64 Sentences With "pedants" | Random Sentence Generator

Each of these doctored realities is close enough, a problem only for pedants.

And pedants take note: there's no longer a space after "USB" and the number.

I'll leave that to Professor Horrendo (Rabassa's name for the pedants who nitpick his translations).

But now Google is forcing icons to assume a unified size, pleasing design pedants everywhere.

Pedants will quibble that the book is built on individual themes that others have looked at more deeply.

Pedants can nonetheless criticise Oxfam's headline-grabbing comparison for its handling of debt, the dollar, labour and data.

And pedants will point out that Zeus took the form of a white bull, not a scarlet one.

The beauty debates have since cooled, but Hickey has stoked his reputation as a swashbuckler against the prudes and pedants of the ivory tower.

So when he tweets, deletes, then tweets again and deletes again, the pedants among us are understandably quick to log on and sound off.

The internet has always been a cozy home for partisans and pedants, conspiracists and crusaders, but gradually, their spirit has crept into the rest of our lives.

Jack TurbanBoston To the Editor: With all due respect to Teresa M. Bejan, it is not just "pedants" who complain about using "they" as a singular pronoun.

Save your breath, pedants, for arguing about how all the Gatsby-inspired 1920s parties we're about to be bombarded with completely miss the point of the book.

For true pedants, while the 'verbose' option was specified, it wouldn't really be a graphical progress bar, but you have to indulge a little bit of creative flair/license.

The pedants among the pundits will point out that Clinton didn't say Gabbard was working for the Russians, that there's a difference between being an agent and being an asset.

Morris, who dropped out of a graduate program at Berkeley in philosophy because "it was just a world of pedants," has always seen himself as a kind of cinematic outsider.

Pedants might quibble about my saying that material tends to be flung outward while spinning, since this statement smacks of centrifugal forces, which their physics teachers assured them did not exist.

But by 2013, enough people were using it interchangeably with "metaphorically" that even leading grammar pedants threw up their hands (literally?), and the Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries expanded their definitions.

It is not on the same level as his disdain for the intelligence community, but the President's questionable relationship with grammar has been troubling to the pedants out there for some time.

An important note: The phrase "little a salami" was regularly bastardized into "a little salami," which broke the brains of the already-broken-brained meme pedants of the internet (regretfully, myself included).

One of the richer paradoxes of the cocktail world is that, for all their Hawaiian shirts and beach-bum bonhomie, tiki aficionados are among the most doctrinaire pedants you'll find in any bar.

In 1996, Alanis Morissette was roundly criticized by pedants who argued that the examples of situational irony in her song "Ironic" — "It's like rain on your wedding day" — were not, in fact, ironic.

There is a delicious movie, " A Grand Day Out " (1990), about going to the moon and returning safely, though pedants might say that it lacks historical roots, since the astronauts are Wallace and Gromit.

Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.

But it was clunky and limited, and it eventually became apparent to Arthur and Kathleen—"pedants by hobby," Kathleen likes to say—that Bitcoin's underlying technology, the blockchain, was capable of doing a lot more.

In 1974, an SR-71 flew between the two cities in a mere 1 hour and 54 minutes, although pedants might disqualify it, as it did not take off from JFK nor land at Heathrow.

Homestuck's dual epilogues present two extremes: Either the narrative is dominated by self-involved, control-freak pedants, or it is turned over to the messy, deeply conflicted, unsavory but often beautiful, and indeed, sometimes liberatory realm of fanwork.

If you care about numbers, this fund may be the largest dedicated to Southeast Asia, although pedants would point out that the Vertex allocation also includes a focus on India, echoing the trend of funds bridging the two regions.

Historians, scientists and academic pedants carped about its audacity of scope — but the book, modeled after Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (a book that also received its share of carping and academic envy), presented a sweeping macrohistory, often marvelously.

There she is ridiculed by her fellow pedants, who have little use for her sentimental take on the genre; wooed by a fatuous professor who studies the folkways of football chants; and attacked by a group of drunken karaoke singers in a bar.

" - Abbie, 25 "To be fair, the writers of GoT put themselves in the worst situation possible: stuck between 'tits and dragons' primetime TV viewers, and 'the books were better' pedants who no longer even have any books to ground their wildly unrealistic expectations.

In fact, having seen him perform these poems — I took two trains and an Uber through a near-typhoon to do so — I'm quite sure he's more interested in working a kind of sly, musical magic with them than in having pedants sweat over marginal notes on significance.

I am one of those pedants who are irritated by what I consider the improper use of the word "hopefully," and it was one of my proudest moments as a parent when my college-age child told me that whenever anyone used "hopefully" to mean "it is to be hoped," rather than, "in a hopeful manner," he would imagine me making a face.

