Sentence examples for a pedantic academic from inspiring English sources

I'm not a pedantic academic".

And then there was her brilliant description of people interested in lexicography as "fusty, dry, pedantic academics".

It's a strange, pedantic finish to an otherwise sophisticated piece of writing.

A pedantic sentimentalist who wandered into movies, perhaps.

Elegantly conceived, the plan nonetheless makes going to the villa feel like a pedantic cultural exercise.

(Even if Republicans see him, as Politico's Glenn Thrush wrote, as "a pedantic, hectoring fuss-budget").

They introduce a visually inert dimension and force a pedantic reference to Asian antiquity.

He is not a pedantic man, and his attitude surprised me.

In Fielding, a pedantic doctor or lawyer speaks like a pedantic doctor or lawyer: his pedantry is professionally bound up with his occupation.

Ours," says a Palestinian academic.

Before he became speaker, Mr. Bercow was already known for bringing a pedantic streak to Parliamentary debates.