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Jonson's; while Jonson was frequently pedantic and complicated, Herrick is almost always clear, writing in language that is at times almost effortlessly ...

The Italian nobility, meanwhile, viewed Adrian as a pedantic foreign professor and who was blind to the beauty of classical antiquity. Musicians ...

is false. Wealthy, he is often played as pedantic, miserly, and hopelessly unsuccessful with women. He usually talks constantly about a topic ...

style. He adopted Ubu's ridiculous and pedantic figures of speech; for example, he referred to himself using the royal we and called the wind ...

Thinkery is populated by starving students and pedantic scoundrels, foremost is Socrates' associate Chaerephon. After demonstrating a few of his ...

Grillparzer was born in Vienna. His father, severe, pedantic, a staunch upholder of the liberal traditions of the reign of Joseph II, was an ...

the next year by Every Man Out of His Humour, a pedantic attempt to imitate Aristophanes. It is not known whether this was a success on stage, but when ...

It is a common and pedantic misconception that counterpoint is defined by these five species, and therefore anything that does not follow the ...

*Criticisms to their pedantic elitism were captured in Georg Lukács's phrase "Grand Hotel Abyss" as a syndrome he imputed to ...

” and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. Octopi derives from the mistaken notion that octōpūs is a second declension Latin noun ...

learned to play the cello with ease, but the pedantic severity of Mattei's views on counterpoint only drove the youngster toward a freer school ...

casual literature to the philosophical and pedantic Four Books that were considered staples of a classical Chinese education. Although highly intelligent ...

years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer during the nineteenth century, and largely forgotten during the twentieth ...

at the end, such as MPs, and may appear dated or pedantic. The argument that initialisms should have no different plural form (for example, "If ...

skills, narrowly focused interests, and wordy, pedantic communication. They may still require significant support in some areas of their lives. ...

Balmont as "accurate, punctual, pedantic and never slovenly... Such accuracy made Balmont a very welcome client," he added. ...

The detail of his speech borders on the pedantic, a common mark of all his extant works, and he goes into long digressions on related matters ...