Word: pedanticism
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Franklin's other edits were less felicitous. He changed Jefferson's "reduce them to arbitrary power" to "reduce them under absolute despotism," and he took out the literary flourish in Jefferson's "invade and deluge us in blood" to make it more sparse: "invade and destroy us." And a few...
Green hopes his visual style contributes to the play’s effect. “What I’m trying to do is give the piece enough visual weight to carry the message of the play without using lots of heavy-handed pedantic techniques.”
The pedantic Jospin, 64, is a dyed-in-the-wool socialist apparatchik who is particularly proud of having restricted the hours the French can work to 35 a week. He was already first secretary of the Socialist Party when it first held power way back in 1981. He says that...
“Finagel A Bagel is pedantic drivel... as opposed to Bruegger’s, which I found rather stimulating and fun,” said Matthew S. Burr ’03.
But what of it? Surely we can forgive the professor’s preference for working on projects like cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal’s prison meditations (1997’s Death Blossoms). After all, Cornel West is a genius—“one of the...