Sentence examples for hair-splitting from inspiring English sources

Clegg's hair-splitting sounded a bit shifty.

5.02pm: Some diplomatic hair-splitting here.

That philosophical hair-splitting is tendentious evidence for such a damning judgment.

There isn't room for hair-splitting when it comes to the Jedwabne massacre.

Thomistic hair-splitting is out, at least for the moment; illustration is in.

Democratic leaders asked the president to stop his legal hair-splitting and talk with candour.

Listen carefully and you could hear the sound of one hair splitting.

Distinctions between coup support and other covert actions may strike some as hair splitting.

That legal dispute has highlighted the Obama administration's hair splitting over the sensitive issue of contraceptive policy.

However, we confirmed money exchanged hands here, so it's a bit of hair splitting on Microsoft's part.

Some will say that all of this is nothing other than typical social science hair splitting.