It may seem pedantic to harp on what looks like mere procedure, but this is one case where the process is the forest. Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker, 29 May 2000Yet not since Kenneth Roberts has anyone written of early New England life in such vivid and convincing detail. (The minor inaccuracies will stir only the pedantic.) Annie Proulx, New York Times Book Review, 28 Apr. 1991What I'm objecting to is that picture books are judged from a particular, pedantic point of view vis-à-vis their relation to children—and I insist that a picture book is much more. Maurice Sendak, Caldecott & Co., 1988She is looking for the will, or for the diary; always looking for herself in history, the self the pious, pedantic Tolstoyans would disinherit and deny. … Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in Manhattan and Other Essays, (1962) 1984
Recent Examples on the WebIn more recent years, as the expediency of social media brought casual flair to the niceties of grammar, syntax and punctuation, Fuhrmann was neither fussy nor pedantic. Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 My dreams today are pretty pedantic, kind of boring. David Marchese, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022 In contrast, al-Zawahri was notoriously prickly and pedantic. Matthew Lee, Nomaan Merchant And Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022 The toppling of the pedantic figurehead notorious for his dull speeches, could provide an opening for a more charismatic new leader who could help al-Qaeda regain its stature atop the global Islamist movement. Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022 The cultural changes appear aimed at stamping out pedantic data analyses that have slowed and hampered the agency's public health responses. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022 In contrast, al-Zawahri was notoriously prickly and pedantic. Matthew Lee, Nomaan Merchant And Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022 In contrast, al-Zawahri was notoriously prickly and pedantic. Matthew Lee, Nomaan Merchant And Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022 In contrast, al-Zawahri was notoriously prickly and pedantic. Matthew Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022 See More