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How to use pedantically in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pedantically? Here are some examples.

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We tend to become either pedantically descriptive or abstractly emotive, or both.
Kerry makes this last ridiculous point pedantically, as if it's at the very core of what really matters.
So I'm watching the movie with the careful eye of one who knows the book and will be judging it pedantically.
Welding punked-out, ska, psycho-rap backfilled with wailing metal dirges, Bad Acid Trip surge pedantically from whimsical to venomous in one foul breath.
As far as I am concerned, I have applied our existing rules this afternoon calmly and as pedantically as possible.
He is pedantically correct, but The Economist is fair in attributing it to him.
Whenever any important motif appears, he points it up almost pedantically.
Sermons preached about economic matters all too often come across as dry, dead propositions pedantically presented to provide proof that we are living the wrong way.
Although Maria Theresa pedantically supervised her children's upbringing and education, she was to experience many disappointments in connection with them.
Examples from Classical Literature
Neither pedantically correct, nor too lax, they revivify the period so that the actors are more important than the accessories.
Whether he was pedantically profound in the law or not might be an open question.
It belonged to Conrad Wolfhardt, who pedantically translated his family name into Lycosthenes.
Designers were constrained to work in the pedantically archaeological manner prescribed by architectural fashion.
To Edwarda he was polite and kind, often fatherly, and pedantically instructive, as he had been so many times before.
Grant that it may be, and often is, mechanically or pedantically pursued.
This speech, pedantically delivered, probably seemed to Monsieur Roguin so fine that his hearer could not at once understand it.
The second Carrie largely coasts along, pedantically imitating the first film in modern dress.
Pedantically you'd note how Saul appears to carry two pairs of glasses with him, and on top of that Aileen's suicide is incredibly contrived.
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