A sub- section of the letters page devoted to pedantic corrections of or additions to previous articles or readers' letters. Under its previous title, 'Pedants Corner', this included several letters on the use of the apostrophe in "Pedants'", which has variously appeared as "Pedants", "Pedant's" or "Ped'ants Corner". It was renamed "Pedantry Corner" in 2008 following a reader's suggestion.

The word is spoken by the comic rustic Costard in Act V, Scene 1 of the play. It is used after an absurdly pretentious dialogue between the pedantic schoolmaster Holofernes and his friend Sir Nathaniel. The two pedants converse in a mixture of Latin and florid English. When Moth, a witty young servant, enters, Costard says of the pedants: Flap-dragon was a game that involved trying to eat hot raisins from a bowl of burning brandy.

Their feud sparked a small war of pamphlets from other pedants competing to expose grammatical inconsistencies, errors and phrases literally translated from French in the works of their rivals, with proposals for implementing their own sets of rules.

He blamed "little pedants" who did not have "the courage to attempt history in the grand manner".David Eldridge, Hollywood's History Films (I. B. Tauris, 2006), p. 174 Read retired in 1951 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which he held for two years.

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In S. Sacks (ed.), On Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 29–45. Think of Romeo's declaration, 'Juliet is the sun!' Juliet is a woman, not a ball of plasma in the sky, but human listeners are not (or not usually) pedants insistent on point-by-point factual accuracy.

Gouldman was an interlocutor along with the 2nd-century grammarian Hesychius in one of the satirical dialogues of William King. "Gouldman" chides the ancient lexicographer for boasting of the attention he receives from pedants, pointing out that philological learnedness has little value for the man of action.Levine, The Battle of the Books p. 104.

Ochsenheimer was an excellent character actor and was compared with Iffland for his facial expression and his pronunciation. In the roles of villains he is said to have been of staggering impact, and excellent as old fogies and pedants. Among his crowning achievements were Gottl. Koke in Parteiwut, Wurm in Kabale und Liebe or Marinelli in Emilia Galotti.

In 1951 Foote married Eleanor McCaig, from the Stranraer region, whom he had met in the Far East during World War II when she was a nurse. She died in 2006. They had two daughters and a son. He enjoyed walking and bell-ringing, and participated until 2008 in a reading group that took its name, the Orðhenglar ("Pedants"), from his insistence on correct Icelandic.

98 Robert Schumann published a detailed rebuttal of one of Fétis' attacks on Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in his own Neue Zeitschrift für Musik journal. In writing reviews, Berlioz was able to indulge himself in attacking his bêtes noires and extolling his enthusiasms. The former included musical pedants, coloratura writing and singing, viola players who were merely incompetent violinists, inane libretti, and baroque counterpoint.Wright Roberts (I), pp.

The Guardian (UK). Retrieved on 20 October 2007. Schopenhauer privately rebutted Samuel Johnson, saying: "The man Sterne is worth 1,000 Pedants and commonplace-fellows like Dr. J."Bridgwater, Patrick (1988) Arthur Schopenhauer's English schooling, pp. 352–53 The young Karl Marx was a devotee of Tristram Shandy, and wrote a still-unpublished short humorous novel, Scorpion and Felix, that was obviously influenced by Sterne's work.

Retrieved 19 October 2018. Although he complained – both privately and sometimes in his articles – that his time would be better spent writing music than in writing music criticism, he was able to indulge himself in attacking his bêtes noires and extolling his enthusiasms. The former included musical pedants, coloratura writing and singing, viola players who were merely incompetent violinists, inane libretti, and baroque counterpoint.

Another satirical writer of the first half of the 18th century was Giuseppe Baretti of Turin. In a journal called the Frusta letteraria he mercilessly criticized the works then being published in Italy. He had learnt much by travelling; his long stay in Britain had contributed to the independent character of his mind. The Frusta was the first book of independent criticism directed particularly against the Arcadians and the pedants.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. p. 281. Not a little of Gellert's fame is due to the time when he lived and wrote. The German literature of the period was dominated by Gottsched's school. A band of high-spirited youths, of whom Gellert was one, resolved to free themselves from what were seen as the conventional trammels of such pedants, and began a revolution which was finally consummated by Schiller and Goethe.

The village has allotments,Coleby Allotments , Retrieved 10 July 2013 but no shops or public houses, and its telephone box was removed in 2008. Public Transport is provided by Stagecoach Lincolnshire and subsidised by North Lincolnshire Council.Bus Service Operators Grant , citation for the pedants Internet is delivered by ADSL through underground, waxed-paper insulated copper wires that were laid by the GPO in 1955. FTTC is not yet available because the cabinet is too far away.

