Their formal and logically complete economic doctrines and systems of historical philosophy, provided with pedantically correct details and definitions, remain dead and ineffective. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Cunning gets an extra £20 for every time he pedantically corrects someone in the office. Best of Chatterbox: bacon or sausage? 2011-04-07T14:35:00Z He feels especially constrained, seems to himself awkward in his pedantically correct clothes; he wears a dress-coat and white cravat, because after dinner he is going into society--laughable. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z I hope it may not be to show me his conservatory, or his Horatian garden, as he pedantically called it, or his fish-ponds. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Doctor Ripley was pedantically exact on such points, and yet he deliberately drove over next day and called upon Doctor Verrinder Smith. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z We all "yuh" more or less, I think, and for the writer of a story to insist thus pedantically on strict phonetic accuracy tends to make the whole fiction labored and unnatural. The Technique of Fiction Writing 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. Jena or Sedan? 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. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Grant that it may be, and often is, mechanically or pedantically pursued. The History of Dartmouth College It is very possible that it may have been pedantically introduced in the seventeenth century. Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The distinction between them used to be insisted upon much more pedantically than is the case to-day, and the present tendency to call any story of book-length a novel is a healthy sign. The Technique of Fiction Writing And behind these professors, behind their pedantically obscure utterances, in their heavy wearisome periods, was it possible that the revolution could conceal itself? Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Unhappily his interest in the political affairs of his own country led him to annex at Waterloo a despatch-case which, pedantically speaking, did not belong to him. Marge Askinforit "She is not formally affianced, as you so pedantically and affectedly put it, my friend," replied Madame with her accustomed acerbity. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days As you know," Reinhardt said pedantically, "no Controller can do a perfect job of controlling a normal person. The Penal Cluster But whatever Lord Grey's mistakes in colonial policy, his long career shows him personally incorruptible, and in some ways almost pedantically high-minded. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe I have already pointed out that the accurate, perhaps pedantically accurate, form of the antithesis would have been: 'If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with God.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John And generally we are little disposed pedantically to disparage towns as funds of a good soldiery. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The ideas of the commissioners were not pedantically economical in their range, nor did they insist that public relief must be given only as the reward of personal integrity when visited by undeserved misfortune. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV An excess of this use is lengthy and pedantically bombastic, e.g., the following paraphrase for "in every British colony:"—"under Indian palm-groves, amid Australian gum-trees, in the shadow of African mimosas, and beneath Canadian pines." How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Now, I dare say, my dear fellow, you think that I am talking very learnedly, or you may say, very pedantically; but I do not even claim originality for my views. Ernest Bracebridge School Days Our friend explained—it is to be hoped not pedantically—that this art was serious work and that society was humbug and imbecility; also that of old the great comedians wouldn't have known such people. The Tragic Muse This natural and thoroughly individualistic English method enabled him to arrive at new results in a way impossible to the pedantically educated German—nay, even to the lucidly and systematically educated Frenchman. Post-Prandial Philosophy He arrived there, to be pedantically accurate, on October 20, 1899, at 5 a.m. Sir John French An Authentic Biography Cetinje was chosen as the capital some hundreds of years ago—1484, to be pedantically correct—when a defensible position was the most important factor, which even to-day is a point to be reckoned with. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro "The prosy geologist talks pedantically of a granite rock, and is mute when he sees the flower that blooms above it." Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Certainly up to the time of Géricault painting in general held itself rather pedantically aloof from poetry. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture 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 Adventures of My Cousin Smooth But he has never, to put it pedantically, accepted as the principle of his conduct the morality which takes shape in his imaginative fears. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Again, a little group of periodicals sprang up in which were discussed, learnedly and pedantically, to be sure, but with keen intelligence, the questions that were interesting the great world outside. