pedantry

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His pedantry is cut by acidic wit and compressed emotion.

From New York Times

Theirs were no abstract arguments, rife with futile, disputatious pedantry over whether to call themselves Mrs. or Ms. — feminism “from the neck up,” as King calls it.

From Washington Post

While Wilkinson, typically, replied “children” to a question about what he used to teach, the current Leeds manager has elevated press conference pedantry to new heights.

From The Guardian

Emails that start by recognising how it’s “important to preserve pedantry at a time of national crisis” are always going to raise a smile.

From The Guardian

But there is, as David Cleary put it, very clearly a reassuring desire to use “pedantry as a distraction in these worrying times,” so there were a LOT of emails about the soccer/football schism.

From New York Times