They were neither concerned to master nature and compose a picture from her according to conventional rules, nor pedantically to draw the portrait of any given region.
An excess of this use is lengthy and pedantically bombastic, e.
He ridicules them for pedantically "dressing all their discourse in the language of the Faculty.
Of the generation next succeeding Linacre's was John Kaye, or Key (or Caius, as it has been long pedantically spelt).
Now it lay open before me: one after another I turned the thick leaves of the rough coarse paper, their pages covered with the neat, pedantically straight hand-writing of my father, which I knew so well.
Four years later, in defiance of Irish opinion, a Poor Law pedantically copied from the English model was applied to Ireland.
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.
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 tragedy does not afford the smallest warranty for the pedantically moralising interpretation devised for it by Gervinus and others.
The difference between Jonson's and Shakespeare's method is not that Jonson pedantically avoids the anachronisms which swarm in Julius Cæsar.
At last he had thrown away all disguise, and had appeared as a hierophant of Demeter, dressed in a fawn skin, with a crown of poplar leaves, and pedantically carrying the mystic basket and the winnowing fan appropriate to these mysteries.
I will not speak of most of the new communities of the United States where the life of the Old Testament is pedantically imitated .
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