There is no pedantry in striving to ascertain the list of the lonely few whom the assembled nations are all willing now to greet as the assured masters of the several arts.
But in default of the lesser invention, they have the larger imagination; and there is no pedantry in seeking to emphasize the distinction between these two qualities, often carelessly confused.
The second line has in it more of pedantry than perhaps can be found in any other stanza of the poem.
A cartoon in 1888 represents Education betrayed by its "friends"--pedantry and jobbery.
In 1875 he falls foul of the pedantry of over-zealous officials--the red-tape methods of inspectors, and the action of visitors who sent children back to school before they were free from infection.
In his time the Italian sonnetteers, as Petrarch, Bembo, Sanazzaro, were the prevailing models, and classical pedantry the prevailing taste.
But Madame Dacier's enthusiasm was real, and unaccompanied by pedantry or conceit.
In his addresses from the pulpit the sturdy good-sense of the man shook off the pedantry of the schools as well as the subtlety of the theologian.
The pedantry of the judges declared the whole nation to have been formally involved in the same charge by its acceptance of his authority.
From the Book of St Albans onward the treatises on armory are informed with a pedantry which touches the point of crazy mysticism in such volumes as that of Sylvanus Morgan.
In one matter his clear intelligence stands forth in marked contrast to the narrow pedantry of the Roman Cardinals.
I have no such respect for the pedantry of absurdity as that.
It has been declared sheer pedantry to speak of such boundaries; and to suggest that there is anything degrading in paid readings such as those of Dickens would, on the face of it, be absurd.
The error was not entirely avoided by this gifted man, who in the book under discussion, though striving after simplicity and comprehensiveness did not overcome the pedantry which sought safety in foreign elements only.
I regret, however, to be forced to confess that I have lately been shocked by a piece of pettypedantry which seems to show that we Americans are falling from grace--at least so far as one word is concerned.
In fact, Butler had not escaped the tinge of pedantry which naturally flowed from his education, and was apt, on many occasions, to make parade of his knowledge, when there was no need of such vanity.
We are become literal and exacting, addicted to the pedantry of the prescriptive, if not of the prosaic.
They simply drop pedantry and exult in irresponsibility.
Accordingly with him the movement illustrates the form, which is in its turn truly expressive, whereas occasionally, so bitter was his disgust with the pedantry of the schools, with Carpeaux the form is used to exhibit movement.
This pedantry would destroy itself: by the application of the same principles it could be proved that a General Election was necessary once a month, or once a week, or once a day.
So essentially is it the product of a transitional moment that when the first enthusiasm for its euphuistic pedantry and aesthetical rapture had subsided, the key to its most obvious meaning was lost.
The names, too, are very variously applied; nor without pedantry would it be possible to maintain perfect precision in their usage.
Meanwhile, the genius of the Florentine people was saving Italian literature from the extreme consequences to which caricatures of this kind, inspired by humanistic pedantry and sciolism, exposed it.
When his style attained perfection in the Decameron, it had lost the pedantry of his first manner, and combined the brevity of the best contemporary writers with rhetorical smoothness and intricacy.
Among the paltry subterfuges contrived by dulness to palliate the want of invention, the laborious pedantry of emblems ranks foremost, by which arbitrary and conventional signs have been substituted for character and expression.
The pedantry of geometrically straight lines is not only no idealism, it is a solecism in Nature.
But Akenside's arrogance and pedantry frustrated these efforts, and Dyson then took a house for him in Bloomsbury Square, making him independent of his profession by an allowance stated to have been L.
To the pedantryof the Hindu he attributes its main characteristics, viz.
Perhaps his various accomplishments may be a little embellished or exaggerated in the popular belief, but it is unquestionable that his notion of culture was very large and liberal, and quite beyond the narrow pedantry of the preceding age.
Those who did not possess them put on their semblance, and, affecting an intellectual tone, fell into the pedantry which is sure to grow out of the effort to speak above one's altitude.
She was teacher rather than artist; but no one could be farther from a bas bleu, or more severe upon pedantry or pretension of any sort.
A Pedant iz a lernt phool--pedantry iz a little knowledge on parade--pedantry iz hypocrasy, without enny malice in it.
Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom yu meet.
The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedantry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
