hair-splitting
Example Sentences
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In his written judgement, Mr Justice Knowles said the grounds on which the panel had rejected the judge's application for relocation amounted to "semantic hair-splitting".
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024
VOA’s stance has led to some intricate hair-splitting.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023
And so, after all the parsing and hair-splitting, we come to the heartfelt, rough-hewn denials.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023
The court’s hair-splitting exercise illustrates what one judge called an “Escherian Stairwell.”
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2021
Armed with the hair-splitting weapons of Byzantine theology, which they soon learned to use only too well, the Arabs proceeded to try their edge on the dogmas of Islam.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