Failing to find guidance from either his professors, the religious leaders on campus, or the writings of modern philosophers, he declared them all "blind leaders of the blind" and "hair-splitting pedants." It was soon thereafter that Bell made the acquaintance of an Anglo-Catholic priest who oversaw a nearby parish. Though he was initially uncomfortable with the high church vestments and traditions, the priest > had a winsomeness that came from inner peace. He did not bother much to > argue with me.

Only the intervention of the pope's brother, Don Marco Chigi, saved him from this humiliation. Eventually, Rosa was convinced of the need to offer an explanation of the picture; he did this under the rubric of Manifesto and, according to art writer James Elmes, "proved that his hogs were not churchmen, his mules pretending pedants, his asses Roman nobles, and his birds and beasts of prey, the reigning despots of Italy." An earlier painting of Fortune was undertaken by Rosa during the 1640s.

Doctor Akakia (French: Histoire du Docteur Akakia et du Natif de St Malo) is a satirical book of a very biting nature by Voltaire, directed against pretentious pedants of science in the person of Maupertuis, the President of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. It so excited the anger of Frederick the Great, the patron of the Academy, that he ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman, after 30,000 copies of it had been sold in Paris.

Similarly, Florio returned the compliment by introducing the figure of Bruno, "Il Nolano" (from Nola near Naples), in Second Fruits (1591). He portrayed him lounging on a window-seat, leafing through a book and poking fun at his friend John for taking too much time over getting dressed in the morning. The portrait painted by Florio is undoubtedly that of a friend. Bruno surely appears in his pages in a positive light, like a satirical and healthy whip of pedants.

He has also successfully overclocked a lemon, enjoys the life of a petty supervillain in the guise of the Chaos Pope, and is a member of the International League of Pedants. Phillip is known as "The Programmer" in many prophecies, and he is to save the universe from ending on December 12, 2012. ; Toothgnip : The Goat of the title, although actually something of a minor player of late. Was one of Thor's chariot-pulling goats, and his name was created during a drunken conversation about Norse mythology.

Marain is the Culture's shared constructed language. The Culture believes the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis that language influences thought, and Marain was designed by early Minds to exploit this effect, while also "appealing to poets, pedants, engineers and programmers". Designed to be represented either in binary or symbol-written form, Marain is also regarded as an aesthetically pleasing language by the Culture. The symbols of the Marain alphabet can be displayed in three-by-three grids of binary (yes/no, black/white) dots and thus correspond to nine-bit wide binary numbers.

But the lower part of earrings – pedant changed to different forms. Moon like earrings which appeared at the end of the first period, in the 1st century BC, are considered more primitive jewelry items and were broadly spread in the second period, especially in the 1st and 2nd centuries. Golden earring, which were found in Kalagya village of Ismayilli rayon in 1938, by V.A.Pakhomov are dated back to the beginning of our era. Earrings with pedants consisted of four poured grains located in pyramidal shape of the 3rd-1st centuries BC, which were found in Yaloylutepe in 1951, are also very interesting.

A few years later, in 1585, two Florentine pedants of the Crusca Academy declared war against the Gerusalemme. They loaded it with insults, which seem to those who read their pamphlets now mere parodies of criticism. Yet Tasso felt bound to reply; and he did so with a moderation and urbanity which prove him to have been not only in full possession of his reasoning faculties, but a gentleman of noble manners also. The man, like Hamlet, was distraught through ill-accommodation to his circumstances and his age; brain-sick he was undoubtedly; and this is the Duke of Ferrara's justification for the treatment he endured.

Gleeson White wrote of Caldecott: G. K. Chesterton wrote in a Caldecott picture book that he presented to a young friend: :This is the sort of book we like : (For you and I are very small), :With pictures stuck in anyhow, : And hardly any words at all. : . . . :You will not understand a word : Of all the words, including mine; :Never you trouble; you can see, : And all directness is divine— :Stand up and keep your childishness: : Read all the pedants’ screeds and strictures; :But don’t believe in anything : That can’t be told in coloured pictures.Alfred George Gardiner, "Prophets, Priests and Kings", Alston Rivers Ltd.

The media historian James Chapman identifies a divide between the fans of the Bond films and those who focus on the Fleming books. He quotes oppositional views. Anthony Burgess wrote that "It is time for aficionados of the films to get back to the books and admire their quality as literature" and the authors of a fan history wrote that "We seek to reclaim Bond from the humourless Fleming pedants who view Bond as fixed, immutable, an unalterable period antiquity." Another divide is identified by Mark Duffett, who sees the books' readership as a function of the expectations they had already acquired; some approached them as romance novels and others as spy thrillers.

