Sentence examples similar to pedantic knowledge from inspiring English sources
She skilfully displayed technical knowledge of her dossiers, without however getting pedantic Hillary-style.
After a brief, failed attempt to get Bush to concede that he would not necessarily intervene abroad even to prevent genocide, Gore essentially gave up trying to draw sharp distinctions with his opponent, apparently reasoning that deploying his immensely superior knowledge of the world might make him seem pedantic rather than seasoned.
Without being pedantic about it, Mr. Spitzer also enhanced the show with his scholar's knowledge, for instance explaining after Dr. John's cover of "Junco Partner" how its syncopation grew out of inmates' work songs at the Angola state prison in Louisiana and was called the "jailbird beat".
I'll refrain from attacking basic firearm knowledge in an effort to disguise myself as civil, so my point will become less pedantic.
Mr. Keegan's vast knowledge about the history of war ornaments "The American Civil War," but it can lead to pedantic asides.
Was he pedantic and sentimental?
She could be pedantic, too.
Then came volumes of pedantic laws.
