As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical
Quotes about pedantic (11 Quotes)
Get but that peace of God which passeth understanding, and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
It's a good read, ... I was determined not to do a how-to book in a pedantic way. There are a lot of lessons in there that could be of value to people.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
If, when making reference to a larger musical grouping, you say orchestra, you can readily expect that they will seek to correct you and let you know that it's really a big band. Continued insistence over the years has only served to make those people think you are being pedantic.
What a liberal confounding of those pedantic distinctions of meum and tuum or rather what a noble simplification of language
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact I will ever say pedantic observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.