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Lowell, however, thinks that Collins "was the first to bring back into poetry something of the antique flavor, and found again the long-lost secret of being classically elegant without being pedantically cold." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Four years later, in defiance of Irish opinion, a Poor Law pedantically copied from the English model was applied to Ireland. The Framework of Home Rule To speak a little pedantically," says our author himself, in a paper called Signs of the Times, "there is a science of Dynamics in man's fortune and nature, as well as of Mechanics. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 For half a century laissez-faire was pedantically applied to Irish agriculture, then suddenly the other extreme was adopted; nothing was left alone, and political economy was sent on its famous planetary excursion. Ireland In The New Century It is true that this canon must not be received pedantically. The Making of Arguments Dryden, citing approvingly Denham's verses to Fanshawe, "They but preserve his ashes, thou his flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame," says, with his usual pithiness, "Too faithfully is indeed pedantically." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 "In ancient Greece," she began pedantically, "a man was judged a good citizen who built houses, planted trees—" She did not complete the quotation, but drew the conclusion hurriedly. Burning Daylight Dr. Ripley was pedantically exact on such points, and yet he deliberately drove over next day and called upon Dr. Verrinder Smith. Round the Red Lamp Plato has at least detailed a scheme for eliminating his philosopher guardians, though it somewhat pedantically suggests a series of Chinese examinations: his political, though probably unconscious disciple has only a few negative tests. Thomas Carlyle In his tragedies, 'Sejanus' and 'Cataline,' he seeks to describe Romans whose whole bearing was to be in pedantically close harmony with the time in which the dramatic action occurs. Shakspere and Montaigne Most revolutions began by being quite pedantically abstract. Tremendous Trifles Sometimes they pedantically "archaise," bringing in genuine, but by their time forgotten, Mycenaean things, and criticism can detect their doings in each case. Homer and His Age What a little annoyed Job was that his son always addressed him as "Squire," a habit even pedantically followed by his companions. Endymion To Edwarda he was polite and kind, often fatherly, and pedantically instructive, as he had been so many times before. Pan It is pedantically precise, giving the exact year, month, and even day when the Flood came, vii. Introduction to the Old Testament "I grabbed for to make myself a cigarette, Willyerm," was the pedantically correct restatement of Henry. Snake and Sword A Novel As the creator of the drama he deserves historical notice, though he has no claim to originality, but, like a schoolmaster as he was, pedantically labored to imitate the culture of the Greeks. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations The Italian Parliament pedantically laid down a uniform period of six months. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement As the creator of the drama, he deserves historical notice, though he has no claim to originality, and like a schoolmaster as he was, pedantically labored to imitate the culture of the Greeks. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. 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. Italian Hours If, perchance, a pedantically disposed conductor should incline to insist upon this or that detail, he will, as a rule, be found in the wrong. On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, The pedantically conscientious man, in his search for an unblemished religious brotherhood, has tended always to a solitude of universal dissent. First and Last Things Here I am talking loosely of the greatest things, and perhaps pedantically; well, we agreed to talk, didn't we, of anything and everything? Letters of Franklin K. Lane Those who go to work so pedantically will assuredly come to grief along with the music. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words It robs industry of its honours, by pedantically making itself the cause of its effects; and purloins from the general character of man, the merits that appertain to him as a social being. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): the Rights of Man Perhaps it need not be done so pedantically, thought Nicholas, or even done at all, but this untiring, continual spiritual effort of which the sole aim was the children's moral welfare delighted him. War and Peace I ventured, perhaps pedantically, to point out that the poor man could not be so very poor, or he would not have made so costly an experiment on Dutch paper. Books and Bookmen He closed the windows, lit the gas, took off his overcoat—Muller was a pedantically careful person—smoothed his hair and sat down comfortably at the table. The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow The pedantically neat detective looked about him in disgust, then suddenly he forgot his displeasure and a gleam shot up in his eye. The Case of the Lamp That Went Out At present boys are introduced to the language of the Muses by pedantically written grammars, full of the queerest and most arid metaphysical and philological verbiage. Essays in Little This speech, pedantically delivered, probably seemed to Monsieur Roguin so fine that his hearer could not at once understand it. Vendetta 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. The World Set Free |
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