While using German as a working language in the army and with his administration, Frederick read and wrote his literary works in French and also generally used that language with his closest relatives or friends. Though he had a good command of this language, his writing style was flawed; he had troubles with its orthography and always had to rely on French proofreaders. Frederick disliked the German language and literature, explaining that German authors "pile parenthesis upon parenthesis, and often you find only at the end of an entire page the verb on which depends the meaning of the whole sentence". He discarded many Baroque era authors as uncreative pedants and especially despised German theatre.

In the poem, Campbell vowed to, "flaunt Truth: :Before the senile owl-roosts of our youth :Whom monkeys' glands seem powerless to restore, :As Birth Control was profitless before, :Which sponsored by their mockery of a Church, :Like stranded barbels, left them in the lurch, :Whose only impact on the world's affairs, :Has been to cause a boom in Rubber shares, :Who come to battle with both arms held up :And ask to be invited home to sup - :While back at home, to sound their battle-horn, :Some self-aborted pedants stray forlorn :And pity those who venture to be born." James Matthew Wilson (2016), The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking, Wiseblood Books. Pages 16-17.

By the 1870s, it had become a matter of serious concern. In the Ionian Islands, always less impressed by the social status of Katharevousa, Andreas Laskaratos wrote in 1872 that "the logiόtatoi [pedants], the enemies of the nation, while pretending to speak to the nation in a language better than its own, are speaking and writing in a language that the nation does not understand, [with the result that] it remains untutored, ignorant and barbarous, and consequently betrayed by them". Translated in Mackridge 2009 p.194. A decade later in Athens, among the logiόtatoi, even the young Georgios Hatzidakis (newly appointed assistant professor of linguistics at Athens University, and later to become Katharevousa's greatest defender) had come to recognize the problem.

There are some very interesting ideas." – Colin Waters, The Sunday Heraldilgarrulo, In Praise of the Garrulous , Retrieved 21 March 2013 : :"Weaving effortlessly from classical literature to the modern day, In Praise of the Garrulous takes language back from the domain of the pedants and reinstates our proudest achievement at the heart of human society" – Lesley RiddochWord Power Books, Allan Cameron launches his new book, In Praise of the Garrulous, in Edinburgh, Scotland , Retrieved 21 March 2013 : :"This is a brilliant tour de force, in space and in time, into the origins of language, speech and the word. From the past to the present you are left with strong doubts about the Idea of Progress and our superiority as a modern, indeed at times post-modern, society over the previous generations.

The "rose of temperaments" (Temperamentenrose), an earlier study (1798/9) by Goethe and Schiller, matching twelve colours to human occupations or their character traits (tyrants, heroes, adventurers, hedonists, lovers, poets, public speakers, historians, teachers, philosophers, pedants, rulers), grouped in the four temperaments. Goethe also included aesthetic qualities in his colour wheel, under the title of "allegorical, symbolic, mystic use of colour" (Allegorischer, symbolischer, mystischer Gebrauch der Farbe), establishing a kind of color psychology. He associated red with the "beautiful", orange with the "noble", yellow to the "good", green to the "useful", blue to the "common", and violet to the "unnecessary". These six qualities were assigned to four categories of human cognition, the rational (Vernunft) to the beautiful and the noble (red and orange), the intellectual (Verstand) to the good and the useful (yellow and green), the sensual (Sinnlichkeit) to the useful and the common (green and blue) and, closing the circle, imagination (Phantasie) to both the unnecessary and the beautiful (purple and red).

He left out the dual number, and the logical connectives for and therefore, as being too far from modern usage; and in yet another compromise, he admitted that the public were not yet ready for the ancient negative particle , while also recommending that the demotic equivalent should be avoided, thus leaving his followers with no easy way of writing not. The proposal drew an immediate counter-attack from Soutsos' bitter academic rival Konstantinos Asopios: The Soutseia, or Mr Panagiotis Soutsos scrutinized as a Grammarian, Philologist, Schoolmaster, Metrician and Poet. After pointing out errors and solecisms in Soutsos' own language, Asopios went on to defend Korais' general 'simplifying' approach, but with the addition of his own selection of archaisms. The exchange sparked a small war of pamphlets from other pedants, competing to expose inconsistencies, grammatical errors and phrases literally translated from French in the works of their rivals, and proposing their own alternative sets of rules.

In Praise of Folly starts off with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants. Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus' own chastising voice. The essay ends with a straightforward statement of Christian ideal: "No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side." Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in the first edition, a copy owned by Erasmus himself (Kupferstichkabinett, Basel) Erasmus was a good friend of More, with whom he shared a taste for dry humor and other intellectual pursuits.