Word: pedanticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Darryl Zanuck's interest in history generally and the U. S. gaslight era particularly is by no means pedantic. Nonetheless, if nothing that happens in This Is My Affair, from Lieutenant Perry's correspondence with McKinley to the scandal which he unearths, can be readily substantiated, the...
Hammond--Excellent in field of Roman History--slightly pedantic in lectures good, although strict tutor--very busy man, and therefore frequently inaccessible
Jackson--one of the best scholars of the department, a good teacher and lecturer, but slightly pedantic and at times out of touch with his classes.
"Get out of the picture, you louse. You have not been a workingman for 30 years. Either stop your movement against a progressive action or you will not only be killed but tortured to make you human." This remarkable threat, scrawled anonymously on the stationery of a Houston, Tex. hotel...
Especially effective was the scene representing the prophet in the whale's belly. The huge mammal immediately proceeds to talk into his own stomach and in a pedantic tone of voice offers poor Jonah the benefit of innumerable intellectual tidbits.