Sentence examples for nitpick from inspiring English sources

"It would be churlish of me to whinge and nitpick.

"A budget for the makers, and the doers and the savers," he said, although it would have been more accurate to say "the makers, doers, savers and gamblers", but let's not nitpick.

They also see Benedict's role in the follow-up event as a dangerous lurch towards syncretism (the heretical idea of blending religions).Such disputes dispirit those who want the church to look outward and upward, not nitpick over the past.

IF YOU have produced what you think is a great work of art, it is galling when spectators nitpick over minor details and ignore the grand design.

The recession forced corporate America to look hard for savings, and the people who were being paid hundreds of dollars an hour to nitpick were an obvious target.

Why nitpick about where it's played, and who can listen to it?

But that is to nitpick at a series which is educational (how Welles was influenced by Shakespeare, the Medicis and his own corpulence); entertaining (why people believed Gun Crazy's two leads really had robbed a bank); and gossipy (the director Stanley Donen's hatred of Busby Berkeley choreography).

"And I'm going to stand here with the Founding Fathers, who wrote in the preamble, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' " Not to nitpick, but this is not the preamble to the Constitution.

A few episodes in, I had a similar reaction: this show is just too juicy, and too bold, to nitpick.

I nitpick details.

Soon enough, however, they began to nitpick.